WHO chief says too few countries willing to take in Gaza medical evacuees
The WHO has appealed for 15,000 people in Gaza who it says need specialised medical treatment abroad, including 3,800 children.
“The urgent problem we face is that too few countries are willing to receive” the patients, wrote WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a post on X.
“We call for countries to open their arms to these critically ill patients,” he said, adding that 700 of them, including 140 children, have died while waiting for evacuation.
Ghebreyesus also urged Israel to allow patients from Gaza to receive care in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, “where hospitals closer to home can take many patients”.
.@WHO is doing all we can to alleviate suffering, and evacuate those who need urgent medical care outside Gaza.
The urgent problem we face is that too few countries are willing to receive them.
We call for countries to open their arms to these critically ill patients.
We call… pic.twitter.com/zAlknjHPj4
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) September 13, 2025
Israeli forces shoot, injure 16-year-old during West Bank raid
Israeli forces have fired at a 16-year-old Palestinian boy while raiding the Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The Wafa news agency reported, citing the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, that the child was injured in the abdomen.
Elsewhere, Israeli forces carried out a series of raids in Hebron governorate, storming two schools and arresting four people, including a 16-year-old.
Settlers burn houses of Palestinians in Bedouin community
We’re getting reports that Israeli settlers burned the houses of a number of Palestinians in the Bedouin community near the village of Jabaa, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem.
According to local sources, a group of settlers attacked the houses of Palestinians, assaulted them and burned a number of their homes.
The sources added that the Bedouin community in that area is constantly attacked by settlers under the protection of the Israeli forces.
