According to the UN, 70 percent of the population has been displaced since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip. Emergency shelters are sometimes four times full than their capacity. The UN said on Tuesday that conditions were inhumane and would continue to deteriorate by the day.
In total, more than 1.2 million people are said to be housed in approximately 240 UN facilities. Just over two million people live in the Gaza Strip. In the emergency shelters, each person would have less than two square meters of space. According to the UN, at least 600 people share one toilet. Thousands of cases of infectious diseases, diarrheal diseases and chickenpox have already occurred.
Restrictions on medical aid should be lifted, WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said on Tuesday. Doctors sometimes have to operate on people without anesthesia. The hospitals are also overloaded, according to an American nurse from the aid organization Doctors Without Borders. Children with massive burns on their faces, necks and all limbs would be immediately released and sent to refugee camps without access to running water.
Water and food limited
“They get two hours of water every 12 hours,” said nurse Emily Callahan. There are four toilets at the center in Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip, which is run by the Palestinian aid agency UNRWA. Callahan and her team asked friends for help in obtaining food and water themselves. “When I say that without them we would have starved, I am not exaggerating.”
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 16 medical workers have died while working in the Gaza Strip. The Russian government has now called for “humanitarian pauses” to allow aid deliveries to the population. Russia will maintain contacts with Israel, Egypt and the Palestinians to ensure aid can be brought to the Gaza Strip, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced.
The Israeli army has been attacking the Gaza Strip since militants from the Palestinian militant organization Hamas entered southern Israel on October 7. Hamas killed 1,400 people and kidnapped 240 others (see video above).
Source: Krone
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