MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: Security Council holds emergency meeting on collapse of Gaza health system
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Patients are teated at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza (file photo).
The UN Security Council met on Friday morning in New York to debate the collapse of health services in Gaza. The meeting was called by Algeria, the leading voice for the Arab world on the Council which has just taken the gavel as president for the month of January. Senior official from the World Health Organization (WHO) Rik Peeperkorn briefed ambassadors alongside High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. App users can follow here.
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