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Days of Palestine
a day ago
- Health
- Days of Palestine
MSF: Gaza Injuries Have Tripled Daily Since Launch of GHF
DaysofPal- Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has revealed that the number of Palestinian injuries in the Gaza Strip has tripled on a daily basis since the launch of aid distribution centers run by the so-called 'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,' GHF, which is backed by the Israeli occupation and the United States. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, MSF's deputy medical coordinator in Gaza, said in a talk on Instagram that 'the health system in Gaza was already fragile before the war, and what remains now is merely a skeleton barely functioning.' Abu Mughaisib pointed out that the Israeli-backed food distribution points have turned into 'zones of killing.' He explained that these sites have caused the daily influx of wounded to triple compared with before their establishment, noting that many of the injured die before reaching Gaza's hospitals. 'We are seeing amputated limbs, severe infections, shattered bones, and torn arteries that require urgent surgery and intensive care,' Abu Mughaisib said, stressing that Gaza's remaining hospitals have seen their surgical and intensive care capacities collapse under the ongoing war. He emphasized the urgent need for an immediate ceasefire and sustained medical and humanitarian access to save what can still be saved, warning that without this, 'nothing will remain to be saved, not the hospitals, not the patients, not the future.' Since May 27, Israeli occupation forces have implemented a plan to distribute aid through the 'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,' an initiative rejected by the United Nations and several international relief organizations. According to official data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 1,924 civilians waiting for aid have been killed and more than 14,288 others injured by Israeli gunfire and assaults since the plan began. Shortlink for this post:
New Straits Times
3 days ago
- Health
- New Straits Times
Gaza's daily toll tripled as health system collapses
GAZA CITY/ISTANBUL: Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Saturday that the number of injured Palestinians by Israeli fire in Gaza has tripled since late May, as the territory's shattered health system struggles to cope, Anadolu Ajansi (AA) reported. MSF's deputy medical coordinator in Gaza, Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, said in a video message that food distribution centres set up under an Israeli- and US-backed body known as the Gaza Relief Organisation have turned into "areas of death" rather than safe points for civilians. "What remains of the health sector is only a fragile skeleton, and now it faces a new horror," he said, warning that many of the wounded never make it to hospitals alive. According to Gaza's Health Ministry, nearly 1,924 people have been killed and more than 14,000 injured while waiting for aid at such sites since May 27, when the Israeli-run scheme began. Abu Mughaisib described scenes of crushed bones, amputated limbs, torn arteries and severe infections, stressing that emergency surgery and intensive care, both already decimated by months of war, are collapsing in the few hospitals still functioning. He called for an immediate ceasefire and unfettered humanitarian access, saying without them "there will be nothing left to save, neither hospitals, nor patients, nor the future." Israel has killed 61,900 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. The military campaign has devastated the enclave and brought it to the verge of famine. Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
