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WHO lost contact with its staff in the Gaza Strip

It was announced by the director general of the organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The organization Doctors Without Borders reported a similar problem. Several media reported that telephone and internet services had stopped working in the enclave.

  • 28/10/2023 • 09:00

The World Health Organization (WHO), like other United Nations agencies, lost all contact with its staff in the Gaza Strip, the organization's director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced this Saturday. On Friday night, several media outlets reported that telephone and internet services had stopped working in the enclave, the target of unprecedented bombings by the Israeli Army that arose in response to an also unusual offensive carried out by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. on October 7 on Israeli territory, with a toll of some 1,400 dead and the capture of more than two hundred hostages. "We have lost contact with our staff in Gaza, with health facilities, health workers and the rest of our humanitarian partners on the ground," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on his X social media account regarding the situation in the enclave. where the Hamas Government has confirmed the death of more than 7,300 people in the three weeks since the Israeli attacks, considered war crimes by the UN.