GENEVA / PNN / 

The World Health Organization (WHO) called on more countries to receive and treat patients from the Gaza Strip, following the medical evacuation of a group of patients, most of them children, to Jordan.

"The World Health Organization supervised the medical evacuation of 35 patients, most of them children, from Gaza to Jordan, accompanied by 72 family members," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on the X platform tonight.

"We are grateful to the Government of Jordan for its continued support and provision of specialized care to critically ill patients," he added.

"More than 10,000 people in Gaza still need medical evacuation," he continued.

"We urge more countries to accept patients for medical evacuation - their lives depend on it. Too many are waiting," he added.

The organization renewed its call for the expansion of medical corridors, including the full resumption of the traditional referral pathway to hospitals in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which existed before the war.

It added that at current rates, it will take years to evacuate all Gaza patients in need of treatment.

The World Health Organization says that airstrikes and shortages of medical supplies, food, water, and fuel in Gaza have "nearly exhausted" the already under-resourced health care system, with many hospitals out of service and other facilities barely functioning.