Speaking at a press conference in Port Sudan during a two-day visit to Sudan, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 10 more million people have been internally displaced in addition to two million refugees in neighboring countries.

The polio vaccination campaign for children under 10 will begin in Gaza on Sunday and will last three days in each zone: central, south and north of Gaza – where humanitarian pauses will take place during the distribution.

'Humanitarian catastrophe must not be allowed to worsen,' says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

‘Access to the patients and hospital should be facilitated,’ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says of Nasser Hospital in war-torn Palestinian enclave

WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who lived through war as a child and whose own children hid in a bunker during bombardments in Ethiopia’s 1998-2000 border war with Eritrea, became emotional describing conditions in the bombed-out Gaza enclave where more than 25,000 people have been killed.

This peril not only threatens the lives of the people in Gaza but also poses a significant challenge to the ability of humanitarian workers to assist those suffering from severe injuries, acute hunger, and a high risk of disease.

“I have lost count of the number of times when I thought the crisis in Gaza could not get more horrific. But it has happened again,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.