WHO head Tedros Ghebreyesus calls Israeli raid on al Shifa Hospital ‘totally unacceptable’

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WHO head Tedros Ghebreyesus calls the Israeli raid on Shifa Hospital 'totally unacceptable'.Source: World Health Organization

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00:00 Doctors and nurses are having to make impossible decisions on who lives and who dies.
00:09 Israel's military incursion into Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City is totally unacceptable.
00:18 Hospitals are not battlegrounds.
00:23 We are extremely worried for the safety of staff and patients.
00:29 Protecting them is paramount.
00:32 WHO has lost contact with health workers at Al-Shifa Hospital.
00:40 But one thing is clear.
00:43 Under international humanitarian law, health facilities, health workers, ambulances and
00:52 patients must be safeguarded and protected against all acts of war.

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