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Israel kills scores in Gaza as Egypt continues ceasefire efforts

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11 September, 2025

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WHO says to remain in Gaza City despite Israel's expulsion order

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11 September, 2025

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At least 15,600 Gazans in need of urgent medical evacuation

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23 August, 2025

Gazans walk for kilometers after receiving scarce flour aid in Gaza

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WHO says malnutrition reaching 'alarming levels' in Gaza

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27 July, 2025

An exhausted, weak and malnourished child is seen along with his mother in Gaza fights for life amid ongoing Israeli attacks at the Abdulaziz er-Rantisi Children's Hospital in Gaza City

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Gaza running out of special food to save malnourished children

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WHO says over 40 people killed in Sudan hospital attack

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24 June, 2025

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Sudan war destroys world's only research centre on skin disease

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25 April, 2025

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US to leave World Health Organization on 22 January, 2026

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WHO chief 'escaped death' in Israeli strikes on Yemen airport

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28 December, 2024

The WHO is alarmed by civilian deaths in north Darfur

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Deadly attacks in Sudan's Darfur 'shocking': WHO chief

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13 December, 2024

Israel has imposed an intensified siege on the north of Gaza [Getty]

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WHO warns of 'dire shortages' of food, medicine in northern Gaza

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28 November, 2024

Commuters ride along a street engulfed in smog in Lahore on 18 November 2024

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Smog drops from hazardous to unhealthy in Pakistan's Lahore

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18 November, 2024

UN says Gaza polio vaccination campaign complete, north Gaza remains untreated

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UN says Gaza polio vaccination campaign complete

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06 November, 2024

Palestinians mourned the victims of an Israeli strike on Deir al-Balah [Getty]

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70 killed in Gaza as Israel 'destroys' Kamal Adwan Hospital

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05 November, 2024

Gaza's medics report increasing difficulties in carrying out operations as supplies run low

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WHO, Red Crescent resupply two hospitals in north Gaza

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14 October, 2024

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Second round of Gaza polio vaccination 'more complicated': UN

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12 October, 2024

Gaza's main Al-Shifa hospital has become a stark symbol of the devastation wrought by the war [Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images]

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One year on: Israel's lethal siege on Gaza's health system

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The polio vaccine is vital to stop the spread of the disease in war-torn Gaza

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WHO hopes to start Gaza polio vaccination second round on Oct 14

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05 October, 2024