GAZA, (PIC)
About 10% of the population of the Gaza Strip was killed, injured, or went missing during the 293-day genocide carried out by Israel in the Gaza Strip since October 7, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor revealed in a statement issued on Thursday.
The Euro-Med preliminary statistics indicate that about 50,000 Palestinians were killed, or reported missing under the rubble of the destroyed buildings, or their bodies are still on the roads or in border areas or completely destroyed and cannot be recovered, while more than about 100,000 others were injured. The majority of these civilian victims are children and women, while about 3,000 Palestinians disappeared after they were arrested from the Gaza Strip, and their fate remains unknown.
The estimates provided by Euro-Med are based on data and statistics gathered by its field teams from Gaza’s neighborhoods and camps, as well as information received from relevant authorities and institutions, including several hospitals and medical teams.
These indicate that at least 51,000 people have died as a result of the Israeli blockade of the entire Gaza Strip, denial of medical care, collapse of the health sector due to targeting and blockade, severe weakness in ambulance services, severe shortage of basic medicines, particularly for patients with chronic illnesses and cancer, prevention of travel abroad for treatment, and the spread of infectious diseases and epidemics.
Accordingly, the natural death rate increased from an estimated 3.5 per 1,000 people prior to the start of the genocide campaign to 22 per 1,000 people during the genocide campaign.
The number of beds available in operating hospitals and field hospitals across the Gaza Strip is currently less than 1,500, which is insufficient to accommodate the needs of over two million people. This is in contrast to the 3,500 beds that were available prior to October 7.
The scarcity of medical supplies and equipment is making the bed shortage worse, as is the Israeli army’s ongoing, systematic, and widespread destruction of hospitals and health facilities. Additionally, there has been a notable rise in the number of wounded and sick, which has resulted in a weak medical response and serious health complications for the wounded and sick, as well as avoidable deaths among the elderly.
The Euro-Med called for putting pressure on Israel to reopen the main water pipelines that enter the Gaza Strip, particularly those that enter from the north of the Strip, as well as to guarantee the safety of technicians and give them the chance to repair and restore the water lines and their various sources while also keeping up sanitation facilities and services.
Pressure should also be applied to Israel to ensure that enough fuel is imported to run the water and sanitation infrastructure, which includes stations, water desalination plants, water wells, and mobile water cycles, and to enter the necessary supplies for repair and rehabilitation work on civilian infrastructure, it added.
