Deputy Minister of Health Dr Assad Ramlawi speaks at the Health Cluster meeting on 31 May 2018May 2018 - Members of the oPt Health Cluster met to review the preparedness and response plan in advance of the potential mass demolition and forcible transfer of the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al Ahmar – Abu al Helu, located on the outskirts...

Humanitarian Coordinator, WHO, OHCHR and OCHA call for the protection of medical worker Jerusalem, 2 June 2018 - United Nations officials and agencies have expressed their outrage in the face of yesterday’s killing of Razan An Najjar, a 21-year-old female volunteering as a first responder, while carrying out her humanitarian duties with the...

27 May, 2018 – With the aim of saving lives and drastically reducing the suffering of populations in Gaza, a US$1.2 million contribution from the Turkish Government to WHO was made official today. The fund will be used to provide essential drugs and disposables for trauma and emergency non-trauma cases across the Gaza Strip. Since the mass...

24 May 2018 - Gaza, Over 930,000 medical consumables reached Gaza’s Central Drugs Store yesterday, May 22nd. Procured from local suppliers and supplied to the MoH, elements include essential disposables such as latex gloves, sterile surgical blades, bandages, surgical face masks and chest tubes. The Central Drugs Store in Gaza supplies all 14...

Patients are referred to the closest trauma stabilization point from the points of injury in northern Gaza. Photo: WHO18 May 2018 – During demonstrations in Gaza on 14 and 15 May, 62 Palestinians were killed, including one health worker, and 2768 injured, including 8 children. However, the toll could have been even higher without a recent...

Jerusalem, 14 May, 2018 – With a priority focus on improving the primary and emergency health services in Gaza, the Austrian Cooperation, through the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and WHO today signed a cooperation agreement for EUR 300,000, intended to help meet the health care needs in Gaza. During the signing ceremony at the WHO premises...

One of the 211 health workers injured in demonstrations since 30 March being treated at a trauma stabilisation point in Gaza14 May 2018 – WHO is shocked and saddened to learn of the death of a health worker during demonstrations in Gaza, in addition to the dozens of civilians killed and wounded. WHO reiterates its calls for the protection of all health...

10 May 2018 - oPt, Humanitarian actors and members of oPt Health Cluster attended a workshop led by the Health Cluster, in the West Bank and Gaza. Over 40 partners were trained on information tools developed by WHO as the lead cluster agency, in order to drive the emergency operational response on the ground. Focusing on the current emergency...

Minister of Health for Palestine, H.E. Dr. Jawad Awad and Head of the WHO oPt Office, Dr. Gerald Rockenschaub update counterparts on the humanitarian situation in Gaza and West BankOn the 7 May 2018, Ramallah, the Health Cluster partners met to plan the upscale of emergency preparedness and response activities across the oPt. The meeting was led by...

6 May 2018 – Ahmed is 25 years old and a volunteer first aid worker with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) in Gaza. On 6 April 2018, Ahmed attended with PMRS first aid workers east of Khan Younis to assist those injured during demonstrations as part of the Great March of Return.  At approximately 3pm, Ahmed was shot by a bullet that...