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Mona Al-Zebda, displaced from Gaza City, bakes bread at a tent camp for displaced Palestinians at the Muwasi, Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, February 24, 2025
A TRUMP administration decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) has frozen $46 million (£36m) for its operations in Gaza, a top WHO official said today.
Dr Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO representative for Occupied Palestinian Territories, warned that the funding freeze would leave six key areas underfunded, including emergency medical teams, rehabilitation of health facilities, co-ordination with partner organisations and medical evacuations.
Speaking from Gaza at a United Nations briefing in Geneva, Dr Peeperkorn said that money for such operations remained in WHO’s funding pipeline and “we’re still going full steam ahead” with activities.
The proscription of Palestine Action is illegitimate and unethical, say 300 Jewish people, including Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, Mike Leigh, Michael Rosen and Gillian Slovo, in letter to Starmer
