WHO describes Gaza hospital as a ‘death zone’

A team from the World Health Organisation visited Al-Shifa hospital for the first time since Israeli troops moved into the complex, describing it as a ‘death zone’. Staff from the UN agency say they found corridors filled with waste and a mass grave at the hospital’s front entrance.

Also on the programme: Giant queues of lorries have built up on Poland’s border with Ukraine because of a protest by Polish truckers; and the advertising boycott against Elon Musk’s X is picking up steam, but what are the financial implications for the social media platform?

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss all this and more are Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch and now a visiting professor at Princeton University, and Bel Trew, chief international correspondent for the Independent.

(Rubbish piles up outside Al Shifa hospital during the Israeli ground operation around the hospital on November 12, 2023. Credit: El Mokhallalati/via Reuters)