Funds based on donor contributions will help strengthen emergency coordination, trauma care and disease surveillance, the UN agency said on Sunday, while also ensuring access to essential medicines and medical supplies.
“As the number of victims increases, so do attacks on health carewhich increase the burden on health systems at a time when they are needed most,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a social media post.
“I urge all parties to choose the courageous and life-saving path towards peace.“, he added.
WHO regional director Dr Nana Balkhy said that at a time when aid was already sharply reduced, it was essential to strengthen frontline health workers.
Liquidity injection
In LebanonThe growing number of injuries resulting from renewed strikes by Hezbollah militants in support of Iran, and Israel’s devastating counterattacks targeting many southern areas and the capital Beirut, are straining health services.
SATURDAY, Tedros stressed that the killing of 14 health workers in southern Lebanon over the previous 24 hours marked a “tragic development” in the regional crisis triggered by the decision of the United States and Israel to launch a large-scale air offensive against Iran.
Twelve doctors were killed in a nighttime strike on the Bourj Qalauoiyeh primary health care center. Two paramedics lost their lives earlier in an attack on a health facility. There was 27 attacks against health establishments in Lebanon since March 2, leaving at least 30 dead.
In IraqServices are under increasing pressure – particularly in areas close to strike zones and violent protests. The United States provided $500,000 for emergency coordination, mass casualty management and other key services, WHO said.
Before the bombing campaign against Iran began, the WHO needed $633 million through its 2026 appeal to meet regional needs. As of March, they were only 37 percent funded.
An allocation of $500,000 for Syria support the purchase of medicines and life-saving supplies for displaced populations and strengthen disease surveillance.
Blue helmets under fire
Soldiers from the United Nations mission in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) who monitor the Blue Line came under fire again in three separate incidents while on patrol this weekend.
The mission issued a statement saying the hostile fire most likely came from “non-state armed groups” close to their bases in Yatar, Dayr Kifa and Qallawiyah.
“The fire in Yatar hit five meters from the peacekeepers“, the mission said. “Two patrols returned fire in self-defense and after brief exchanges, the patrols resumed their planned activities. No peacekeepers were injured.
UNIFIL stressed that the use of weapons by armed groups within the mission’s area of operations constitutes a problem. violation of Security Council Resolution 1701 which ended hostilities between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in 2006.
UN chief António Guterres has just concluded a solidarity visit to Lebanon where he stressed that any attack on UN “blue helmets” and their positions “is totally unacceptable and must stop.”
During his visit to Beirut, the Secretary-General also met with some of the more than 800,000 civilians who have been forced to flee their homes since the fighting began, emphasizing once again that civilians should never be a target.
