Gaza: an imminent health disaster … dead and wounded while searching for food

From Gaza, Dr. Thanus Garghavins, a surgeon of Redhouh and an emergency official at the World Health Organization, spoke to reporters in Geneva, saying: “Every day, we are on a thin line between the operational capacity and a comprehensive catastrophe.”

Dr. Thanus’s statements came in the midst of new reports on Tuesday morning that more Palestinians were killed while trying to get food, this time near a aid distribution site in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza. The representative of the World Health Organization on the occupied Palestinian land, Dr. Rick Biberkorn, said that the mass injuries had left Hundreds of victims, which confused Nasser Medical Complex completely. In Khan Yunis.

Discussion orders hold a health response

Throughout Gaza, there is a scarcity of health services and is difficult to access, as Dr. Biberkorn said, as more than 80 percent of Gaza’s lands are under eviction orders. Dr. Garghavanis added: “The shrinking of the human area makes every healthy activity much more difficult than the previous day.”

Nasser Medical Complex is the largest referral hospital in Gaza and the only remaining main hospital in Khan Yunis. It is part of the evacuation area announced by the Israeli army on June 12.

Al -Amal Hospital near – run by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society – continues to provide services to patients already in it, but it is unable to receive anyone else because of the ongoing military operations.

A deadly effect of fuel deficiency

Only 17 hospitals out of 36 hospitals are currently working in Gaza, and medical supplies are critically low, and no fuel has entered the sector for more than 100 days.

The recent collective injuries is the latest of its kind that includes the inhabitants of Gaza who are trying to obtain aid amid the severe restrictions imposed on the amount of aid allowed to enter the Strip by Israel.

On Monday, more than 200 patients arrived at the Red Cross Field Hospital at Ma’is Khan Yunis – the highest number received by the facility in one group injury. Of this number, 28 injured people were announced, according to Dr. Biberkorn of the World Health Organization.

Just one day ago – that is, on June 15 – the hospital itself received at least 170 patients, who reported that they were trying to reach a food distribution site.

Dr. Garghavanis of the World Health Organization said: “The recent food distribution initiatives by United Nations -affiliated bodies each time lead to mass injuries.”

When asked about the type of injuries that the aid seekers suffered, and from the official, Dr. Garghavanis stressed that the World Health Organization is not a forensic agency. He added: “We are not in a situation that clearly determines the nature of the injury to the one who caused it. What we can say is that we are talking about gunshot injuries, and we are talking about a very few shrapnel injuries.”

The United Nations has repeatedly warned that the new aid distribution system does not meet the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, independence and integrity. It also called on the international organization to raise aid restrictions.

Dr. Biberkorn stressed the need to facilitate the work of the World Health Organization to transfer supplies to Gaza in an effective way in terms of “through all possible ways” to prevent further medical services. He said that 33 trucks belonging to the World Health Organization loaded with supplies are waiting in Al -Arish in Egypt to obtain a permit to pass to the sector, with 15 other trucks in the occupied West Bank.