In the Palestinian Gaza Strip, where Israel continues to carry out military operations, many medical facilities have also been damaged, affecting the treatment of injured civilians.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for medical aid as hepatitis A infection is spreading.
The Israeli military, aiming to destroy the Islamic organization Hamas, continues to carry out air strikes and ground operations across a wide area of the Gaza Strip, targeting fighters from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, an armed group allied with Hamas, in Gaza City in the north. It was announced on the 19th that he had been killed.
Meanwhile, Middle Eastern satellite television station Al Jazeera reported that 15 people were killed in airstrikes on residential areas in Gaza City, and health authorities in the Gaza Strip said the death toll as of the 18th had risen to 24,620.
Many medical facilities in the Gaza Strip have also been damaged by the fighting, and according to the Palestinian Health Authority, only 15 of the 36 hospitals in the Strip are even partially operational.
Intense fighting continues in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, and the international NGO Doctors Without Borders has called it a ``tragic situation,'' as many civilians have been killed or injured and treatment is not keeping pace.
Furthermore, local media reports on the difficult current situation, with medical supplies in short supply leading to surgeries being performed without anesthetics and salt being applied to wounds instead of disinfectant.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said thousands of people in the area could be infected with hepatitis A due to lack of access to clean water and poor hygiene conditions, and said support such as sufficient medicines was needed. I'm calling.