World Health Organization Conceals Hamas Abuses, Misrepresents Israeli Counterterrorism

On his first day in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump made a decisive move, announcing the United States’ intent to withdraw from the World Health Organization. His executive order pointed to the agency’s botched response to the Covid-19 pandemic, its troubling susceptibility to Chinese political pressure, and the outsized financial burden it places on American taxpayers. But beyond these high-profile failures lies a quieter, more insidious scandal: the WHO’s systematic effort to obscure Hamas’s exploitation of hospitals in the Gaza Strip. This travesty demands far louder condemnation.

The evidence of Hamas’s commandeering of Gaza’s medical infrastructure is overwhelming and beyond dispute. The terrorist organization has transformed hospitals into command centers, weapons stockpiles, and active combat zones — an abuse so blatant it defies denial. Yet, the WHO and its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, have churned out hundreds of public statements and social-media posts decrying Israel’s supposed “assault” on Gaza’s health-care system. Ghebreyesus has taken his advocacy to the loftiest stages — the United Nations Security Council, Lebanon, and Qatar — without ever acknowledging the well-documented allegations of Hamas’s infiltration.

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Avraham Russell Shalev

Avraham Russell Shalev is a researcher at the Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem, specializing in international public and constitutional law.

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On his first day in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump made a decisive move, announcing the United States’ intent to withdraw from the World Health Organization. His executive order pointed to the agency’s botched response to the Covid-19 pandemic, its troubling susceptibility to Chinese political pressure, and the outsized financial burden it places on American taxpayers. But beyond these high-profile failures lies a quieter, more insidious scandal: the WHO’s systematic effort to obscure Hamas’s exploitation of hospitals in the Gaza Strip. This travesty demands far louder condemnation.

The evidence of Hamas’s commandeering of Gaza’s medical infrastructure is overwhelming and beyond dispute. The terrorist organization has transformed hospitals into command centers, weapons stockpiles, and active combat zones — an abuse so blatant it defies denial. Yet, the WHO and its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, have churned out hundreds of public statements and social-media posts decrying Israel’s supposed “assault” on Gaza’s health-care system. Ghebreyesus has taken his advocacy to the loftiest stages — the United Nations Security Council, Lebanon, and Qatar — without ever acknowledging the well-documented allegations of Hamas’s infiltration.