Geneva:

The top of the World Well being Group known as for a ceasefire and a “true answer” to the Israel-Palestinian battle in an emotional plea to the worldwide well being physique’s governing physique on Thursday the place he described situations in Gaza as “hellish”.

WHO Director-Basic Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who lived by way of battle as a toddler and whose personal kids hid in a bunker throughout bombardments in Ethiopia’s 1998-2000 border battle with Eritrea, grew to become emotional describing situations within the bombed-out Gaza enclave the place greater than 25,000 folks have been killed.

“I am a real believer due to my very own expertise that battle does not carry answer, besides extra battle, extra hatred, extra agony, extra destruction. So let’s select peace and resolve this subject politically,” Tedros advised the WHO Government Board in Geneva throughout a dialogue concerning the Gaza well being emergency.

“I believe all of you will have stated the two-state answer and so forth, and hope this battle will finish and transfer into a real answer,” he stated, earlier than breaking down, describing the present state of affairs as “past phrases”.

Israel unleashed its marketing campaign to get rid of Hamas after the operatives burst into Israel on Oct. 7 and killed 1,200 folks, most of them civilians, and took over 200 hostages again to Gaza.

Israel’s ambassador stated Tedros’ feedback represented a “full management failure”.

“The assertion by the director-general was the embodiment of every part that’s improper with WHO since October seventh. No point out of the hostages, the rapes, the homicide of Israelis, nor the militarisation of hospitals and Hamas’ despicable use of human shields,” Meirav Eilon Shahar stated in feedback despatched to Reuters.

She additionally accused the worldwide well being company of “collusion” with Hamas, saying the WHO turned a blind eye to Hamas’ army actions in Gaza hospitals.

In the identical tackle, Tedros warned that extra folks in Gaza would die of hunger and illness.

“If you happen to add all that, I believe it is not straightforward to grasp how hellish the state of affairs is,” he stated.

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