NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that he was “shocked and saddened by the loss of lives” after the Israeli attacks on Al Mawasi in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip that killed 78 people and injured 294.
Guterres underlined once again that there must be an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, with all hostages released “immediately and unconditionally.”
Meantime, in a post on X, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that 134 “severely injured people” had been admitted to the nearby Nasser Medical Complex “which is extremely overwhelmed by the influx”.
WHO staffers are at the hospital along with two emergency medical teams helping to treat the injured, he continued.
“We have dispatched 50 foldable beds and 50 stretchers to increase the hospital’s capacity while our prepositioned medicines and trauma supplies are being used to save lives,” Adhanom said.
