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Assault on Gaza’s Rafah would be an ‘unfathomable catastrophe’: WHO

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 World Health Organisation has warned that an Israeli military  assault on Rafah in southern Gaza would result in “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.

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