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Weekend: World Health Organization warns Gaza hospital evacuations could be "death sentence"

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World Health Organization warns Gaza hospital evacuations could be "death sentence"

15/10/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, World Health Organization warns Gaza hospital evacuations could be "death sentence"

The UN agency says lives of many critically ill and fragile patients hang in the balance

The UN agency says lives of many critically ill and fragile patients hang in the balance.

The World Health Organization says an order by Israel to evacuate more than twenty hospitals in northern Gaza is tantamount to a death sentence for some of the sick and injured. It raised concerns particularly about those on life-support or babies in incubators. Meanwhile, the Israeli military says it is planning an attack by land, air and sea. We will have latest from our correspondent in Jerusalem.

Also in programme: polling booths have opened in Poland for its general election; and we get a tour of a travelling exhibition celebrating the centenary of Disney.

Joining Paul Henley to discuss this and more are Vernoika Poniscjakova, a senior teaching fellow at the University of Portsmouth and Miles Johnson who is a an investigate journalist for the Financial Times.

(Picture: People search for survivors at the site of an Israeli rocket attack in Al-Shati refugee camp in the west of Gaza City. Credit: Mohammed Saber/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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