Israel and the World Health Organization (WHO) are engaged in a verbal dispute over an alleged directive for evacuation.
An internet dispute has arisen between the United Nations health organization and Israel following the assertion by the Israeli military that it instructed the WHO to relocate supplies from its storage facility in southern Gaza, a statement Israel has refuted.
The “WHO received notification” from the Israeli forces “that we should remove our supplies from our medical warehouse in southern Gaza within 24 hours, as ground operations will put it beyond use,” its leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X on Monday.
He urged Israel to rescind the directive and implement measures to safeguard infrastructure such as hospitals….[CONTINUE READING HERE]>>
The Israeli military responded on Tuesday, stating that it never issued such a warning. “The truth is that we didn’t ask you to evacuate the warehouses, and we also made it clear [and in writing] to the relevant UN representatives,” COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs, said on X.
“From a UN official we would expect, at least, to be more accurate,” it added.
“This is a social media row that is burning up and we can expect that it will continue to rumble on,” said Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher, reporting from occupied East Jerusalem.
“We can see that the WHO did take this seriously to start moving stuff out of the warehouse,” our correspondent said, adding that the warehouse services 11 hospitals in southern Gaza, and there were concerns among UN officials that the removal of supplies could lead hospitals in the south to become even more overwhelmed.
“This has the possibility of growing into a bigger diplomatic row,” he noted.
The WHO, along with other UN agencies, has consistently called on Israel to limit its use of force to prevent the targeting of civilians and medical facilities in its military campaign in Gaza…[CONTINUE READING HERE]>>
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