WHO condemns attack on Baptist Hospital in Gaza

The World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemned the attack on Al Ahli Baptist Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, which led to the death and injury of hundreds, according to early reports.
"WHO strongly condemns the attack," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus said on the X platform.
"We call for the immediate protection of civilians and healthcare, and for the evacuation orders to be reversed," he added.
For its part, WHO said that the hospital was operating and had patients, medical workers, and displaced people taking shelter there.
The organization said in a press statement that the hospital was one of 20 hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip facing evacuation orders from the Israeli military to evacuate and head south.
WHO stressed that "the order for evacuation has been impossible to carry out given the current insecurity, critical condition of many patients, and lack of ambulances, staff, health system bed capacity, and alternative shelter for those displaced."
The UN stressed that implementing these orders is impossible in light of the lack of security and critical conditions for many patients and the lack of ambulances and alternative shelters for the displaced.