Aucune ordonnance d'évacuation donnée avant la frappe sur l'hôpital Kamal Adwan, déclare l'OMS
L'un des derniers centres de santé partiellement fonctionnels dans le nord de Gaza aurait été à nouveau touché dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi par plusieurs frappes, laissant quatre travailleurs de la santé parmi les victimes et les morts, selon l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) des Nations Unies.
« Toute la nuit, il y a eu de lourds bombardements autour de l'hôpital Kamal Adwan », a déclaré le Dr Rik Peeperkorn, représentant de l'agence de santé de l'ONU pour le Territoire palestinien occupé. S'exprimant depuis Gaza devant des journalistes à Genève, il a rapporté qu'un char des Forces de défense israéliennes (FDI) a été vu à l'extérieur de l'hôpital tôt le matin, vers 4 heures, alors que les gens étaient invités à quitter le centre de santé. « Il n'y a eu aucun ordre officiel d'évacuation », a-t-il affirmé, seulement des rumeurs qui ont semé la panique. « Les gens ont commencé à escalader le mur pour s'échapper, et cette panique a attiré le feu des FDI. Il y a des rapports de morts et d'arrestations. »
Le responsable de l'agence de santé de l'ONU a affirmé que peu de fournitures d'aide et d'équipes de santé d'urgence ont atteint Kamal Adwan depuis le début de l'opération militaire israélienne dans l'extrême nord de Gaza début octobre. Cela a laissé l'hôpital sans la plupart des fournitures, y compris le carburant.
Après sept semaines de tentatives infructueuses et de missions humanitaires refusées, une Équipe médicale d'urgence internationale (EMT) avec des fournitures de base a finalement été déployée à Kamal Adwan « il y a moins d'une semaine », a expliqué le Dr Peeperkorn. L'équipe comprenait deux chirurgiens, deux infirmières d'urgence, un gynécologue et un logisticien. Le déploiement de l'EMT avait été refusé au moins cinq fois au cours des dernières semaines. Leur mission a été écourtée.
« Ils sont juste là, et en une semaine, ils sont à nouveau partis. Ce n'est pas seulement incompréhensible pour moi, mais aussi incroyablement, incroyablement triste », a déclaré le Dr Peeperkorn, qui a ajouté qu'aucun chirurgien ne reste à l'hôpital Kamal Adwan.
Depuis octobre 2023, 58 pour cent des 273 missions dirigées par l'OMS à l'intérieur de Gaza ont été soit refusées, annulées ou entravées.
Cela a ajouté à la tâche urgente mais extrêmement difficile d'évacuer les patients qui ont besoin d'un soutien médical. Depuis le 7 octobre 2023 et le début de la guerre déclenchée par les attaques terroristes menées par le Hamas en Israël, 5 325 patients ont été évacués de Gaza. Près de 5 000 ont voyagé via le passage de Rafah avant sa fermeture le 7 mai dernier, dont 4 000 enfants. L'agence de santé de l'ONU estime qu'au moins 12 000 patients à travers Gaza ont encore besoin d'une évacuation médicale pour survivre. Seulement 378 ont été évacués depuis la fermeture de Rafah.
Au moins 44 612 Palestiniens ont été tués et 105 834 blessés depuis le début de la guerre le 7 octobre 2023, selon les autorités sanitaires palestiniennes. La majorité des personnes tuées étaient des femmes et des enfants.
Fin
Histoire : “Système de santé de Gaza – OMS” – 06 décembre 2024
Orateurs :
· Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, représentant de l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) pour le Territoire Palestinien Occupé (parlant depuis Gaza)
TRT : 02’25”
SOURCE : UNTV CH
LANGUE : ANGLAIS / NATS
FORMAT D'IMAGE : 16:9
DATE : 06 décembre 2024 - GENÈVE, SUISSE
Conférence de presse à Genève
LISTE DES PLANS
1
1
1
Edited News | WHO
In suspected Russia plague death, testing and monitoring underway – WHO
The death of a lab worker in Russia’s Siberia region has sparked concerns about plague being the cause, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, adding that it was following the situation closely.
1
1
Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Friday provided and oral update to the 63rd session of the Human rights Council on Ukraine.
1
1
1
Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Friday provided and oral update to the 63rd session of the Human rights Council on the human rights situation in Haiti.
1
1
1
Edited News | WHO
Repeated delays in bringing lifesaving medicines, prosthetics and more from Israel into Gaza risk having devastating consequences on Palestinians who urgently need them in the wartorn enclave, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. “A truck full of non-priority supplies or the right supplies arriving too late, doesn't save lives. That's the question that actually matters," said Dr Reinhilde Van De Weerdt, WHO Representative in the OPT.
1
1
1
Edited News | WHO
DRC: Early access to care and oxygen decisive for Ebola patients’ survival – WHO
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), health workers fighting the country’s largest-ever Ebola outbreak are struggling to overcome critical challenges to patient care, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday.
1
1
1
Edited News | OCHA , UN
Civilians in Iran are continuing to feel the consequences of months of conflict and military escalation, the UN’s top official in the country has said, as loss of life, damage to civilian infrastructure and mounting economic pressures leave many facing continued uncertainty.
1
1
1
Edited News | WHO , UNICEF
Aid agencies in Yemen highlighted the growing hunger emergency sparked by renewed fighting between Houthi opposition forces and Government troops, after mobile health clinics reported that hundreds of children displaced by the violence are suffering from the most deadly form of malnutrition.
1
1
1
Edited News | UNHCR
Displacement on the rise in Yemen as fighting continues - UNHCR
As hostilities worsen in Yemen, more people have been fleeing their homes, further intensifying the humanitarian crisis within the region, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday.
1
1
1
Edited News | IOM , OHCHR , UNFPA , UNOG , UNHCR , WHO
Yemenis displaced by renewed fighting have described fleeing for their lives amid shelling and gunfire, aid agencies reported on Friday, while highlighting the dramatic increase in humanitarian needs in the country and in Djibouti, where thousands have sought shelter.
1
1
1
Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
The UN Human Rights Office issued on Friday a report documenting a shocking pattern of sexual violence amid Russia’s full-scale armed attack on Ukraine.
2
1
2
Edited News , Press Conferences | WMO
New data showing that rivers were at their lowest level for decades last year provides further evidence that the climate crisis is real and countries must act immediately to protect themselves from the increasing threat to communities and livelihoods, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.
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.
“All 19 glacier regions around the globe lost ice; in Central Asia, Iceland, the Russian Arctic and western Canada and the United States, it was among the three worst years on record,” said Wayne Jenkinson, WMO’s Director of Hydrology and Cryosphere.
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”.
ends
1
1
1
Edited News | OCHA , WHO
The deadly Ebola virus outbreak in DR Congo continues to spread across the vast country despite some success in containing it, aid officials said on Tuesday, in a renewed call for international support to help responders on the ground.