WHO upbeat on scaling up aid under Gaza ceasefire terms

A World Health Organisation official said on Friday that it should be possible to scale up aid deliveries to Gaza to about 600 lorries a day under the terms of an Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal. “I think the possibility is very much there and specifically when other crossings will be opened up,” Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told a Geneva press briefing. The WHO plans to bring in an unspecified number of prefabricated hospitals to support Gaza’s decimated health sector, he added.