The World Health Organization has expressed concern over an anticipated Israeli assault on Rafah.

In a social media post, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has expressed apprehensions of a full-scale incursion into Rafah, where over a million people are sheltering in crowded conditions, lacking food, water, medicine.

He asked Israel to consider the humanitarian implications and reiterated his call for a ceasefire and peace to prevail.