Exhausted medical personnel starving in northern Gaza
The Ministry of Health in Gaza says exhausted medical personnel in the northern Strip continue to work around the clock but are under immense physical pressure as there is nothing to eat. More than 2,000 medical personnel working in northern Gaza will begin their Ramadan without having anything to eat for suhoor or iftar, it said.
“We call on international and relief institutions to provide ready-made meals to enable medical teams to carry out their work.”
Euro-Med Monitor: Gaza’s elderly dying at rapid rates
The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says as Israel continues to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip, the enclave’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The main causes are bombing, starvation, dehydration, malnutrition and lack of access to medical care.
The organisation said in a statement on Sunday that its team on the ground in Gaza “is recording nearly daily deaths among the elderly due to Israel’s systematic and pervasive crimes of starvation and treatment deprivation in the Gaza Strip, especially in Gaza City and the Strip’s northern regions”.
“The majority of these cases do not reach hospitals, which are only partially operational in northern Gaza because of the difficulty of access given the ongoing Israeli military attacks. Consequently, after dying at home, the elderly are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries.”
Death rate of elderly people in northern Gaza Strip soars due to bombing, starvation, dehydration, and lack of healthcare https://t.co/z9EVSsUAjv
— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) March 10, 2024
Israel claims 225 aid trucks sent to Gaza Strip today
Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) office says that 225 trucks carrying humanitarian aid were “inspected and transferred to Gaza today”. It said 134 of the trucks carried food, with the rest carrying water, medical supplies and shelter equipment.
“There is no limit to the amount of aid that can enter Gaza,” the organisation continues to claim despite condemnations by the UN and allies that Israel is not letting enough aid in. COGAT had said earlier that 120 aid trucks were coordinated to northern Gaza over the last week, where Israel has blocked most aid since the start of its war on Gaza.
A recent report by the humanitarian group Refugees International says that Israel has generated “famine-like conditions” in the Gaza Strip “while obstructing and undermining the humanitarian response”.
In addition, the Gaza Health Ministry has been reporting deaths from starvation in northern Gaza, the number of which stands at 25 after an infant and a young woman succumbed to malnutrition earlier today.
Every now and then Israel lets in 200+ trucks to boast about it. Here is the tracker for the real numbers. The average is going up again at least, but over 500 trucks a day are needed just to sustain the population, many more to reverse the conditions of starvation and malnutrition.
https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZTVkYmEwNmMtZWYxNy00ODhlLWI2ZjctNjIzMzQ5OGQxNzY5IiwidCI6IjI2MmY2YTQxLTIwZTktNDE0MC04ZDNlLWZkZjVlZWNiNDE1NyIsImMiOjl9&pageName=ReportSection3306863add46319dc574
The tracking site only lists 109 trucks entering Gaza today but likely not all updated yet.
