Iran Press/West Asia: The Health Ministry of Palestine in Gaza announced that since the beginning of the Israeli all-out war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, more than 40,400 Gazan residents were martyred and 93,486 others were wounded. The figures are beside the lives of hundreds of children claimed out of starvation and over 10,000 others gone missing.
Meanwhile, the World Food Program (WFP) expressed concern over the reduction in relief operations in Gaza, warning that 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are suffering from food shortages.
Still, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that 14,750 Palestinian children, aged between 6 months to 5 years, are suffering from severe malnutrition. WHO reported that from mid-January 2024 nearly 240,000 children have been identified in the very age scope who show malnutrition symptoms.
Despite the humanitarian organization's warnings and demands for the opening of the passages to Gaza for the prevention of the famine created due to the war on the strip, the Israeli regime's troops have still kept the Rafah and Karam Abu Salim passages closed.
The UN warned that more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are now confined in an area that is about a tenth of the total area of this strip, which is even smaller than the Manhattan neighborhood, New York City.
The UN estimated that as a result of the Zionist regime's forcing the people of Gaza to evacuate their lands and homes since the beginning of the current war, 90% of Gaza residents have been displaced several times.
According to the international bodies, including the very UN, a major part of Gaza's water infrastructure was harmed during the so-far 10 months war on Gaza which has enhanced the risk of disease spread in the strip.
The human rights experts believe that the Israeli regime exploits the cut-off of water as a weapon, along with other blockages, against the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza announced more than 1.7 million cases of infectious diseases registered in Gaza.
In addition, the medical infrastructure that has been harmed by the war now is going to be totally stopped every now and then due to the lack of fuel needed to run the electricity generators, a further danger threatening the lives of the 2.4 million residents of the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian health ministry also noted that there were currently about 20,000 patients and wounded people who are in need of treatment outside of Palestine but due to the blockage of the border passages by the Israeli regime, they have so far failed to leave Gaza, a barrier that has put their lives at stake.
The lack of medicine and medical facilities mingled with the high number of the wounded and patients in Gaza, in addition to the martyrdom and captivity of a large number of medical staff of the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, have exposed the remaining medical staff to fatigue and enhanced pressure.
Pictures and videos showing the escape of the patients and staff of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, the center of the Gaza Strip, were released after the order of the Zionist regime to evacuate the hospital and its surrounding areas.
The catastrophic images show the patients and their companions who try to reach a safe place as they are on hospital beds or wheelchairs.
According to the Palestinian Civil Defense Ministry, Israel's desired safe zones are shrinking day by day and have become so small that now reaches ten percent of the entire area of the Gaza Strip.
Still, Ray al-Youm Newspaper talks about these days' scandal that is all attention has focused on the Salah eD-Din axis and Netzarim in central Gaza and the children's death out of starvation have totally been ignored.
Backed by the US, the Israeli regime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has kept the Gazan children starved as a result of which more children are getting martyred day by day;
As if the destruction of hospitals and the torture of the displaced by forceful relocation is not such an important issue.
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