Israel has accused the World Health Organisation of collusion with Hamas by ignoring Israeli evidence of the “terrorist use” of hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli ambassador Meirav Eilon Shahar told the WHO’s executive board that there could not be health care in the Palestinian territory when Hamas “embeds itself in hospitals and uses human shields”.

In “every single hospital that the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) searched in Gaza, it found evidence of Hamas’ military use,” she said.

“These are undeniable facts that WHO chooses to ignore time and time again.This is not incompetence; it is collusion.”