Gaza officials say 12,000 wounded Palestinians need medical help abroad
According to the Government Media Office, another 3,000 who are critically ill need to leave the besieged coastal enclave to get medical treatment.
The office also said:
- 12,500 cancer patients require treatment.
- 350,000 people with chronic illnesses need medicine that is not being allowed into Gaza by Israel.
- 1.7 million people have contagious diseases.
- More than 71,000 have hepatitis A.
- The health of 60,000 pregnant women is at risk due to lack of hygiene.
- A total 310 medical staff have been detained by Israeli soldiers.
- A total 162 medical facilities and 131 ambulances have been targeted by the Israeli army.
Israel launches ground offensive on Jabalia again, killing 17
The Israeli military has carried out intense bombardment in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing at least 17 people hours after forcing residents in the area to leave again during its third ground assault on the densely populated camp in northern Gaza since launching the war a year ago.
The Palestinian Civil Defence agency said on Sunday that the death toll included nine children following air attacks and as the army deployed tanks into the area for the first time in months.
Collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system due to Israeli attacks
Gaza’s healthcare system has collapsed in the year of Israel’s war.
Hospitals have been bombed, supplies blocked and medical staff attacked. A majority of Palestinians are in desperate need of healthcare as they battle hunger and disease.
“The health system in Gaza has been completely obliterated and the right to health has been decimated at every level,” Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN special rapporteur on the right to health, said.
“The attacks, the harassment, the killings of many of my own colleagues, the healthcare workers, the destructions of health facilities and the destruction of humanitarian aid organisations continue to catapult to proportions yet to be fully quantified if at all possible.”
