WHO delivers aid, supplies to Gaza hospitals
The World Health Organization said it delivered much-needed aid and supplies to Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza and the Palestine Red Crescent Society's Al-Amal Hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday.
![PHOTO: Palestinians mourn relatives, who were killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, during a mass funeral at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Dec. 25, 2023.](https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/645dd16e-a56d-42a4-a6a7-1fc6c1297eb7/maghazi-refugee-camp-airstrike-1-gty-231225_1703512320319_hpMain.jpg)
Al-Shifa and Al-Amal hospitals are also operating as shelters for displaced residents, sheltering 50,000 people and 14,000 people respectively, according to the WHO.
Gaza has 13 partially functioning hospitals, two minimally functioning hospitals and 21 hospitals that are not functioning at all, causing the hospitals that are functioning to become overloaded with patients who need help, according to the WHO.
![PHOTO: Displaced Palestinian children watch from inside a tent as a man mourns relatives, who were killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, during a mass funeral in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Dec. 25, 2023.](https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/da3b4d04-173e-4a2d-9c2b-2a9193feddbd/maghazi-refugee-camp-airstrike-3-gty-231225_1703511861680_hpMain.jpg)
"Today I repeat my call on the international community to take urgent steps to alleviate the grave peril facing the population of Gaza and jeopardizing the ability of humanitarian workers to help people with terrible injuries, acute hunger, and at severe risk of disease," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
Tedros said a cease-fire is needed "to spare civilians from further violence and begin the long road towards reconstruction and peace."