UN warns widening Middle East conflict threatens health of millions

An injured Palestinian boy receives medical attention at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after an Israeli strike hit a school housing displaced people in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Oct. 10, 2024. A resident of a building damaged in an Israeli airstrike returns to collect his family's belongings in Beirut, Lebanon, on Oct. 11, 2024. FILE - A nurse administers polio vaccine drops to a young Palestinian patient at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 31, 2024,

United Nations human rights officials warn the widening conflict and military escalation across the Middle East are putting “the lives and well-being of potentially millions of people across the region at risk” and diminishing prospects for peace.