Palestinian Hamas members stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages, including those held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023, attack, to members of the International Committee of the Red Cross as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025.
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 ...