Attacks targeting medical facilities, personnel and transport are prohibited under international humanitarian law.
Russia's war in Ukraine has unleashed at least 700 attacks on the nation's health care facilities and workers since the full-scale invasion began on Feb. 24, according to the World Health Organization.
"WHO has verified more than 700 attacks on health care, impacting facilities, supplies, transport, and other means, injuring and killing health care workers and patients," WHO's Ukraine representative, Dr. Jarno Habicht, told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.
The U.N. body also demands Israel be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
The ruling orders Israel to allow aid trucks loaded with food and supplies to enter Gaza unhindered "without delay."
WHO warns disease and hunger are at alarming levels in the Congo, where almost 10 million people are on the move.
The spending bill also has other 'key pro-Israel provisions' aimed at the U.N. and other international organizations.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
The humanitarian nightmare and attacks on civilians in Gaza dominated the U.N. Security Council's quarterly open debate.
Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
