The ongoing conflict in Gaza has led to a humanitarian crisis, with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reporting to the UN Security Council that the healthcare system in Gaza is no longer functioning due to the war. Christopher Lockyear, head of MSF, highlighted the psychological impact on Palestinian children, noting that some as young as five have expressed a preference for death over their current living conditions, traumatized by the war. Research from Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine predicts grim death projections for the next six months, while a study suggests that even if a ceasefire is achieved, the damage to Gaza's health system could result in over 10,000 additional deaths. The war has left only a quarter of Gaza's 36 hospitals operating, partially at best, exacerbating the health crisis. The accumulation of garbage and waste, along with Israel's targeting of hospitals, has severely restricted access to healthcare for Gaza's population of around 2.5 million Palestinians. Statements from MSF describe the systematic disabling and obliteration of hospitals, and many doctors who have worked in other war zones say that conditions in Gaza are the worst they have seen, with the war lasting more than four months.
Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s hospitals has left its population of around 2.5 million Palestinians without adequate access to healthcare https://t.co/EcM3Ys0Tgl
After more than four months of war, only a quarter of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are operating—and those only partially. The war has already rendered much of the strip uninhabitable. The collapse of its health system will make that even harder to reverse https://t.co/wWU5S64OAM 👇
This week, researchers released a report that projects how many people will die in Gaza in the next six months. @IChotiner speaks with one of the author’s about why even a ceasefire scenario could see more than 10,000 additional excess deaths. https://t.co/leN7f4qwwO
Many doctors who have worked in other war zones say that conditions in Gaza are the worst they have seen. Even if a ceasefire can be agreed, the damage to the strip’s health system is so great that many more deaths will follow, a new study suggests https://t.co/Fp41XB5DEi 👇
The ongoing war in Gaza has exacerbated an already dire situation, with the accumulation of garbage and waste now posing a significant health threat to the people of Gaza. https://t.co/EOkL8GcnHL
Head of Doctors Without Borders at the UN: “We have watched the systematic obliteration of the health system we have supported for decades, the result of a war Israel is waging on the entire population of the Gaza Strip. Children as young as five tell us they’d prefer to die.… https://t.co/acbsfP9QYJ
The healthcare system in #Gaza is no longer functioning, the charity @MSF has told the UN Security Council in a strongly worded speech. “Instead of adherence to international law, we see the systematic disabling of hospitals,” they said https://t.co/tbxMb6UjLY
grim death projections in gaza over next six months via johns hopkins university/london school of hygiene & tropical medicine. https://t.co/IbJJNbHtd2
Watch: The head of NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Christopher Lockyear, tells the #UN that #Palestinian children as young as five in #Gaza have been traumatized by the war, and are telling the #MSF workers that “they would prefer to die.” Read more: https://t.co/WaLdUMTI6Y https://t.co/tavZLl0JiS