The region is running out of water and fuel, hospitals are overcrowded, and there are piles of garbage on the streets, threatening the spread of infections.
In just 24 hours, the situation in the Gaza Strip will become “totally out of control” if humanitarian aid is not allowed there. Fuel and water supplies were left for 24 hours, after which a “real disaster” would follow. This was announced on Monday, October 16, by the regional head of the World Health Organization, Ahmed al-Mandhari, France 24 reports.
A blackout in Gaza could damage life-support systems, from seawater desalination plants to food refrigeration plants and hospital incubators.
Mandhari warned that if Gaza does not receive aid soon, doctors will have to “prepare death certificates for their patients.” Hospitals there are overcrowded – they are on the verge of collapse, the WHO representative added.
According to him, more than 2,000 patients are being treated in 22 hospitals in northern Gaza. And in the absence of fuel and electricity, doctors will be forced to make “impossible choices” and “sort incoming patients.” Therefore, some traumatized people will die a slow death, says Mandhari.
Local residents say that even daily activities such as going to the bathroom, showering and washing clothes are almost impossible. They are forced to drink salty, untreated tap water. Some are digging wells near the sea, writes Reuters.
In addition, garbage accumulates in the streets of Gaza, which threatens the spread of infections and diseases.
Convoys with international aid are waiting near the Gaza-Egypt border, but they are not allowed closer than the Egyptian city of El-Arish, located 50 kilometers from the Rafah checkpoint.
Earlier it was reported that up to 2,750 people were killed in the Gaza Strip.
We remind you that according to the Israeli military, Hamas militants are blocking the evacuation of the population of the Gaza Strip.
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Source: korrespondent
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