GENEVA, August 11, 2026 (WAFA) - Thousands of patients in the genocide-stricken Gaza Strip are still awaiting medical evacuation despite the ceasefire, World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said on Tuesday.

Jasarevic made his remarks in response to questions by Anadolu on the latest developments in medical evacuations from Gaza, amid ongoing difficulties surrounding the process and patients’ appeals for assistance in receiving medical treatment.

Jasarevic said that 12,913 patients, including 6,186 children, had been medically evacuated from Gaza since October 2023, along with around 16,000 companions.

He added that medical evacuations are currently taking place three to four times a week.

“Last week, from Aug. 2 to 8, 101 patients and 164 companions were evacuated,” Jasarevic said, stressing that thousands of patients are still awaiting medical evacuation.

Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since 7 October 2023, killing 73,387 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 174,257 others. It has destroyed 90% of the Strip’s infrastructure, with the cost of Gaza reconstruction estimated at $70 billion.

Since the Gaza ceasefire agreement went into effect on October 11, 2025, Israel has killed 1,259 Palestinians and injured 4,146 others. The bodies of at least 807 slain Palestinians have been recovered during the same period.

In the last 24 hours, the body of a slain Palestinian was admitted to Gaza hospitals along with a casualty.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

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