A Cry for Peace in the Middle East
On this painful day, we continue to call for peace as we seek to deliver health and humanitarian aid to those innocent civilians caught in the crossfire.
Today, we mark one year since the deadly attacks of October 7, 2023, that took the lives of 1,200 people. We remember those who lost their lives, as well as those who remain in captivity.
After a year of conflict, nearly 45,000 people have been killed and over 3 million people are living amid a devastating humanitarian crisis across the region, struggling to access food, water, shelter, medical care, and safety. Every day, more families are displaced from their homes as they grapple with the trauma of war.
As a global health and humanitarian organization, we’ve witnessed the severe impact this crisis has had on health systems across the region. Hospitals shuttered and destroyed, widespread mental health trauma, doctors and nurses working in the dark without anesthesia, women giving birth without pain medication, children facing starvation, a lack of clean water and sanitation, and outbreaks of deadly infectious diseases. And nearly 300 aid workers killed, including one of our own.
One year later, the violence continues to escalate and spread, disproportionately impacting women and children, and further endangering civilian safety and disrupting health care access.
On this painful day, we continue to call for peace as we seek to deliver health and humanitarian aid to those innocent civilians caught in the crossfire.
“Peace can achieve wonders that wars never will.” — António Guterres
