The World Health Organization (WHO) said this Wednesday that it fears that more people could They begin to die from diseases than from acts of war in the Gaza Stripdue to the spread of infectious diseases in the enclave.
The spread of diseases, according to WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris, can be quickly fatal for people with weakened bodies, especially children.
“We will begin to see More people die from diseases than from bombings If he minimum health needs are not satisfied again,” Margaret Harris warned.
At the start of the truce five days ago, the WHO carried out a rapid assessment of the situation in Gaza and identified the lack of food, water and sanitation as the most serious health problems.
The WHO also found the serious lack of health professionalswith the consequent absence of medical appointments, as well as the Pile of rubble around hospitals.which have also been used by civilians as shelters.
In this context, respiratory diseases and diarrhea are of great concern to the WHO, because a child who does not receive treatment, a very simple procedure in a normal situation, can die in a matter of hours from dehydration.
The evaluation of the hospitals revealed a very critical general situationalso due to the lack of fuel to function essential equipment and the Lack of all types of medications.
During the final days of the truce, which ends on Thursday, the WHO has been delivering medical supplies to Gaza, particularly equipment to treat those injured by the explosions.
Israel declared war on Hamas on October 7, following an attack by the Palestinian Islamist group that provoked the death of about 1,200 people and still took to the kidnapping of more than 240 in Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip.
Since then, Israel’s air, naval and ground forces have counterattacked in the Palestinian enclave, where more than 15,000 people have died, most of them children and women, according to authorities in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, estimating that more Seven thousand people are missing under the rubble.
Source: TSF
