Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, expressed concern over the increasing risk of infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip due to displacement and humanitarian conditions resulting from the war. Tedros wrote on X: "As people continue to be massively displaced across the south of Gaza, with some families forced to move multiple times and many sheltering in overcrowded health facilities, my colleagues and I at WHO remain very concerned about the increasing threat of infectious diseases."
He added, "From mid-October to mid-December, people living in shelters continued to suffer from illnesses." Tedros revealed that "approximately 180,000 people in Gaza are suffering from upper respiratory infections, 136,400 cases of diarrhea, half of which are among children under five, 55,400 cases of lice and scabies, 5,330 cases of chickenpox, 42,700 cases of skin rashes, including 4,722 cases of impetigo, 4,683 cases of acute jaundice syndrome, and 126 cases of meningitis."
