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WHO delivers first medical aid to Gaza since March 2

AFP | Geneva

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The World Health Organization said yesterday that it had delivered its first medical shipment into Gaza since March 2, adding though that the nine truckloads were “a drop in the ocean”.

Wednesday’s shipment of supplies, plasma and blood will be distributed among hospitals in the Palestinian territory in the coming days, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

Israel imposed a total blockade on the Gaza Strip on March 2.

More than two months later, it began allowing some food in, but no other aid items until now.

Medical supplies

Tedros said nine trucks carrying essential medical supplies, 2,000 units of blood and 1,500 units of plasma were delivered via the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel, “without any looting incident, despite the high-risk conditions along the route”. “These supplies will be distributed to priority hospitals in the coming days,” Tedros said.

“The blood and plasma were delivered to Nasser Medical Complex’s cold storage facility for onward distribution to hospitals facing critical shortages, amid a growing influx of injuries, many linked to incidents at food distribution sites.”

Only 17 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are partially functional.