CAIRO, Oct. 15 -- More than 1,530 people died in the 632 attacks on health care that the World Health Organization verified across the Eastern Mediterranean between July 2025 and June 2026, which is 86 percent of all deaths from such attacks anywhere in the world.

The figures come from the annual report the WHO presented to health ministers from the region's 22 countries and territories this week in Cairo, at the 73rd session of its Eastern Mediterranean Regional Committee. The region holds nine percent of the world's people and nearly half of those who need humanitarian aid, 117 million as of June, according to WHO. The organization said it was responding to 14 graded emergencies there, eight at the highest level.

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