World Health Organisation has warned that an Israeli military assault on Rafah in southern Gaza would result in a “unfathomable catastrophe” and bring the enclave’s health system closer to collapse. According to Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for Gaza and the West Bank, “military activities in this area, this densely populated area, would be, of course, an unfathomable catastrophe… and would even further expand the humanitarian disaster beyond imagination.” According to Peeperkorn, “it will also increase the burden on an already severely overburdened health system that is on its knees and increase the trauma burden, pushing the health system closer to the brink of collapse.” Just 40% of WHO visits to northern Gaza, he claimed, had been approved since November.