The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the population of Gaza is in “grave peril”, citing acute hunger and desperation throughout the conflict-ridden Palestinian territory, AFP reports.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to take “urgent steps to alleviate the grave peril facing the population of Gaza and jeopardising the ability of humanitarian workers to help people with terrible injuries, acute hunger, and at severe risk of disease”.