The Situation in Gaza Is ‘Beyond Catastrophic’
Israeli bombardments increase as aid flows at a trickle
The humanitarian situation is deteriorating quickly for the more than 2 million Palestinians who call Gaza home, according to a prominent medical doctor who is also an advocate for refugees.
More than 4,000 people have been killed inside Gaza since the Israeli military began airstrikes earlier this month in retaliation for the attacks of October 7 which Hamas launched from Gaza.
Home to more than 2 million Palestinians — half of whom are children — Gaza ranks as the third most densely populated political jurisdiction in the world.
It’s been under Israeli and Egyptian blockade for years, which has devastated Gaza's economy and caused a nearly 50-percent poverty rate and one of the highest unemployment rates in the world.
Conditions are so restricted and poor that Gaza is often referred to as an “open-air prison.”
And all that was before the latest round of Israeli bombardments, where spokespeople have said that the Israeli military will “deepen” and “increase” its strikes on Gaza.
Although aid was allowed into Gaza, from Egypt, for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war erupted, the United Nations called the assistance a “drop in the ocean” of what's needed.
“What I am hearing is the situation is much worse than last time we talked. It is beyond catastrophic. Everything is running out, including hope, electricity, of course, diesel fuel, that is necessary to operate generators in the hospital,” said Dr Zaher Sahloul, president of MedGlobal, a humanitarian charitable non-governmental organization. “Hospitals can go back to the Middle Ages where you don’t have access to ventilators, or monitors, or elevators, or even IV pumps. Doctors have been rationing everything.”
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