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6 April 2026<\/p>\n
From Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General as posted on his official X account<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n WHO is devastated to confirm that a person contracted to provide services to the Organization in Gaza was killed today during a security incident.<\/p>\n Two WHO staff members were present but were not injured.<\/p>\n We extend our condolences to the family, loved ones, and colleagues of the deceased.<\/p>\n The incident is under investigation by the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n Following the incident, WHO suspended today’s medical evacuation of patients from Gaza via Rafah to Egypt. Medical evacuations will remain suspended until further notice.<\/p>\n We are deeply grateful to our colleagues who work day and night despite the risks to ensure that the people of Gaza can access the health care they need.<\/p>\n We call for the protection of civilians and humanitarian workers. Peace is the best medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 6 April 2026 From Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General as posted on his official X account. WHO is devastated to confirm that a person contracted to provide services to the Organization in Gaza was killed today during a security incident. Two WHO staff members were present but were not injured. We extend our […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[6978],"document-source":[2529],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1829,2005,2533],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-316743","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-social-media-post","document-source-world-health-organization-who","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/316743","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":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/316743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316747,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/316743\/revisions\/316747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=316743"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=316743"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=316743"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=316743"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=316743"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=316743"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=316743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}