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More than 1,000 patients person died portion waiting for urgent aesculapian evacuation from war-ravaged Gaza successful the past twelvemonth and a half, the World Health Organization said connected Friday (December 19, 2025).
WHO main Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said connected X that the UN bureau and its partners had "evacuated implicit 10,600 patients from Gaza with terrible wellness conditions, including implicit 5,600 children" since the commencement of the warfare much than 2 years ago.
But helium warned that "many much patients stay successful Gaza awaiting evacuation to person due healthcare".
Citing numbers from the wellness ministry successful Hamas-run Gaza, Tedros said that 1,092 patients were known to person died portion awaiting aesculapian evacuation conscionable betwixt July 2024 and November 28, 2025.
"This fig is apt underreported," helium warned, calling connected "more countries to unfastened doors to patients from Gaza, and for aesculapian evacuation to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, to beryllium restored".
"Lives beryllium connected it."
WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic told reporters successful Geneva connected Friday (December 19) that immoderate 18,500 patients were inactive successful request of attraction extracurricular Gaza, including much than 4,000 children.
A Doctors Without Borders authoritative told AFP earlier this period that the WHO figures notation lone to registered patients, and that the existent fig of radical successful request of urgent evacuation was respective times higher.
"Many of these radical don't person clip to wait," Jasarevic stressed.
Up to December 1, much than 30 countries had taken patients from Gaza, but lone a handful, including Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, had accepted ample numbers.
A U.S.-sponsored ceasefire has halted warring successful Gaza, which began aft Hamas's deadly onslaught connected Israel connected October 7, 2023.
But the deal, successful effect since October 10, remains fragile arsenic Israel and Hamas impeach each different astir regular of violations.
