WHO: No Security Guarantee For Delivery Of Aid To Gaza Hospital

The queue of humanitarian assistance vehicles in Rafah. (Twitter/@rowanadel31)

JAKARTA - There is no security guarantee for sending assistance to a number of hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns.

Limited assistance has begun to be sent to the Palestinian territory which was blocked by Israel since last weekend, but the Director of the WHO Regional Emergency for Eastern Mediterranean Rick Brennan warned of the existence of a "high risk" for the sender of assistance.

"We do not have a security guarantee to send assistance to Al-Shifa Hospital or other hospitals in the north," he said, mentioning the name of the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip.

Therefore, the delivery of assistance to the area is currently not possible, said Brennan.

Last week, Israel ordered residents to evacuate from North Gaza.

However, forcing more than one million people to move to the south will cause a humanitarian disaster, said international assistance bodies.

Tens of thousands of residents in northern Gaza, including sick people, elderly, and poor people, were unable to leave the area.

Brennan, WHO spokesman, Jasaravic and Unrwa spokesman Tamara Alrifai could not confirm whether other assistance convoys would be allowed to enter the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

The third convoy consisting of 20 aid trucks entered the rafah crossing from Egypt to Gaza on Monday, according to a Palestinian spokesman.

The United Nations said that the area of Israel's surrounding area requires around 100 aid trucks per day to meet the needs of aid that continues to increase there.

On October 7, Israel launched an endless air strike on Gaza in return for Hamas's attack on Israeli border cities.

Israel also made a total siege of 2.3 million in the region and closed access to the supply of food, fuel and medical supply.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls for "a ceasefire of humanity immediately" to alleviate "great suffering of humanity".

Nearly 6,500 people have died in the conflict, including at least 5,087 Palestinians and more than 1,400 Israelis.