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L'OMS à Gaza : Nous sommes proches de l'heure la plus sombre de l'humanité, les bombardements doivent cesser maintenant
Au milieu de l'intensification des bombardements israéliens dans le sud de la bande de Gaza, l'agence de santé des Nations Unies a exprimé mardi sa profonde inquiétude en déclarant que « nous sommes proches de l'heure la plus sombre de l'humanité, ces bombardements doivent cesser maintenant, nous avons besoin d'un cessez-le-feu durable ».
Parlant depuis la ville de Rafah dans le sud de Gaza, le représentant de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) dans les territoires palestiniens occupés, le Dr Richard Pepperkorn, a déclaré que la situation « empirait d'heure en heure. Ces bombardements intensifiés se poursuivent partout, y compris dans la région sud de Khan Younis et même à Rafah. » Il a ajouté que ces derniers jours, « un nombre considérablement croissant de PDI » (personnes déplacées à l'intérieur du pays) s'étaient déplacées de la soi-disant zone centrale et même maintenant vers certaines zones... plus au sud. »
Selon les données de l'OMS, en moins de 60 jours de guerre, environ 16 000 personnes ont été tuées, dont 60 % d'enfants et de femmes. Un enfant est tué toutes les 10 minutes à Gaza, a déclaré l'agence de santé des Nations Unies.
Insistant sur la nécessité de protéger les hôpitaux dans ce bombardement en cours, le Dr Peeperkorn a déclaré que « nous assistons à une catastrophe humanitaire croissante. Nous ne pouvons pas nous permettre ce qui s'est passé dans le nord, la non-fonctionnalité des hôpitaux un par un, cela ne peut absolument pas se produire dans le sud. »
Le responsable de l'OMS a souligné que l'agence veillait à ce que des approvisionnements durables arrivent et que le nombre de lits serait augmenté de 1 400 à 2 500. » Cependant, il a déclaré que « pour la situation dans laquelle nous nous trouvons, nous avons en fait besoin de 5 000 lits, nous n'y arrivons pas. »
Parlant depuis Le Caire, le porte-parole du Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance, James Elder, a souligné que « cette guerre contre les enfants a repris avec une férocité à une échelle au-delà de tout ce que nous avons vu dans le Sud et certainement à une puissance horrifiante de tout ce qui se passe dans le Nord. »
Le responsable humanitaire des Nations Unies a également remis en question la désignation de « soi-disant zones sûres » pour les civils de Gaza par l'armée israélienne, car nulle part n'est sûr.
« Dans le contexte actuel des soi-disant zones sûres, elles ne sont pas scientifiques, elles ne sont pas rationnelles. Elles ne sont pas possibles. Et je pense que les autorités en sont conscientes, » a déclaré M. Elder. « Je pense que c'est insensible, je pense que c'est froid et je pense que cela renforce l'indifférence envers les enfants et les femmes à Gaza. Et j'ai vu dans les hôpitaux du Sud au Nord que cette indifférence est mortelle. C'est déchirant et c'est déroutant. »
M. Elder a déclaré aux journalistes à Genève via une liaison vidéo que « dans ce cas spécifique de Gaza, Israël est la puissance occupante. Il est là, vous devez fournir de la nourriture, de l'eau, des médicaments. Donc maintenant, étant donné que nous parlons de centaines de milliers de personnes, en ce moment même des personnes qui se déplacent quelque part avec des bombardements à grande échelle, 200 par jour hier, des bombardements aériens alors que nous parlons, la seule façon possible de créer des espaces sûrs à Gaza qui soient vraiment sûrs, qui protègent la vie humaine, est que l'enfer cesse de pleuvoir du ciel. Seul un cessez-le-feu, seul un cessez-le-feu va sauver les enfants de Gaza en ce moment. »
Selon l'agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés palestiniens, l'UNRWA, au moins 19 collègues supplémentaires avaient été tués lors de frappes aériennes, portant le nombre total à 130 depuis le 7 octobre.
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Highlighting the long-term decline in the Earth’s freshwater storage and glacier melt, WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo explained that the planet’s water reserves used to act as a planetary “savings account” that absorbed the occasional dry season, avoiding a water crisis. “One of the central stories of the 2025 report is what is happening to that savings account? And the simple answer is that we are depleting it,” she told journalists in Geneva.
Groundwater reserves are equally stretched and have been in decline since 2014, WMO’s report states, with nearly two-thirds of monitored wells worldwide showing levels lower than the historical norm and indicating a shift “further toward deficit…not recovery”.
“At the same time, we are seeing more water-related disasters,” Ms. Saulo said, while also stressing that the currently strengthening El Niño “will increase the risk of drought in some areas, and flooding in others”.
Glaciers disappearing
In 2025, for the fourth consecutive year, every major glaciated region on Earth lost ice mass, leading to short-term hazards including floods and long-term water insecurity, according to WMO.
Responding to a question about whether the changing global water cycle might have contributed to the deadly Nepal-China flooding disaster, Ms. Saulo explained that melting ice and rock was just one factor in the chain of events that ultimately sent a massive and deadly wall of water and debris downstream on 26 August, killing at least 1,367 people.
“You asked if it could happen again? Absolutely; the problem in this region is that there’s 63,700 glaciers at the last count,” she told a Press Conference in Geneva. “Even if you’re looking with remote sensing with satellites at these glaciers, you might see some faults, you might see some slight shifting, that does not mean necessarily catastrophic collapse. So, in order to plan for this, it’s very, very difficult. But the international community is looking very hard at ways in which we can bring people together to solve some of these monitoring issues.”
Data indicates that glaciers shrank between 2023 and 2025 with cumulative losses of 1,400 gigatonnes of water – or about one third of annual fresh water needs.
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Some regions with smaller glaciers such as Central Europe, the Caucasus, the western Canada and the United States may already have reached “peak water”, Mr. Jenkinson warned.
“After this point, the glacier gives less meltwater each year simply because there is less ice left to melt. That matters for every community downstream that relies on water during hot, dry summers,” he explained.
Narelle van der Wel, WMO’s Head of Cryosphere Monitoring, Predictions and Services, stressed that while some further glacier loss is unavoidable, the eventual scale of the decline is not predetermined.
“Some glacier loss is inevitable, but total loss of glaciers is not yet inevitable,” she said, pointing to emissions reductions as central to limiting future losses.
Preparing for moving baselines
The report does not attribute every observed change to climate change alone. WMO says pressure on water resources and natural variability also contribute.
Mr. Jenkinson said governments need to prepare for “moving baselines” as historical patterns become less reliable.
“The situation 30 years ago is not where we are today,” he said. Countries, he added, need to prepare “for those changes that have really already arrived”.
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