  {"id":298306,"date":"2024-07-09T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=298306"},"modified":"2024-07-11T10:55:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T14:55:20","slug":"un-geneva-press-briefing-09jul24","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/un-geneva-press-briefing-09jul24\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Geneva Press Briefing (WHO on situation in Gaza)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>09 July 2024<\/p>\n<p><em>(Excerpt)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong><u>Gaza<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Responding to questions, Tarik Ja\u0161arevi\u0107, for\u00a0<u>the World Health Organization (WHO<\/u>), said according to the Ministry of Health, 34 people had died of malnutrition and dehydration in Gaza so far. 60 cases of severe malnutrition and dehydration were detected at one hospital alone. WHO kept appealing for all openings of crossings into Gaza. More than 10,000 people needed to receive specialised medical care outside of Gaza; they could not wait.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Responding to further questions, Mr. Ja\u0161arevi\u0107 said it was difficult to have exact figures on the number of deaths not related to shelling and bombardments. Everyone in Gaza was at risk of becoming sick, due to multiple factors, including from malnutrition. It was a vicious circle of not having access to clean water, food, sanitation and basic health services, combined with military operations. Everyone in Gaza faced increased risk of health issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 09 July 2024 (Excerpt) &#8230; Gaza Responding to questions, Tarik Ja\u0161arevi\u0107, for\u00a0the World Health Organization (WHO), said according to the Ministry of Health, 34 people had died of malnutrition and dehydration in Gaza so far. 60 cases of severe malnutrition and dehydration were detected at one hospital alone. WHO kept appealing for all openings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/un-geneva-press-briefing-09jul24\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2565],"document-source":[2633,2009,2529],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,2057,2005,6870,2273],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-298306","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-briefing","document-source-united-nations-information-service-at-geneva","document-source-united-nations-office-at-geneva-unog","document-source-world-health-organization-who","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-food","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-hunger","document-subject-water","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/298306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/298306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298333,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/298306\/revisions\/298333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=298306"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=298306"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=298306"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=298306"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=298306"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=298306"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=298306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}