CairoThe collective punishment inflicted by the Israeli army on the Gaza Strip has reached an unprecedented scale. The bombs began to fall on October 7 itself – hours after Hamas launched its attack on communities near the Strip, which killed 1,200 people and ended up with 300 kidnapped – and have not stopped doing so since then day and night Israel has missiles and bombs with enough power to go through buildings, as they are designed to try to penetrate the network of tunnels that Hamas has underground. That is why the degree of devastation is brutal, with entire neighborhoods wiped out and a population that no longer has anywhere to take refuge.
The figures of the devastation leave no room for doubt: life in Gaza today is hell. And not only because of the number of dead, which already rises above 41,600, but because of the humanitarian catastrophe situation in which the survivors live. The 2.2 million Palestinians who live in this open-air prison have almost all become internally displaced, in a space that has similar dimensions to the Maresme region. 96% of the population is at risk of malnutrition, because, as governments such as Egypt have denounced, Israel is using hunger as a weapon of war. Humanitarian aid trickles in due to the blockade maintained by Israel. The bombings have destroyed the health infrastructure, and diseases that were eradicated, such as polio, have re-emerged. And repeated military attacks on schools and hospitals have left a collapsed health system unable to cope with the magnitude of the disaster.
Gaza hospitals are out of service
17 are still partially functioning
Palestinian fatalities*
dead identified, of which
Palestinian patients need evacuation
medical to receive treatment abroad
critical patients evacuated (until August 26)
missing persons
or under the rubble for the
destruction
of infrastructures
humanitarian missions
until September with the
coordination
of the authorities
israeli
students have
left
school
of school buildings
are severely damaged
(493 of 564)
of destroyed or seriously damaged buildings
(figures from the Ministry of Public Works and
Housing of September)
of commercial facilities
(World Bank figures for the month of January)
of the road network
(UNOSAT figures for the month of August)
of people in crisis of food insecurity,
of which:
children will require treatment for acute malnutrition
in levels of emergency
of them women and of children between 6 and 23 months
they do not cover their nutritional needs
of farmland
have suffered damage
of the fishing fleet
has been destroyed
Palestinian fatalities*
dead identified, of which
missing persons
or under the rubble for the
destruction
of infrastructures
humanitarian missions
until September with the
coordination
of the authorities
israeli
Gaza hospitals are out of service
17 are still partially functioning
Palestinian patients need evacuation
medical to receive treatment abroad
critical patients evacuated (until August 26)
students have
left
school
of school buildings
are severely damaged
(493 of 564)
of destroyed or seriously damaged buildings
(figures from the Ministry of Public Works and
Housing of September)
of commercial facilities
(World Bank figures for the month of January)
of the road network
(UNOSAT figures for the month of August)
of people in crisis of food insecurity,
of which:
in levels of emergency
children will require treatment for acute malnutrition
of them women and of children between 6 and 23 months
they do not cover their nutritional needs
of farmland
have suffered damage
of the fishing fleet
has been destroyed
Palestinian fatalities*
dead identified, of which
missing persons
or under the rubble for the
destruction
of infrastructures
humanitarian missions
until September with the
coordination
of the authorities
israeli
Gaza hospitals are out of service
17 are still partially functioning
Palestinian patients need evacuation
medical to receive treatment abroad
critical patients evacuated
(until August 26)
students have
left
school
of school buildings
are severely damaged
(493 of 564)
of destroyed or seriously damaged buildings
(figures from the Ministry of Public Works and
Housing of September)
of the facilities
commercial
(World Bank figures for the month of January)
of the road network
(UNOSAT figures for the month of August)
of people in crisis of insecurity
food, of which:
in levels of emergency
children will require treatment for acute malnutrition
of them women and of children between 6 and 11 p.m
months do not cover their needs
nutritional
of farmland
have suffered damage
of the fishing fleet
has been destroyed
Source: www.ara.cat
