Head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege Jamal al-Khudari on Monday called on Arab Red Crescent societies and concerned international organizations to urgently send medical aid to Gaza to save its collapsing health sector.
Al-Khudari said in statements that Gaza hospitals have unprecedentedly run out of 50% of much-needed drugs and medical supplies.
Al-Khudari pointed out that 80% of the Gaza Strip residents live below the poverty line with $2 per capita daily income adding that food insecurity rate in the besieged enclave has reached 60%.
He said that over a quarter of a million Gazan workers are currently unemployed noting that about one million refugees live on limited aid from UNRWA which is suffering from accumulated fiscal deficit due to US and Israeli pressures.
The Palestinian official continued to say that 25% of the homes that were completely destroyed during the 2014 Israeli offensive on Gaza have not been reconstructed yet because of the lack of funding and building materials.
Moreover according to al-Khudari 95% of Gaza’s water is undrinkable while the two million residents of the besieged territory suffer from power outages that last for 18-20 hours a day.
