World Health Organisation chief voices alarm over rising infectious diseases in Gaza

On Friday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), said he was "very concerned" regarding the escalating threat of infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip.

"As people continue to be massively displaced across the south of Gaza, with some families forced to move multiple times and many sheltering in overcrowded health facilities, my WHO colleagues and I remain very concerned about the increasing threat of infectious diseases," Tedros said on X.