Global medical authorities comment on the Gaza Genocide

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WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in his opening remarks at the Executive Board of the World Health Organization yesterday that he did understand the anger, grief and fear of the people of Gaza, who had already “suffered through 16 years of blockade, and are now enduring the destruction of their families, their homes, their communities and the life they knew.”


Serious Trauma Cases are pouring into Gaza Hospitals but there is not much that can be done for the patients because supplies have run out.

“Since the 7th of October, WHO has verified more than 449 attacks on healthcare in Gaza and the West Bank, and 60 attacks on healthcare in Israel, he said, adding that “healthcare should never be a target,” said Dr. Tedros.

“I also grieve the loss of more than 100 of our UN colleagues in Gaza, including our own Dima Alhaj, who was killed alongside her six-month old son, her husband and her two brothers.”

Serious Trauma Cases are pouring into Gaza Hospitals but there is not much that can be done for the patients because supplies have run out. Photo submitted by Behar Abbasi. Art, cropping, enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine

The WHO Executive Board resolution calls on Dr. Tedros to report on the public health implications of the crisis; strengthen technical and material assistance, and to strengthen partnerships with other care providers.

“But I must be frank with you: these tasks are almost impossible in the current circumstances,” Dr. Tedros lamented.

He applauded the UN Secretary General’s invocation of the powerful emergency tool Article 99 of the UN Charter last week, and António Guterres’s call for a humanitarian ceasefire, saying it was “the only way to truly protect and promote the health of the people of Gaza.”

Dr. Tedros expressed deep regret that the Security Council was unable to adopt a resolution on such a ceasefire last Friday.

North American Medical professionals are also speaking out about the Gaza Genocide

Dr. Ben THompson speaks out in a press conference this week.