WHO Official Pleas for Gaza's Southern Hospitals to Be Spared

Palestinians run for cover next to covered bodies after an Israeli airstrike near the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on November 22, 2023. (Photo by Mohammad AHMAD / AFP)

A World Health Organization official said on Tuesday that only 11, or less than a third, of Gaza's hospitals remain partially functional and pleaded for them to remain intact, Reuters said.
"In just 66 days the health system has gone from 36 functional hospitals to 11 partially functional hospitals - one in the north and 10 in the south," Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told a UN press briefing by videolink from Gaza.
"We cannot afford to lose any health care facilities or hospitals," he said. "We hope, we plea that this will not happen."