Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip have killed more than a hundred Palestinians since Monday, according to the last count of the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian enclave. In addition, five other bodies were recovered from the debris in the last hours, Health reported.
The Palestinian authorities estimated last week in 2,500 bodies that still remain among the debris, which civil defense teams cannot access, in most cases, because they are under orders of forced displacement.
The intensity of the Israeli attacks and the lack of heavy machinery also complicates these rescue tasks, which would be expedited if the fire came, as the director of the unit in charge of the Deaths of Health Deaths, Zaher al Waheidi, recently told Efe.
As for the injured, in the last 24 hours more than 200 have reached the few hospitals that continue to work in the strip, because in the northern region there is any operational, according to a health note.
First of this Tuesday, Israeli troops have launched bombings against different neighborhoods of Ciudad de Gaza, the capital of the enclave, killing more than a dozen people.
Among the victims are three civilians who died in an attack with Israeli drones near the Shaaban al Rayyes school, in the Al Tuffah neighborhood, east of the Gazati capital, according to the Palestinian news agency, Wafa.
In the same neighborhood, at least another 14 people were trapped among the rubble after an Israeli attack against a home, civil defense teams indicated.
In Rafah, at the southern end of the strip, according to Wafa, two women were shot dead by Israeli forces near one of the controversial food distribution centers managed by the Humanitarian Foundation for Gaza (GHF), backed by the United States and Israel.
Since the beginning of the Israeli offensive, more than 58,479 Gazatis have died, most women and children, and more than 139,355 have been injured, many with mutilations and injuries for life, according to health.
Heat, an extra
In addition, WN the entire Gaza Strip, the abrasing heat has aggravated the humanitarian crisis and the shortage of water, the deficiencies of the sanitation and the lack of space threaten public health, when more than 1.7 million displaced Palestinians already suffer a serious shortage of medical care, food and basic supplies after months of war between Israel and Hamas.
Medical workers claim that the increase in temperatures is worsening the status of patients who take refuge in the overcrowded campaign camps, where access to treatment is limited and many lack relief against heat.
The situation is especially serious for thousands of people who need continued attention for burns and other serious injuries. Mohammed al Mamlouka, who was injured at the beginning of the conflict, affirms that each treatment session becomes a painful ordeal, since medical teams face the shortage of analgesics and medical supplies. “The heat pain of summer is unbearable. If it were winter I would not feel the pain, I could simply sleep after taking my medication. Now I need a higher dose, but the hospitals do not have it,” he said. “It is a very hard situation. We do not even have a fan. We suffer the lack of care in this store, it is not a place for a patient,” he explains in .
Ahmad Awad, another displaced that recovers from the operation of a serious foot injury, said healing seems impossible. “I feel extreme heat on my feet, sometimes I scratch them until my skin torn just to relieve pain,” he said. “The store is incredibly hot and, as you can see, we barely fit my children and me.”
“Heat and humidity cause sweat, which accelerates bacterial growth, which delays recovery. We do what we can with what we have, but with the closure of the borders, many essential tools are simply not available”
Medical staff states that heat is making the recovery of many patients difficult, especially those suffering from burns, which would require months of care in adequate clinical conditions. “The summer heat delays the healing of burns, since the temperature worsens injuries. We advise patients to avoid heat sources, but within stores that is impossible,” explains the doctor has Salman.
“Heat and humidity cause sweat, which accelerates bacterial growth, which delays recovery. We do what we can with what we have, but with the closure of the borders, many essential tools are simply not available,” he adds.
Doctors claim that survival rates of patients with burns that cover 70% of the body can exceed 50%, but that this figure has decreased even more during the war. They cite the lack of specialized operating rooms, limited access to skin grafts and the need to ration attention amid the increase in victims.
The abrasor summer coincides with the lack of drinking water for the majority of the population of Gaza, which lives displaced in communities of tents. Many Palestinians of the enclave must walk long distances to collect water and ration each drop.
Israel had blocked the entry in gaza of food, fuel, medicines and all other supplies for almost three months, before May began to allow entry into the strip of limited aid, in what he said it was an attempt to prevent Hamas militants from taking advantage of the war and strengthened the group.
