Luxembourg announced plans to support global conflict zones by sending medical supplies and potentially treating patients from Gaza, as Health Minister Martine Deprez addressed humanitarian concerns at the WHO Regional Committee in Copenhagen on Tuesday.

Luxembourg is currently evaluating the option to send medical supplies to conflict zones across the globe and prepare for the transfer of patients from the Gaza Strip to national hospitals for treatment. Authorities made the announcement in a press release issued on Tuesday morning in the context of the 74th WHO Regional Committee for Europe in Copenhagen, which Health Minister Martine Deprez is attending.

Specifics on how many patients could be treated in Luxembourg and the exact time frame for when this could happen remain unclear at present.

During the debate on health in the European region, attended by health ministers from across the bloc, as well as senior delegates and organisations from 53 European countries, Minister Deprez voiced the concerns of the Luxembourg government over escalating conflicts and their humanitarian and health impacts, especially in Ukraine, Gaza, and recently Lebanon.

The meeting took place simultaneously with Israel facing an international backlash after its parliament voted overwhelmingly to ban UNRWA, the main United Nations aid agency working with Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 43,061 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, which the United Nations considers reliable, triggering warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe.