'Our world desperately needs peace': WHO chief appeals over Gaza war - Video

The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Israel’s intensifying military operations in northern Gaza are fuelling mass displacement and pushing civilians into increasingly dire conditions amid widespread hunger.

“Gaza’s health system continues to be overwhelmed by the influx of mass casualties, limited medical stocks and supplies, and the shortage of medical equipment and blood units,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva on Thursday.

He said the escalation has left traumatised families “forced into an ever-shrinking area as famine persists,” with medical workers struggling to keep hospitals running.

According to Ghebreyesus, the Al-Rantisi Hospital — the only remaining paediatric facility in the enclave — was struck on Wednesday while 80 children were inside. The incident, he said, underscored how escalating violence