Gaza children suffer multiple injuries – many suffer from skin diseases

With extremely limited resources, doctors in these medical tents do their best to meet the needs of children with skin diseases.

Children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from skin diseases such as scabies, chickenpox and rashes, Anadolu Agency reported on Wednesday.

Due to the lack of a sanitation system in Gaza, Israeli occupation forces During the 10-month attack, all hospitals and clinics were hit. Temporary health centres were set up.

The town of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip is home to thousands of Palestinians who are fleeing Israeli military attacks in crowded streets or temporary Tents in makeshift camps across the city.

A skin disease caused by lack of hygiene and food, especially in children. #Gaza In recent weeks, the disease has made life even harder for children who are restless and sleepless because of the war. And this, like all atrocities, is caused by #Israel pic.twitter.com/Qvi41t25o9

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Due to overcrowding, lack of minimal sanitation measures and the intrusion of wastewater into the streets, diseases followed, especially attacking the most vulnerable group – children.

With extremely limited resources, doctors in these medical tents do their best to meet the needs of children with skin diseases.

“As the camp population grows and infrastructure in the area deteriorates, wastewater has been flowing into living areas, warning that sanitary conditions cannot be guaranteed in an area with limited water supplies. Doctor Sami Ahmed, one of the few medical staff in the health tent, told Anadolu Agency.

As a result, the incidence of skin diseases such as scabies, chickenpox and rashes has increased significantly among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the doctor added.

He went on to explain that wastewater flowing from the streets and seeping into the tents causes an increase in insect populations, which can cause various diseases, and skin burns due to the summer heat.

Skin diseases are spreading rapidly in Gaza due to poor living conditions.

The situation is further exacerbated by overcrowded tents, high temperatures, lack of water and a lack of basic nutritious food.

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Ongoing genocide

Israel has faced international condemnation as it continues its brutal offensive against Gaza in defiance of a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.

Israel, which is currently on trial in the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip since October 7.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 39,677 Palestinians Killed91,645 people have been injured in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza that began on October 7.

In addition, at least 11,000 people remain missing in the Gaza Strip, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes.

Israel said that 1,200 soldiers and civilians died in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7. Israeli media reported that many Israelis were killed by “friendly fire” that day.

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Palestinian and international organizations said most of the dead and injured were women and children.

The Israeli war led to severe famine, mainly in northern Gaza, and killed many Palestinians, most of them children.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the displacement of nearly 2 million people across the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely populated southern city of Rafah near the Egyptian border, the largest Palestinian exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

In the later stages of the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began to migrate from southern Gaza to central Gaza in search of safety.

(Anadolu Agency, PC)