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Published 17 Oct, 2023 05:22pm

WHO says only 24 hours left for aid to enter Gaza before ‘catastrophe’ as Israeli strikes intensify

The Gaza Strip has only “24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left”, the regional head of the United Nations’ World Health Organisation has said, as Israeli forces kept up their bombardment of the Palestinian enclave.

“If aid is not allowed into the besieged territory, doctors will have to “prepare death certificates for their patients,” WHO regional director for the eastern Mediterranean, Ahmed al-Mandhari, said in an interview with AFP.

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