The World Health Organization (WHO) stated this Friday that the health system in the Gaza Strip is at its limit and that time is running out to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.
“Hospitals only have electricity for a few hours a day, as they are forced to ration their depleting energy reserves,” the WHO said.
According to the Organization, the dependence on generators is total to maintain the most critical functions.
“However, these vital functions will also be disrupted within days, as fuel reserves are depleted, which would have a devastating impact on the most vulnerable patients, including the injured requiring surgery, patients in intensive care and newborns in incubators,” highlights the WHO.
The WHO reported that in all hospitals the priority is now on emergency care to save lives, which disrupts all other services, such as obstetric care, care for diseases such as cancer and heart disease, and treatment of infections common.
Those displaced in the Gaza Strip by the attacks of the Israeli army exceeded 423,000, 25% more than the previous day, reported the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA).
According to data provided by the Gaza Ministry of Health to the UN, another 317 Palestinians died in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number to 1,417 and without taking into account the people found under the rubble of the bombed buildings, nor the Militias killed during the incursion into Israeli territory last Saturday.
The injured Palestinians total 6,268 after the attacks that today enter their seventh day. The Islamist movement Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory on Saturday, called Operation “Al-Aqsa Storm”, with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed rebels on the ground. and sea. and air.
In response, Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in that Palestinian territory from the air, in an operation it called “Iron Swords.”
Source: TSF
