The World Health Organization said a staff member was released on Sunday, more than four weeks after being detained in Gaza by Israeli forces.
"Extremely relieved that our colleague, detained since 21 July in Gaza, was released this morning," agency Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X. He reiterated a call for protection of all WHO staff and personnel, and health and humanitarian workers.
In July, the United Nations agency said the Israeli military had attacked its staff residence and main warehouse in the Gazan city of Deir al-Balah.
During that time, the WHO said that two of its staff members and two family members were detained by Israeli forces.
Three were later released, while one staff member remained in detention.
Global hunger monitor declares famine in Gaza
Last week, a global hunger monitor determined that famine had struck an area of Gaza and would likely spread over the next month.
Israeli officials condemned the report as false, arguing that it was spreading blood libel against the Jewish state.
“Unbelievably, the IPC twisted its own rules and ignored its own criteria just to produce false accusations against Israel: the IPC changed its own global standard, cutting the 30% threshold to 15% for this report only, and totally ignored its second criterion of death rate, solely to serve Hamas’s fake campaign,” the Foreign Ministry wrote.
The WHO describes the health sector in Gaza as being "on its knees", with shortages of fuel, medical supplies, and frequent mass casualty influxes.
Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.