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WHO Says 9,000 Patients Need Emergency Evacuation From Gaza

Violent ground combat has been underway for weeks, sometimes around Gaza's hospitals (Credit: AFP)

Some 9,000 patients in the Gaza Strip require evacuation for emergency care, with the war-torn Palestinian territory down to just 10 barely functioning hospitals, the head of the WHO said Saturday.

"With only 10 hospitals minimally functional across the whole of #Gaza, thousands of patients continue to be deprived of health care," World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X.

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