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09 February 2025<\/p>\n
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Esteemed Chair, Your Excellencies, Director-General,<\/strong><\/p>\n The suffering in the Gaza Strip is beyond comprehension.<\/p>\n Tens of thousands of people have died, and around 30 000 have life-changing injuries.<\/p>\n The health system is ruined.<\/p>\n Malnutrition is rising. The risk of famine persists.<\/p>\n Families are returning to devastated neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n Almost no health facilities remain intact.<\/p>\n Our only comfort lies in the courage, dedication and resilience of the people and health workers.<\/p>\n Despite unimaginable challenges, health workers are maintaining health services with minimal resources.<\/p>\n They continue to serve even after enduring personal losses and while living with the trauma of the horrors they have seen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Excellencies,<\/strong><\/p>\n We are doing all we can to alleviate the suffering.<\/p>\n During this ceasefire, our top priority is to restore essential health services and get health facilities operational.<\/p>\n We continue to deliver medical supplies, fuel hospitals, respond to outbreaks and evacuate patients \u2013 all while navigating severe access constraints.<\/p>\n Supporting mental health is at the heart of our response.<\/p>\n We are ready to scale up our response.<\/p>\n But we urgently need systematic and sustained access to the population across Gaza, and we need an end to restrictions on the entry of essential supplies.<\/p>\n Equally critical is protecting civilians and health-care workers, expediting the evacuation of patients in urgent need of specialized care, and strengthening the referral system to East Jerusalem and the West Bank.<\/p>\n We also need massively increased funding both to meet immediate health needs and to begin restoring the health system.<\/p>\n In closing, I call to all parties to honour their commitments. Implement the ceasefire agreement in full and work towards a political solution to this protracted crisis.<\/p>\n Such a solution is essential for lasting peace and the dignity of those who have suffered for far too long.<\/p>\n Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 09 February 2025 Esteemed Chair, Your Excellencies, Director-General, The suffering in the Gaza Strip is beyond comprehension. Tens of thousands of people have died, and around 30 000 have life-changing injuries. The health system is ruined. Malnutrition is rising. The risk of famine persists. Families are returning to devastated neighbourhoods. Almost no health […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2637,1338],"document-source":[2529],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,2265,2005,2533],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-305659","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-remarks","document-category-statement","document-source-world-health-organization-who","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-ceasefire","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/305659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/305659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305662,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/305659\/revisions\/305662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=305659"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=305659"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=305659"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=305659"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=305659"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=305659"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=305659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}