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(104,322 posts) Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:42 AM Jul 22

WHO says Israeli forces hit its staff residence and main warehouse in Gaza [View all]

Source: The Guardian

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said the Israeli military attacked its staff residence and main warehouse in Deir al-Balah on Monday, compromising its operations in Gaza.

The WHO said its staff residence was attacked three times, with airstrikes causing a fire and extensive damage, and endangering staff and their families, including children.
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“Israeli military entered the premises, forcing women and children to evacuate on foot toward al-Mawasi amid active conflict. Male staff and family members were handcuffed, stripped, interrogated on the spot, and screened at gunpoint,” the WHO said.

Two WHO staff and two family members were detained, it said in a post on X. It said three were later released, while one staff member remained in detention. Its director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “WHO demands the immediate release of the detained staff and protection of all its staff.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/21/who-says-residence-and-main-warehouse-in-gaza-hit-by-israeli-forces

Plus:

Gaza is 'hell on earth' with doctors fainting from hunger, UN warns, as 1,000 estimated to have been killed seeking food

The head of the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency said on Tuesday that its staff members as well as doctors and humanitarian workers are fainting on duty due to hunger and exhaustion, Reuters reports.

Unrwa commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement, shared by his spokesperson at a press briefing in Geneva:

Caretakers, including UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, are also in need of care now, doctors, nurses, journalists, humanitarians, among them, UNRWA staff are hungry. Many are now fainting due to hunger and exhaustion while performing their duties.
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In a post on X on Monday, Unrwa said that shortages in the Palestinian territory had caused food prices to increase by 40 times, while the aid stockpiled in its warehouses outside Gaza could feed “the entire population for over three months.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/22/israel-gaza-war-latest-live-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-687f54bb8f08e43d99bdab25#block-687f54bb8f08e43d99bdab25

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WHO says Israeli forces hit its staff residence and main warehouse in Gaza [View all] muriel_volestrangler Jul 22 OP

The WHO must evacuate women and children out of an active combat zone. Irish_Dem Jul 22 #1

The WHO is an international health organization, and authoritarian armies don't get to order it around muriel_volestrangler Jul 22 #2

The WHO is being bombed. They need to get the staff families out now. Irish_Dem Jul 22 #3

Yes, Israel BOMBED the WHO and UN. AloeVera Jul 23 #27

The world has been quite naive and foolish to trust vicious, ruthless psychopath leaders. Irish_Dem Jul 24 #32

It's a war zone. WHO needs not to be ordered to take the obvious precautions. Beastly Boy Jul 22 #13

If that paragraph were relevant, then you would be calling the IDF the agent of Hamas muriel_volestrangler Jul 22 #15

Your logic is incomprehensible. Beastly Boy Jul 22 #16

" the treatment accorded to them by its agents" - the treatment here is the bombing and arrests muriel_volestrangler Jul 22 #17

Huh? Beastly Boy Jul 22 #18

Very slowly - for those to whom logic is a new concept muriel_volestrangler Jul 22 #21

Another false presumption Beastly Boy Jul 22 #22

Unbelievable. (nt) muriel_volestrangler Jul 22 #23

The things you discover when reading the whole thing! Beastly Boy Jul 22 #24

Because the IDF detained them! It released all but 1, that one is in the custody of the IDF. Per the article. Eko Jul 23 #29

LOL. ForgoTheConsequence Jul 23 #31

Jeeze, did you even read it? Eko Jul 23 #28

Is there no way to stop Netanyahu? democrank Jul 22 #4

good question...no one can deny that this is crazy Vthestate Jul 22 #6

If a nation or group of nations moniss Jul 22 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author Ken Dayenu Jul 22 #12

I don't believe that the US will moniss Jul 22 #19

Post removed Post removed Jul 22 #20

Wow. So much truth and facts here, all in one place! AloeVera Jul 23 #30

Release the hostages. Disarm Hamas. Everyone knows how to stop Netanyahu. Beastly Boy Jul 22 #14

reporting like this happens too much to be fabrication Vthestate Jul 22 #5

To my understanding it is illegal for the mjvpi Jul 23 #26

Bibi seems to have forgotten BlueMTexpat Jul 22 #7

Okay atreides1 Jul 22 #8

He's not worried, krasnov is in on the scheme to kill/remove forcibly every Palestinian so he can build a tower. lark Jul 22 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author Ken Dayenu Jul 22 #10

Great point Scott Alan Swaggerty Jul 23 #25