People affected by orders were invited to move to the coastal strip “already overcrowded” in Al Mawasi, according to the United Nations Bureau for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ochha), Tuesday evening.
Al Mawasi near Khan Younis is missing “the basics of survival,” insisted the United Nations agency. He also experienced nearly two dozen strikes on displaced gasans reflected in tents between March 18 and April 11, the United Nations Human Rights Office said.
While the war drags well in its 21st month, the most vulnerable people in Gaza continue to fight to survive.
Emergency dialysis
They understand Musbah Zaqqout, 70, one of the 230 patients receiving vital dialysis at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Its treatment was disrupted by persistent supply shortages which reduced the sessions from three to two per week at the end of last month, the United Nations World Organization (WHO) warned Tuesday.
“He suffered a lot when dialysis was not available,” said Mr. Zaqout’s wife Saadia. “It is enough and was often admitted to the hospital, to the point where he fell into a coma, lost the accent and recognized anyone. »»
With the support of the KS Relief partner organization, which has delivered dialysis and fuel supplies for the Al-Shifa hospital, so that it can resume the treatment of dialysis and other rescue services.
“Thank goodness, after restarting dialysis, her condition has improved,” said Ms. Zaqqout, While the United Nations health agency has reiterated its calls to a sustained entry of food, fuel and health aid at the scale of all possible routes.
“Critical shortages of fuel and medical supplies persist across Gaza,” warned. “Without urgent and supported replenishment, health services are likely to stop.”
Children’s malnutrition tragedy
Echoing these concerns, the United Nations Agency for Palestinians, UNRWAwarned Wednesday that it is increasingly difficult to help Gazans. Already, one in 10 of the children brought to his clinics suffer from malnutrition. The condition was unknown in the enclave before the war, but it more than doubled in children under the age of five between March and June, in the middle of the Israeli seat almost total.
“It becomes more and more difficult for us to continue to provide services,” said Louise Waterridge of UNRWA. “At least 188 UNRWA installations-more than half of all our installations in the Gaza Strip-are located in the Israeli-militarized area, under travel orders, or where these overlaps.”
In an update, Ms. Waterridge said that only six UNRWA health centers and 22 of the agency’s medical points remain operational today, in addition to 22 mobile medical points inside and outside the shelters.
According to the United Nations agency, almost 60% of essential medical supplies are now out of stock. “Children die before our eyes because we do not have medical supplies or sustained foods to treat them,” he said.
Key drugs are exhausted
Consequently direct of the Israeli blockade on Gaza which started on March 2, UNRWA said that it had ” Now, short of “drugs for high blood pressure, antiparasitic and antifungal medicine, drugs for eye infections and inflammation, all skin treatments and oral antibiotics for adults.
Providing water specific to the warpart by war remains a massive challenge and only two main water wells of UNRWA still work. Ten were operational before the war. 41 Other small wells are operational in UNRWA shelters.
In the past two months in North Gaza, UNRWA has been forced to stop providing water and sanitation services to around 25,000 people displaced in shelters, due to travel orders issued by Israeli forces.
“Restrictions on fuel entry continue to place rescue services at a serious risk,” said the United Nations Agency. “Water critical services are at risk of closing if sustained fuel supplies are not allowed.”
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