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L'accès récent de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) et de ses partenaires aux hôpitaux du nord de Gaza a révélé de manière frappante des niveaux graves de malnutrition chez les Palestiniens, des enfants mourant de faim, de graves pénuries de carburant, de nourriture et de fournitures médicales, ainsi que la destruction des bâtiments hospitaliers.
« Nous avons de nouveau accédé au nord. ... La plupart de nos missions dans le nord ont été refusées fin janvier, seules trois sur seize ont été facilitées, en février aucune n'a été réellement facilitée, et tout cela en raison d'un manque d'un mécanisme de déconfliction adéquat », a déclaré le Dr Rik Peeperkorn, représentant de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) pour le Territoire palestinien occupé lors d'un briefing aux journalistes à l'ONU à Genève.
Il a noté que leur dernière mission à l'hôpital Al Shifa dans le nord de Gaza remonte au 22 janvier et que l'accès a été accordé plus récemment à d'autres établissements.
« Le 3 mars, juste le week-end dernier, l'OMS et ses partenaires ont pu atteindre Kamal Adwan, qui est plus au nord, et l'hôpital Al-Awda dans le nord de Gaza. C'était la première mission (...) dans ces hôpitaux depuis début octobre 2023, malgré nos nombreux efforts pour obtenir un accès plus régulier au nord de Gaza ».
L'OMS et ses partenaires ont réussi à livrer 9 500 litres de carburant à chaque hôpital, ainsi que des fournitures médicales essentielles - une petite fraction des fournitures vitales urgentes nécessaires. La situation à l'hôpital Al-Awda est particulièrement épouvantable, a déclaré le Dr Peeperkorn, car l'un des bâtiments est détruit. L'hôpital Kamal Adwan, le seul hôpital pédiatrique dans le nord de Gaza, est débordé de patients. Le manque d'électricité constitue une menace sérieuse pour les soins aux patients, en particulier dans des domaines critiques comme l'unité de soins intensifs et l'unité néonatale.
Le porte-parole de l'UNICEF, James Elder, a évoqué les conséquences désastreuses pour les enfants dans ces établissements, de nombreux autres restant introuvables. «Au moins dix enfants seraient morts de déshydratation et de malnutrition à l'hôpital Kamal Adwan dans le nord de la bande de Gaza, probablement beaucoup plus d'enfants se battent pour leur vie. Ces décès sont dus à l'homme, prévisibles et entièrement évitables.» De nombreux autres jeunes risquent de mourir dans les prochains jours à moins que l'aide ne soit intensifiée sans délai, a averti l'UNICEF.
La malnutrition est devenue une menace de plus en plus grave à Gaza, en particulier chez les jeunes enfants, entraînant un gaspillage irréversible. Auparavant, l'autosuffisance de Gaza en poisson et dans d'autres productions alimentaires constituait un rempart contre de tels dangers, a déclaré le Dr Peeperkorn. «Ce que nous voyons spécifiquement dans le nord de Gaza, c'est un gaspillage de 15,6 % chez les enfants de moins de deux ans dans le nord de Gaza. Cela suggère un déclin grave et rapide », a-t-il déclaré. «Un tel déclin de l'état nutritionnel de la population en trois mois est en fait sans précédent à l'échelle mondiale. Plus précisément, lorsque vous regardez ce qu'il en était auparavant, vous parlez de 0,7 ou 0,8 % d'enfants de moins de cinq ans souffrant de malnutrition aiguë.»
Selon le Dr Peeperkorn, seuls 12 hôpitaux sont maintenant partiellement fonctionnels - six dans le nord et six dans le sud. Vingt-trois hôpitaux ne fonctionnent pas du tout. Face à ces circonstances désastreuses, le Dr Peeperkorn a déclaré que l'OMS plaide en faveur d'une évacuation médicale significative. «Nous estimons que 8000 patients devraient être évacués hors de Gaza, 6000 liés aux traumatismes de guerre et 2000 patients généraux.»
Entre le 7 octobre et le 20 février, seules 2 203 personnes ont eu accès à un traitement médical en dehors de Gaza, malgré les offres de l'Égypte et d'autres pays, y compris en Europe, de recevoir et de traiter un plus grand nombre de patients des établissements de santé de Gaza dévastés.
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HISTOIRE : Mise à jour Situation humanitaire à Gaza - OMS, UNICEF
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LIEU : 5 mars 2024 GENÈVE, SUISSE
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The key findings from WMO’s State of Global Water Resources 2025 report covering the hydrological cycle and extreme events in the five-year period to last year:
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.
Every major glacier region on Earth lost ice for the fourth consecutive year.
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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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