WHO sends first overland convoy from emergencies hub to Beirut

The UN health agency has dispatched 22 metric tonnes of "life-saving medicines and trauma and emergency supplies", Tedros said on X. The supplies are enough to support treatment for 50,000 patients, including 40,000 surgical interventions, he said. "This is the first land convoy dispatched through a multi-country land bridge from WHO's Global Logistics Hub in Dubai, which has established a new route to keep supplies moving amid growing logistics disruptions across the Middle East region," said Tedros.