In the Palestinian Gaza Strip, where Israel continues its military operations, many medical facilities have been damaged, affecting the treatment of injured civilians.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for medical aid as the infectious disease 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 19th had risen to 24,762.



Many medical facilities in the Gaza Strip have been damaged by the fighting, and according to Palestinian health authorities, only 15 of the district's 36 hospitals 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.

Lack of medicines “Surgery without anesthetics”

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.



The WHO warned on the 19th that more than 1.7 million people are living in crowded evacuation centers in the Gaza Strip, and sanitary conditions are seriously deteriorating.



Since mid-October last year, more than 150,000 people, including more than 80,000 children under the age of five, have suffered from diarrhea, more than 220,000 people have suffered from respiratory illnesses, and infectious diseases such as viral hepatitis have spread. As a result, we are calling for support such as improving the sanitary environment and providing medicines.

“Doctors Without Borders” “Nowhere is safe”

On the 19th, Médecins Sans Frontières, an international NGO that continues medical activities in the Gaza Strip, held a press conference in Cairo, the capital of Egypt.



Barrapelta, a medical team leader who has been working at a hospital in the Gaza Strip, said that earlier this month, while working at a hospital in the central region, he was forced to evacuate, leaving more than 700 patients behind because safety could not be ensured. He then reiterated the plight of the people, saying, ``There is no safe place anywhere in the Gaza Strip.The situation is getting worse day by day.''



Regarding the Israeli military's continued attacks on hospitals in the Gaza Strip, claiming that Hamas is based there, he said, ``What I saw was a large number of patients in the hospital. "There are thousands of evacuees in the area. Whatever their status, to me they are nothing but patients and evacuees," he said, calling for an immediate ceasefire and an end to attacks on hospitals and surrounding areas. I strongly appealed again.