WHO to evacuate 1,000 Gazan women, children for urgent medical care

A man inspects the damage in a house that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek in the Bekaa valley on October 21, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. [AFP]

Up to 1,000 women and children needing medical care will shortly be evacuated from Gaza to Europe, the head of the World Health Organization's Europe branch said in comments published on Monday.

Israel, which is besieging the war-devastated Palestinian territory, "is committed to 1,000 more medical evacuations within the next months to the European Union," Hans Kluge said in an interview with AFP.