Israel UN: Hardly any help for people in the Gaza Strip

According to the UN, the already difficult care of the sick and wounded in the Gaza Strip is becoming even more complicated due to new expulsions by the Israeli military. Humanitarian facilities would then have to close and leave the people to their fate, wrote the UN emergency aid office OCHA.

Earlier this week, Israel called on the residents of an area in Chan Junis to flee. According to OCHA estimates, 150,000 people fled their emergency shelters before the Israeli military moved in. "Many were seen traveling without any personal belongings," OCHA said. There were four medical facilities and eight soup kitchens and food distribution centers in the area. All but one community kitchen had been forced to close.

According to Israeli sources, Israeli forces were attacked from the area.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), only 16 of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip can still operate with restrictions. Of ten field hospitals, four are still fully operational and a further four are operating with restrictions.

The polio virus responsible for polio was discovered in sewage. In the unhygienic conditions with few toilets and insufficient drinking water, tens of thousands of people are suffering from diarrhea and skin rashes. Dust from the destroyed buildings triggers respiratory infections.

Mountains of garbage are piling up everywhere due to a lack of diesel for trucks to transport it away. Faeces and sewage are floating through the streets, some of it unfiltered, because there is also a lack of diesel for the generators of the sewage plants.

SDA