A TRUMP administration decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) has frozen $46 million (£36m) for its operations in Gaza, a top WHO official said today.

Dr Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO representative for Occupied Palestinian Territories, warned that the funding freeze would leave six key areas underfunded, including emergency medical teams, rehabilitation of health facilities, co-ordination with partner organisations and medical evacuations.

Speaking from Gaza at a United Nations briefing in Geneva, Dr Peeperkorn said that money for such operations remained in WHO’s funding pipeline and “we’re still going full steam ahead” with activities.

Internally displaced Palestinians are still struggling to restart their lives in the ruins of Gaza.

Nearly 600,000 people have returned to northern Gaza since the ceasefire began a month ago, according to the UN.

Rawia Tambora, a mother of two from Beit Lahiya, was among those who returned to her home after sheltering at the Indonesia Hospital where she worked as a nurse.

She and her children now live in the only semi-intact room in their house.

The ceiling is partially collapsed, the walls are cracked and there is no electricity or running water.

Ms Tambora said she uses a torch to comfort her young son at night adding: “Some people wish the war had never ended, feeling it would have been better to be killed.

“I don’t know what we’ll do long-term. My brain stopped planning for the future.”

Tess Ingram, a spokeswoman with Unicef who recently visited northern Gaza, said the families she met are “grieving the lives that they used to live as they begin to rebuild.”

Their desperation “is becoming more intense.”

The six-week ceasefire is set to expire on Saturday.

A joint report by the World Bank, the UN and the European Union last week estimated that rebuilding Gaza would cost approximately $53 billion (£42bn) after entire neighbourhoods were destroyed by Israeli bombardment.

Meanwhile, an Israeli lawmaker has called for mass executions of Palestinian men in Gaza and the destruction of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

Nissim Vaturi, Knesset deputy speaker and a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, told ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol BaRama on Sunday that Palestinian men in Gaza should be separated from women and children and killed.

He went on to claim that “no-one in the world wants the civilians in Gaza” and described them as “scum and subhumans.”

Mr Vaturi also called for the destruction of Jenin, which is currently under a brutal Israeli military siege.

On Monday, Israeli tanks entered the city and its refugee camp as part of an ongoing assault.