Health Disaster in the Gaza Strip
The health crisis facing the Palestinian people is a serious concern, since infectious diseases are spreading throughout the population and posing a threat to the Zionist occupation's genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. In addition to hunger and thirst, Palestinians in Gaza are dying from diseases brought on by these natural calamities, the collapse of the healthcare system, and air, land, and sea travel.
All facets of life in the Strip are being destroyed by Israeli occupation troops in an effort to push Gazans to flee, including the remnants of the hospital system, which denies the populace access to essential medical care. They continue to block the admission of humanitarian aid that is required to properly combat infectious diseases and epidemics. The ongoing destructive Israeli military attacks are rapidly exacerbating the health and environmental disasters, with dire and catastrophic consequences for the population's health, particularly for children, newborns, the elderly, and those with chronic illnesses, who are most affected by this health catastrophe.
Residents of Gaza receive significantly less clean water than necessary as a result of the city's steadily rising temperatures, the majority of the main water pipelines malfunctioning, and considerable damage to the sewage system. As a result, most are forced to consume tainted water that is unsafe to drink. The World Health Organization has warned for months that the Gaza Strip faces a complete health and environmental catastrophe and links the rise of diseases including cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, and viral hepatitis to poor sewage facilities and contaminated water.
This is happening in the middle of Gaza's acute water crisis, which is getting worse due to rising temperatures, increased demand, and consumption. The majority of water wells have dried up because of fuel shortages and significant damage to desalination plants. Due to a lack of fuel and an overall electrical problem, sewage stations and water desalination facilities had to close, which raised the risk of bacterial infection because typhoid, polio, dysentery, and diarrhea are all diseases that can be transferred by polluted drinking water. The Israeli administration has cut off fuel and electrical supplies to Gaza and closed the pipelines that feed it with water since the start of the armed aggression.