Today @WHO led a very high risk @UN assessment mission to Al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza. The team saw a hospital no longer able to function: no water, no food, no electricity, no fuel, medical supplies depleted. Given this deplorable situation and the condition of many patients, including babies, health workers requested support to evacuate patients who cannot receive lifesaving care there anymore. We are working with partners to develop an urgent evacuation plan and ask for full facilitation of this plan. We continue to call for protection of health and of civilians. The current situation is unbearable and unjustifiable. Ceasefire. NOW.

I understand what the children and parents of #Gaza must be going through, because as a child and as a parent I went through the same thing. The children and parents of Gaza and Israel want and need the same thing that my family wanted and needed: peace and security.

It has been a month of intense bombardment in #Gaza. 10,000 people have died. Over 4,000 of them were children. How long will this human catastrophe last? We urge all parties to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire and work toward lasting peace. We again call for the immediate release of the hostages. History will judge us all by what we do to end this tragedy.