LONDON, (PIC)
A report by independent researchers in the US and Britain has warned that tens of thousands could still die in the Gaza Strip within months, even if the Israeli aggression stops, due to the health crisis resulting from the war.
The report, which was prepared by academics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health in the United States, said, “If the fighting escalates and there are significant disease outbreaks, roughly 85,570 people might die by early August, with 68,650 deaths related to traumatic injuries.”
The report estimates that “Even with a ceasefire, about 11,580 people could still die in the same period if a disease outbreak compounds the challenges of rebuilding the sanitation and health system in Gaza. Roughly 3,250 of these deaths would be attributed to long-term complications from trauma injuries, and 8,330 from other causes.”
The researchers projected, “if the fighting continues or escalates, traumatic injuries will make up the majority of excess deaths in Gaza. But deaths from malnutrition, infectious diseases like cholera and a lack of access to care for conditions like diabetes will also kill thousands.”
Since October 7, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, with US and European support, leading to the martyrdom of 29,692 people and the injury of 69,879 others, in addition to the displacement of more than 85 percent (about 1.9 million people) of the Strip’s population, according to official authorities and international bodies.
