{"id":321428,"date":"2023-12-05T19:07:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T16:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=321428"},"modified":"2023-12-05T19:07:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T16:07:59","slug":"desperation-intensifies-in-gaza-amid-uncertainty-of-safe-zones-un-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=321428","title":{"rendered":"Desperation intensifies in Gaza amid uncertainty of \u2018safe zones\u2019- UN says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geneva, SANA-The situation for Palestinians in Gaza is \u201cgetting worse by the hour\u201d, the UN health agency WHO said on Tuesday, after some of the heaviest Israeli shelling in the enclave since October 7<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking from the southern city of Rafah, Dr. Rick Peeperkorn, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, described further bloodshed after the resumption of Israeli bombing last Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe situation is getting worse by the hour,\u201d Dr. Peeperkorn told journalists in Geneva via video link. \u201cI mean\u2026there\u2019s intensified bombing going on all around and including here in the southern areas, Khan Younis and even in Rafah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WHO medic noted that in the last couple of days there had also been \u201ca vastly increasing number\u201d of internally displaced people travelling from the Middle area \u201cand even now the southern areas\u201d, fearing for their lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN aid coordination office, OCHA, reported that between the afternoon of 3 December and the afternoon of 4 December at least 349 Palestinians were killed and 750 injured, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three Israeli soldiers were also killed, according to Israeli occupation sources, OCHA said in its latest emergency update.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mazen Eyon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, SANA-The situation for Palestinians in Gaza is \u201cgetting worse by the hour\u201d, the UN health agency WHO said on Tuesday, after some of the heaviest Israeli shelling in the enclave since October 7th. Speaking from the southern city of Rafah, Dr. Rick Peeperkorn, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, described &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":321429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-news-bar","category-slide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321430,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321428\/revisions\/321430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}