WHO announces largest medical evacuation from Gaza since October

The WHO announces the "largest medical evacuation from Gaza since October 2023" and the success of the polio vaccination campaign in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.

The patients and 155 companions had first been transferred from four locations across Gaza to a hospital in the centre of the territory before being flown to Abu Dhabi.WHO said it was especially complicated to extract the patients who had been in hard-to-reach northern Gaza.The patients were among the more than 10,000 people that the WHO has estimated require urgent medical evacuation.