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Rik Peeperkorn

October 24, 2025

Delivery of medical aid to Gaza Strip continues to stall: WHO

Israel controls access to the Gaza Strip and has to authorise aid deliveries to the sealed-off territory.

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid into Gaza (Credit: Reuters)
May 13, 2025

WHO warns hunger in Gaza will affect ‘entire generation’

WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Rik Peeperkorn, said he had seen children who looked years younger than their age.

GAZA CHILDREN
November 5, 2024

Over 100 patients to be evacuated from Gaza: WHO

The organisation said the patients would be evacuated on Wednesday in a rare transfer out of the war-ravaged enclave.

Explosion at a Gaza hospital
May 3, 2024

WHO says risk of famine still present in Gaza

Although more food has recently reached the Gaza Strip, WHO’s representative to the Palestinian territories said the risk of famine has not yet been averted.

Rescued Children