boss "Global health": Israel’s invasion of Rafah may lead to a bloodbath

The Director-General of the World Health Organization warned on Friday that an Israeli military attack on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip “may lead to a bloodbath,” calling for a ceasefire.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on the X platform, “The World Health Organization is deeply concerned that a large-scale military operation in Rafah, Gaza, may lead to a bloodbath and further weaken the already broken health system.”

Currently, the Israeli army continues to bomb the city that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to attack by land “to eliminate” On the last Hamas brigades.

European countries, the United Nations, and the United States, Israel’s main ally, asked Netanyahu to abandon the idea of a ground attack on the city.

In addition to the human losses, the attack will constitute a “strong blow to humanitarian operations throughout the Gaza Strip.” Because the Rafah crossing “is located at the heart of humanitarian operations,” according to what Jens Laerke, spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said on Friday in Geneva.

The organization added The World Health Organization said in a statement that this would also weaken the “already crippled health system,” at a time when only 12 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza are still operating.

The issued statement stated Friday: “The World Health Organization and its partners are working urgently to restore and revive health services, but the crippled health system will not be able to deal with an increase in infections and deaths that may be caused by an incursion into Rafah.”

< p>In Geneva, Rick Pepperkorn, the representative of the World Health Organization in the Palestinian Territories, said that “this emergency plan is just a bandage.”

He added that “the health system The defaulter will not be able to bear the amount of potential destruction that the incursion may cause.