Personal sanitario y salud en Palestina

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“Pregnancy and delivery. Born vulnerable. At least 165 children have died, painful, preventable deaths related to malnutrition during the genocide in the Gaza Strip”

Gaza's babies 'scarred by war before first breath' by malnutrition

Born into danger

 

The Lancet 23 Aug 2025

In the first 6 months of 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of Health logged only 17 000 livebirths, a 41% decline from the same period in 2022. In addition to pregnancies carried to term, 2600 pregnancies ended in miscarriage, 220 resulted in intrauterine fetal deaths, and 21 newborns died within 24 h. Premature births, congenital malformations, and low birthweight have become commonplace, as pregnant mothers face malnutrition and repeated forced displacement.

 

UNICEF, 9 Dec 2025

She warned that a far less reported crisis is unfolding among pregnant and breastfeeding women, with devastating consequences for newborns.

➤ The pattern: Malnourished mothers are giving birth to premature or underweight babies who die in neonatal units or survive with severe, lifelong health risks.

➤ Before the war (2022): About 250 babies per month were born underweight, roughly 5% of births.

➤ First half of 2025: Underweight births doubled to 10%, about 300 babies per month, despite fewer total births.

➤ July–September 2025: The figure surged to 460 babies per month, around 15 per day, nearly double pre-war levels.

Ingram said she met newborns weighing less than one kilogram, their chests heaving as they struggled to breathe. Low-birth-weight babies are 20 times more likely to die, yet Gaza’s hospitals lack the equipment needed to save them due to the destruction of the health system, the death and displacement of staff, and Israeli restrictions blocking essential medical supplies.

➤ First-day deaths: Babies dying within 24 hours rose 75%, from 27 per month in 2022 to 47 per month between July and September 2025.

➤ Maternal malnutrition: 38% of pregnant women screened had acute malnutrition. In October alone, UNICEF admitted 8,300 pregnant and breastfeeding women, about 270 per day, in a population with no discernible malnutrition before October 2023.

➤ Child treatment: UNICEF said 9,300 children under five were admitted for malnutrition treatment in October, with over 14,000 children currently enrolled.

“This domino effect from mother to child should have and could have been prevented,” Ingram said, adding that the crisis was caused by the conflict and exacerbated by Israeli aid restrictions, in violation of international humanitarian law.

 

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Nov 22, 2025
UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said that since the ceasefire agreement entered into force on October 11 in Gaza, an average of two children are being killed every day in the strip as a result of Israeli attacks.

Speaking during his weekly press briefing at the United Nations office in Geneva on Friday, Pires said that despite the ceasefire, a young girl was killed on Thursday in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis in southern Gaza, while seven children were killed the day before in Gaza City.

He added that since the truce came into effect, at least 67 children have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, with dozens more injured, noting that this translates into an average of two child deaths per day since the ceasefire began.

He noted that UNICEF is carrying out large-scale interventions in Gaza, but that the current efforts remain insufficient, adding, “If the required aid and support had reached more quickly, we would have been able to do more.”

Pires also said that hundreds of thousands of children are living in tents and facing harsh winter conditions, explaining that children in Gaza spend nights without heating, insulation, or blankets, leaving them exposed to extreme cold.

8 Oct 2025
“For nearly two years now, chil­dren have paid the heav­iest price in this crisis,” UNICEF spokes­per­son Ricardo Pires told a UN press brief­ing in Geneva. He said ‘an aver­age of one child (is) either killed or maimed every 17 minutes,” call­ing the fig­ure ‘unac­cept­able’ and ‘stag­ger­ing’.

 

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Gaza’s health sector suffers from critical deficit in medical supplies

Sunday 7-December-2025
GAZA

Gaza’s health ministry has reported a catastrophic shortage of medical supplies, noting that 52 percent of essential medicines are out of stock.

In a statement on Sunday, the health ministry added that 71 percent of medical consumables and 70 percent of laboratory items are also completely out of stock in the Gaza Strip.

“As the need for medical interventions for the wounded and sick continues to rise, the crisis is worsening. Primary care, surgical procedures, intensive care, oncology, and hematology are among the services facing severe shortages of vital medicines,” the health ministry said.

“Departments including orthopedics, nephrology, dialysis, ophthalmology, general surgery, and intensive care also face dire challenges due to critical shortages of medical supplies,” the ministry added.

The ministry called for providing the Gaza Strip with its medical needs to ensure that specialized departments can continue operating effectively.”

 

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Changes in psychological distress during conflict escalation in an adult population-based cohort in the Gaza Strip (2020–2025): a longitudinal analysis

This study employs a longitudinal design to follow the mental health of adults in the Gaza Strip across three time points, including baseline data collected before the outbreak of the current war in October 2023, up to January 2025. To our knowledge, it is the first population-based study to track individual-level changes in psychological distress in Gaza over multiple years.

Our findings demonstrate a threefold increase in the prevalence of severe distress by 2025 compared to 2020. This temporal perspective adds critical new insight by building on pre-war data to quantify the mental health impact of war, a study design rarely available in Gaza or other war-affected regions.

While our study cannot establish causality, the recent tripling of severe psychological distress evolved from a background of an exceedingly high mental health burden before October 2023. Our findings underscore the relevance of providing long-term psychosocial and mental health services, including strengthening resilience, to prevent long-term consequences for the current and next generations in Gaza and other conflict-affected populations. Future research should examine the long-term mental health trajectories and resilience, including intergenerational impacts.

 

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Gaza, Palestine – Beirut, Lebanon – The Palestinian Association for Human Rights (Witness) has released a detailed report titled "Women Facing Genocide: Health and Care Challenges in Gaza." Based on extensive research, in-depth analysis, and meticulous fieldwork, the report highlights the devastating impact of the ongoing war on women in Gaza. It underscores the war's classification as a crime of genocide against Palestinians, with women being among the most profoundly affected groups.

Gaza women suffering: Alarming statistics

Casualties: Over 10,000 women have lost their lives due to ongoing attacks, with a dramatic rise in the number of widows and displaced individuals. Women and children make up nearly 70% of the victims.

Pregnant Women and Mothers: More than 49,000 pregnant women are enduring dire conditions, including 17,000 at risk of starvation, while 155,000 others face severe challenges in accessing essential medical care.

Hygiene Crisis: Approximately 690,000 women and girls lack access to sanitary pads, heightening the risks of infectious diseases.

 

Israeli occupation's crimes against women

Direct Targeting: Displaced women are being directly targeted by airstrikes and assaults while seeking refuge.

Arbitrary Detention: Israeli forces have arrested over 142 women, including young girls and infants, under brutal and inhumane conditions.

Women with Disabilities: The number of women with disabilities has increased significantly due to the occupation’s use of internationally prohibited weapons.

 

Women in Gaza: victims of grave violations

The report highlights that women in Gaza are facing severe violations of international law, with breaches of the 1949 Geneva Convention and the 1977 Additional Protocol I, particularly through the lack of protection and the deliberate targeting of hospitals. They are also being denied basic rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), including access to healthcare and reproductive rights. The report further asserts that the systematic policies targeting women may constitute a crime of genocide under Article 6 of the Rome Statute, through the imposition of living conditions that lead to destruction and forced sterilization.

 

Research Efforts to Document Violations

This report is the result of extensive efforts, including daily monitoring of the field situation, analysis of firsthand testimonies, and a review of official data and international human rights reports. Its objective is to reveal the alarming realities of the targeting of Palestinian women—not only through death and destruction but also by obstructing access to healthcare and reproductive services, which constitutes a clear violation of international humanitarian law. The report emphasizes that the targeting of Palestinian women is part of a deliberate, systematic policy aimed at dismantling the Palestinian community.

 

Urgent Recommendations for Protecting Women in Gaza:

Immediate action to protect women in Gaza, beginning with the deployment of international monitors to ensure their safety and the establishment of secure humanitarian corridors.

International investigations by the International Criminal Court into the systematic crimes committed against women.

Providing medical supplies to support reproductive health and emergency services, as well as launching comprehensive rehabilitation programs for women survivors of the war, addressing both their psychological and social needs.

Global awareness campaign to highlight the suffering of women in Gaza, aiming to rally global solidarity and pressure the occupation authorities to halt the ongoing violations.

 

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Tortura y complicidad del personal sanitario en centros de detención israelíes.

No hay lugar para el abuso de la medicina como instrumento de represión y violencia estatal. Estas prácticas representan una abominable afrenta a nuestros valores y responsabilidades profesionales y constituyen graves violaciones del derecho fundamental a la vida, la salud y la dignidad de nuestros colegas palestinos. La tortura no solo destruye la vida de sus víctimas, sino que la participación y complicidad del personal sanitario en estos actos socava la integridad de las profesiones sanitarias y de todas las personas e instituciones que la hacen posible. Ante tales violaciones, tenemos la obligación moral y legal no solo de denunciar, sino también de actuar.

Para saber más: 

Torturas en Israel. Participación médica: torturadores (Israel) y torturados (Palestina). ¿Dónde está el médico? Si hay torturas sistemáticas, el médico está con los torturadores.

 

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Torture and health worker complicity in Israeli detention sites.

There is no place for the misuse of medicine as an adjunct to state repression and violence. Such practices represent an abhorrent derogation of our professional values and responsibilities and are gross violations of our Palestinian colleagues’ basic right to life, health, and dignity. Torture not only destroys the lives of its victims but health worker participation and complicity in such acts corrodes the integrity of the health professions, and all those individuals and institutions that enable it. In the face of such violations, we have a moral and legal obligation, not only to speak out, but to act.

To know more: 

Torture in Israel. Medical participation: torturers (Israel) and tortured (Palestine). Where is the doctor? If there is systematic torture, the doctor is with the torturers.

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Over 3 million life-years lost in Gaza

As of July 31, 2025, we estimated a total of 3 082 363 (95% CI 2 962 715–3 206 048) life-years lost in Gaza.

The division of total life-years lost by the count of deceased people (60 199) gives 51·2 years of life lost per death (49·2–53·3).

When calculated by sex, 1 075 984 (1 023 952–1 130 142) female life-years and 2 006 379 (1 938 762–2 075 906) male life-years have been lost. 

More than 1 million life-years involving children under the age of 15 years (95% CI 1 027 262–1 112 087) have been lost.

 

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Más de 3 millones de años de vida perdidos en Gaza

Al 31 de julio de 2025, estimamos un total de 3 082 363 (IC del 95%: 2 962 715–3 206 048) años de vida perdidos en Gaza. Al dividir el total de años de vida perdidos entre el número de fallecidos (60 199), se obtiene una pérdida de 51,2 años de vida por cada muerte (49,2–53,3).

Por sexo, se han perdido 1 075 984 (1 023 952–1 130 142) años de vida de mujeres y 2 006 379 (1 938 762–2 075 906) años de vida de hombres.

Se han perdido más de 1 millón de años de vida de niños menores de 15 años (IC del 95% 1 027 262–1 112 087).

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West Bank under occupation 26 Oct 2025

We are not seeing enough news about what's happening in the West Bank every single hour. I worked on this summary as an example:

1- The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Qasrah, south of Nablus.
2- The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Deir Abu Mashaal, west of Ramallah.
3- The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Beit Ommar, north of Hebron.
4- The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Sureif, north of Hebron.
5- The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Imatin, east of Qalqilya.
6- The Israeli occupation forces raided homes in the Old City of Nablus.
7- The Israeli occupation forces raided al-Zawyah town in Salfit.
8- The Israeli occupation forces raided people’s homes in al-Jalazon Camp, north of Ramallah, abducting four people — one of them a 13-year-old child.
9- The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of al-Issawiyyah in occupied Jerusalem.
10- A Palestinian was shot by the Israeli occupation forces north of occupied Jerusalem.
11- The Israeli occupation forces raided the city of Al-Bireh.
12- The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus.
13- The Israeli occupation forces assault the families of the village of Kobar, north of Ramallah, abducting some, even after “permitting” them to harvest their olives. 
14- The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Arura, northwest of Ramallah.
15- The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah.
16- The Israeli occupation forces are bulldozing Palestinian farms in the al-Buaira area, east of Hebron. (Ongoing)
17- The Israeli occupation forces raided the German neighborhood in Jenin.
18- The Israeli occupation police raided the town of al-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem. (Ongoing)
19- The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Deir Abu Daeef, east of Jenin.
20- The Israeli occupation forces raided al-Kassarat neighborhood near Qalandia Camp, north of Jerusalem.
21- Israeli settlers opened fire on residents of the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah. 
22- The Israeli occupation forces forced families to shut down their shops while raiding the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus.
23- Four Palestinians were wounded by Israeli gunfire in al-Bireh. One of the casualties is in very critical condition.
24- The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Qifin, north of Tulkarem.
25- The Israeli occupation forces set fire to a house in Nur Shams Camp, east of Tulkarem. 
26- The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Burqin, west of Jenin.
27- The Israeli occupation forces wounded a Palestinian in the town of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah.
28- (Now) The Israeli occupation forces are raiding the town of Qabatiyah, south of Jenin. Two people were critically wounded.
29- (Now) The Israeli occupation forces are raiding the town of Kafr Malik, east of Ramallah.
30- (Now) The Israeli occupation forces are raiding the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah.
31- Israeli settlers have cut down 80 olive trees in the town of Wadi Sa’eer, northeast of Hebron.

UN Human Rights in Occupied Palestinian Territory
Ramallah
27 October 2025
Israeli settler attacks surging: displacement and steps to annex intensify in the occupied
West Bank

Ongoing attacks by illegal Israeli settlers, often supported and joined by Israeli security
forces, continue to instil fear, destroy homes and livelihoods, and force Palestinians out of
their lands in the occupied West Bank. These actions advance Israel’s stated policy to
consolidate annexation in clear violation of international law.

Several attacks over the weekend reflect the persistent Palestinian precarity in the face of
Israeli settler violence.

The olive harvest
On 24 October, a video verified by the UN Human Rights office in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory shows an Israeli settler, joined by Israeli security forces , together severely assaulting
a 58 -year-old olive farmer in Nahhalin , Bethlehem.

The Israeli military said the incident is being investigated. However, settlers and Israeli
security forces have so far enjoyed complete impunity for attacks against Palestinians, even
deadly ones.

Attacks against Bedouin communities
Settler violence is escalating far beyond the olive harvest season, making life impossible for
Palestinians in many communities across the occupied West Bank and leaving them with no
genuine choice but to leave their homes.

In another grave incident on Saturday, 25 October, a mob of masked Israeli settlers first
attacked Palestinians picking olives in Mikhmas, then set fire to six Palestinian homes in the
nearby Khallet As Sidra, a Bedouin Palestinian community northeast of occupied East
Jerusalem.

According to monitoring by the UN Human Rights office, the community, like many others in
the West Bank, has been repeatedly attacked by Israeli settlers over the past two years to
force residents to leave and expand illegal outposts in the area.

Recently, all Palestinian women and children relocated from Khillet As Sidra for safety
reasons, and the men stayed to prevent seizure of their homes by settlers. The Saturday
arson reportedly engulfed several of the homes held by the remaining men.

 

During the attack, settlers also injured five Palestinian men and two Israeli women solidarity activists.
As Israel escalates its campaign of forced transfer to clear large swaths of the occupied West
Bank from Palestinian residents, entire Bedouin communities have been displaced over the
past two years.

 

According to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA) , about 3,200 Palestinians from dozens of Bedouin and herding communities have
been forcibly displaced by settler violence and movement restrictions since 7 October 202 3,
mostly from Area C .

Consolidating annexation
Over the past year , there have been 84 new settler outposts compared to 49 the year before ,
according to data from the Israeli NGO Peace Now. This marks a rapid escalation
compared to the yearly average of eight outposts in the past decade.

In association, settler violence is also surging with 757 attacks recorded in the first half of
2025 alone - 13 per cent higher than the same period last year. Most attacks have been
recorded in Area C , which is increasingly being emptied of Palestinians. However , the UN
Human Rights office has also been increasingly documenting attacks in Area B, indicating
an ever-shrinking space for Palestinians.

The International Court of Justice concluded that the occupation must end, and Israel must
withdraw from all the Occupied Palestinian Territory, both the West Bank and Gaza. This
includes immediately dismantling all settlements and evacuating all settlers.
ENDS
For more information and media requests, please contact:
Mayy El Sheikh – mayy.elsheikh@un.org

 

Humanitarian Situation Update #335 | West Bank
31 Oct 2025

Key Highlights

    1/ Three Palestinian men were killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli forces and by an Israeli airstrike in Jenin. The UN Human Rights Office emphasizes that the use of airstrikes in the occupied West Bank is unlawful.

  2/  Over the past week, 60 Israeli settler attacks were recorded across the West Bank, more than half in relation to the olive harvest, resulting in the injury of 17 Palestinians and extensive property damage.

  3/  The 2025 olive harvest season has so far witnessed the highest level of damage and number of affected communities due to settler attacks since 2020, with 126 attacks recorded in 70 towns and villages and over 4,000 olive trees and saplings vandalized.
   

  4/ Israeli settlers from newly established settlement outposts in the West Bank have increasingly imposed restrictions on Palestinians’ access to their olive groves, including in areas that were previously accessible without ‘prior coordination’ with Israeli authorities.

 

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Reported impact snapshot | Gaza Strip (15 October 2025)

 

PROTECTION

• >1 million children in need of mental health and psycho-social support (source: UNICEF).

• 62% of people don't have access to legal documents proving property ownership (source: IRDNA, issued in February 2025).

• At least 575* aid workers killed since October 2023 (567 nationals, 8 foreigners; incl. at least 187 women and 388 men), some in the line of duty. The total includes:
• 384 UN staff - UNRWA: 378; WHO: 1; UNDP: 2; UNOPS: 2; UNDSS: 1 (source: OCHA).
• 54 PRCS staff and volunteers, including 29 while on duty.
• 4 ICRC staff.
• At least 133 other aid workers.

• >1,700 health workers killed, including some also counted under aid workers above (source: MoH, as of 7 October 2025).

• 140 Civil Defence staff killed while on duty (source: PCD).

• 252 journalists and media workers killed (source: PJS).

 

HEALTH*

• 39% (14 out of 36) of hospitals are functional, all partially, including: 8 in Gaza city, 3 in Deir
al Balah, 3 in Khan Younis and none in North Gaza and Rafah.

• 63% (10 out of 16) of field hospitals functional, all partially, including: 1 in Gaza, 4 in Deir
al Balah, 4 in Khan Younis, 1 in Rafah and none in North Gaza.

• 35% (64 out of 181) of primary health care centres are functional, all partially.

• 32 Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) deployed by 20 international and two national organizations, as of 5 October.

• Over 15,600 critical patients, including 3,800 children, require medical evacuation abroad.
Between 1 January and 29 September 2025, 2,405 patients and 4,017 companions have been evacuated outside Gaza. *Source: Health Cluster as of 12 October 2025, unless otherwise noted.

 

NUTRITION*

• An estimated 132,000 cases of children aged 6 to 59 months and 55,500 pregnant and
breastfeeding women are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition through June
2026, including 41,000 severe cases of children.**

• 25,000 infants are at risk of acute malnutrition and require urgent nutrition support
between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026.**

• >90% of children under two years consume fewer than two food groups per day, with
high-protein foods and micronutrient-rich items extremely scarce (as of September
2025).

• 290,000** children between six months and five years and 150,000 pregnant and
breastfeeding women require feeding and micronutrient supplements (monthly
caseload, January-December 2025)

 

WATER AND SANITATION

• 89% of the WASH sector assets have been either destroyed or damaged (source: IRDNA, issued in February 2025).

• 49%** of people in Gaza access less than the minimum emergency standard of 6 litres of drinking water per day, for drinking and cooking.

• 28%** access less than the minimum emergency standard of 9 litres of domestic water per day, for hygiene and cleaning.

• 64%** of households experience infestations of lice and mites, while 57% are affected by skin conditions such as rashes and scabies due to poor hygiene and overcrowding.

*Source: WASH Cluster unless otherwise noted.
**Source: Joint WASH assessment, 17 August - 5 September 2025

 

20 Oct 2025. Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, has issued an urgent plea on behalf of amputees and cancer patients in Gaza, calling on the international community and global institutions to act immediately to save lives.  In press statements, Dr. Abu Salmiya confirmed that nearly 2,000 amputees and over 5,000 cancer patients are in urgent need of medical treatment abroad.

 

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The Burden of Imprecision: on the limitation of statistics 

The death toll in Gaza remains unknown, and statistics have become a contested tool to understand the scale of the genocide. But even if we had an accurate number of deaths, we still wouldn’t understand the depth of its meaning.

The Zionist entity has killed between 65,000 and 680,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7. The range is staggering, although the larger number is not necessarily the ceiling; it is simply the one we know of.

The first number comes from the Gaza Ministry of Health, which collates data on every single martyr, including their full name, ID number, age, place of residence, birthday, and gender. In a Drop Site interview with Dr. Zaher al-Wahaidi, the Director of the Information Center, he describes how the identity of each martyr is corroborated and counted by every hospital that receives the injured. Not included in the number are those trapped underneath the rubble of collapsed buildings or those who die “indirect deaths.” These include children who are starved to death, cancer patients who can’t access treatment, or those who are killed by disease because of a collapsed healthcare system. The only ones they count in the official toll are those killed by the impact of a missile. 

680,000 is the new projected death toll, based on the rate, longevity, and intensity of Zionist brutality. Many have now assumed that number in their vocabulary, rightfully arguing that 65,000 is such a severe undercount that reciting it is itself a form of genocide denial.

The only confirmed fact is that there is no confirmed death toll in Gaza.

Photo:  Palestinians returning to the Al-Nafaq area in Gaza City are met with scenes of widespread destruction and devastation, on October 14, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images) 

 

 

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UNRWA Situation Report #192 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem

Posted 15 Oct 2025 
Highlights

The Gaza Strip

-On 10 October, a ceasefire entered into force across the Gaza strip.Following the ceasefire, large-scale population movements were recorded by the Site Management Cluster across several areas, including from southern Gaza towards the north (~309,699 displacement movements) and from west to east within Khan Younis governorate (~22,700 displacement movements) from 10 to 12 October.

-Welcoming the ceasefire announcement, UNRWA Commissioner-General shared his hope that “it will bring respite to people who survived the worst bombardment, displacement, loss and grief for two long years.” He further called on all member states to “support UNRWA to do its work to assist people in need in the coming critical period,” noting that “UNRWA has food, medicines and other basic supplies ready to go to Gaza.”

-UNRWA has enough food in warehouses in Jordan and Egypt to supply the entire population for three months, including food parcels for 1.1 million people and flour for 2.1 million individuals. In addition, UNRWA has shelter supplies outside of Gaza sufficient to reach up to 1.3 million people.

-The Shelter Cluster reported that most people in Gaza reside in inadequate shelters that fail to meet basic emergency standards, leaving them exposed to harsh winter conditions.

-The UN Satellite Centre published a preliminary analysis showing that, as of 23 September, the extent of damage in Gaza City encompassed approximately 83 per cent of all structures, with an estimated 81,159 housing units damaged.

-OCHA reported that an average of four aid workers have been killed each week in the Gaza Strip so far in 2025, and at least 565 aid workers have been killed since 7 October 2023. Among them, UNRWA recorded over 370 workers killed since the war began (306 UNRWA personnel, in addition to 72 people who were supporting UNRWA activities[2]), as of 9 October 2025.

 

The occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem

 

-With the 2025 olive harvest season which began in the West Bank on 9 October, Israeli settler violence targeting Palestinian communities and agriculture continued unabated, with attacks and harassment reported across the West Bank.

-Movement restrictions were tightened across the West Bank by Israeli forces, including the deployment of mobile checkpoints, the closure of road gates, and the erection of cement blocks and other obstacles.

 

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2 Oct 2025

Humanitarian Situation Update #327 | Gaza Strip

 

Key Highlights

 

• People in Gaza city are facing deteriorating access to means of survival amid intensified bombardment, collapsing lifelines, and a growing number of aid organizations forced to suspend operations.
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• Cooked meal provision in northern Gaza has dropped by 70 per cent, with only eight kitchens currently operational, the Food Security Sector reports.
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• One million people are accessing less than the emergency minimum of six litres of drinking water per day, according to a recent assessment by water, sanitation and hygiene partners.
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• The UN and its partners continue to face physical and bureaucratic impediments, preventing them from providing lifesaving assistance at scale in the Gaza Strip.
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• Attacks on or near hospitals and other health facilities continue to be reported.
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• Environmental damage in the Gaza Strip has dramatically worsened since June 2024, according to the UN Environment Programme.
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Challenges Facing the Health-Care System

• On 28 October, Al-Helou maternity hospital in Gaza city sustained damage due to nearby strikes, causing panic and fear among patients and medical staff, but no injuries were reported. Citing MoH staff, MSF reported that at the time of the incident, there were 12 newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit, five patients in internal medicine department, and two obstetric patients in the hospital, among others. On 29 September, OHCHR stated that “Israel’s military attacks on and around hospitals in Gaza city are leaving sick and injured civilians with nowhere to turn to for life-saving care, as escalating attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure are leading to countless casualties,” noting that it recorded at least 17 attacks on or near health facilities across Gaza city between 16 and 28 September. On 29 September, at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, a nurse was critically injured by a gunshot to the head while performing his duties inside the hospital.
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• Neonatal care across the Gaza Strip is critically strained amid severe supply shortages and escalating insecurity, with facilities operating far beyond their intended capacity. The Head of the Neonatal Unit at Nasser, Dr. Hatem Duhair, reported that the neonatal unit is functioning under catastrophic conditions; the facility was designed to accommodate 17 infants, but is caring for 26, with numbers expected to increase. In some cases, two newborns are sharing a single incubator, and additional incubators have been placed between existing units to manage the high caseload. Dr. Duhair added that only five ventilators are available for all 26 infants, forcing medical teams to prioritize which infants receive life-saving support, including those in need of urgent surgery. Dr. Duhair noted that the increase in births is directly linked to the influx of displaced families from northern Gaza, placing further strain on already overstretched resources. The neonatal unit is currently operating at 150 to 170 per cent of its designed capacity, while the overflow nursery designed for nine infants is now hosting 30, he added.
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• Medicine and medical consumables in the Gaza Strip are at crisis levels. On 25 September, MoH in Gaza reported that 54 per cent of essential drugs and 66 per cent of medical consumables were at zero-stock levels. In emergency departments, the situation is particularly alarming, with 45 per cent of items unavailable, including surgical supplies, critically affecting life-saving procedures. The MoH is also facing severe shortages of blood units, blood bags and transfusion sets, with supplies expected to run out imminently.
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• A surge in cases of infectious diseases is a growing concern. According to the Health Cluster, over 1,300 suspected cases of meningitis (primarily viral) have been reported between May and September 2025, with no deaths to date. In parallel, since June 2025, 122 cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) have been recorded, along with 16 associated deaths; these included 19 GBS cases and three deaths reported in September, the Health Cluster reported. The response to GBS is severely constrained by the limited availability of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and plasma filters, which are essential for treatment. The Health Cluster noted that the last shipment of Plasma filters entered Gaza in mid-September while the IVIG is planned to enter in early October 2025.
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Actualización de la situación humanitaria n.° 327 | Franja de Gaza

 

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Gaza’s Real Death Toll: 680,000 Killed – 70% Are Children

Sept 13, 2025

In their forensic article Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead, Dr Richard Hil and Dr Gideon Polya dismantle the official narrative on Gaza’s death toll — and the numbers they present are shattering.

The authors show that when deaths from starvation, disease, and deprivation are included, the true toll by April 2025 was closer to 680,000 Palestinians killed — 12 to 14 times higher than what most outlets report.

The most devastating detail: around 380,000 of these deaths were infants under five, and 479,000 were children in total — meaning nearly 70% of Gaza’s dead are children.

Save the Children estimates that 20,000 more children remain buried under Gaza’s 51 million tons of rubble, their bodies unrecovered.

The authors note that the Palestinian-to-Israeli death ratio is now 597 to 1 — sixty times higher than Hitler’s infamous 10-to-1 massacre reprisals in Nazi-occupied Rome. This is not a “war” but an industrial-scale slaughter.

And the erasure is deliberate. Almost 250 Palestinian journalists have been killed. International press are banned from Gaza.

Al Jazeera has been banned from Israel, and independent media offices like Haaretz have been attacked — a systematic attempt to silence documentation of the genocide.

Words like “genocide,” “occupation,” and “ethnic cleansing” are banned from use in most Western state broadcasters.

The article also highlights Donald Trump’s own admission, in May 2025, citing intelligence figures that put Gaza’s remaining population at 1.7 million - meaning as many as 700,000 Gazans have been killed or disappeared.

Perhaps most chillingly, Hil and Polya report that a majority of Israelis support the mass expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza.

A May 2025 poll found that a majority of Israelis support the forced removal of all Palestinians and 65% explicitly invoked the biblical command to “erase Amalek.”

Hil and Polya’s analysis makes clear what the euphemisms and media silences conceal: Gaza is living through one of the deadliest episodes of mass killing since World War II — and the vast majority of its victims are children.

 

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La relatora de la ONU, Francesca Albanese, estima en 680.000 las muertes en Gaza, diez veces más de lo calculado por Hamás. 19 sep 2025

La relatora de la ONU sobre los territorios palestinos ocupados, Francesca Albanese, ha asegurado este lunes que el número de muertos en la Franja de Gaza puede llegar a ser diez veces más de lo calculado por Hamás, que cifra en 65.000 los palestinos fallecidos desde el 7 de octubre de 2023.

"Deberíamos empezar a pensar en 680.000 porque este es el número que algunos académicos y científicos afirman que es la verdadera cifra de muertos en Gaza", ha sostenido la italiana durante una rueda de prensa celebrada en Ginebra.

Según Albanese, los investigadores han llegado a esta cifra en función de los cálculos sobre el nivel de destrucción en el enclave palestino y del número de habitantes que parecen quedar allí.

Los datos proporcionados por Albanese son fruto de una investigación llevada a cabo por Richard Hil, profesor de la Universidad Griffith (Queensland, Australia), y por el escritor Gideon Polya. La cifra, que contempla no solo las muertes por los ataques israelíes sino también por hambre y otras carencias, surge a raíz de una fórmula publicada en 2024 en la revista The Lancet, cuyos autores estiman que las muertes indirectas en los conflictos armados "son entre tres y quince veces superiores a las muertes directas".

De acuerdo con los investigadores, 544.000 personas podrían haber muerto indirectamente en Gaza, mientras que el resto lo habría hecho a manos de las Fuerzas Armadas israelíes.  La relatora de la ONU ha añadido que la cifra estimada es "difícil" de comprobar, ya que a los investigadores se les prohíbe acceder a la Franja.

Sin embargo, ha destacado que de ser verdadera, serían unos 380.000 los menores de cinco años que han fallecido hasta ahora en el enclave. "Tomará años verificar el número verdadero de víctimas y recuperar los restos humanos de esta catástrofe, como ocurrió en Bosnia", ha añadido Albanese, una de las primeras personas en calificar de "genocidio" lo que está ocurriendo en la Franja.

El presidente del Consejo de Administración de la Corporación RTVE, José Pablo López Sánchez, comparece ante la Comisión Mixta de Control Parlamentario RTVE y sus Sociedades del Congreso de los Diputados este jueves. El presidente de RTVE propondrá mañana al Consejo de Administración retirar a España de Eurovisión si Israel participa  Además, la representante de la ONU ha señalado que 1.581 trabajadores humanitarios, 252 periodistas y 346 trabajadores de Naciones Unidos han sido asesinados en el enclave. Asimismo, ha denunciado que 10.000 palestinos han sido detenidos arbitrariamente "por una ocupación ilegal, que ha estado privando de comida, torturando e incluso violando" a la población". Además, ha afirmado que 75 palestinos detenidos habrían muerto bajo custodia de Israel.  

A esta situación se suma el hecho, según la relatora, de que los palestinos "continúan siendo sacados de sus casas en medio de la noche" en los territorios ocupados. "Hogares, refugios, hospitales, colegios y centros comerciales siguen siendo destruidos. Más del 85% de Gaza está en ruinas", ha sostenido Albanese, para quien ha resultado un "doloroso honor" comparecer ante la prensa tras 710 días de "horror absoluto".  

Con respecto a la operación israelí para tomar la Ciudad de Gaza, la relatora ha destacado que la operación no solo "devastará" a los palestinos sino que también pondrá en riesgo a los rehenes que siguen secuestrados en la Franja. Además, ha acusado a Israel de utilizar "armas que nunca antes hemos visto, así como armamento recién ensamblado que destruye barrios enteros y lo que queda de los edificios donde la gente ha buscado refugio". "Se trata del último pedazo de tierra donde la guerra debe ser imposible antes de avanzar en su limpieza étnica y de dirigirse, probablemente, a Cisjordania", ha sentenciado. Almodóvar, este lunes, en Sol. Artistas españoles como Almodóvar o García Montero ponen su voz para nombrar a los 18.500 niños muertos en Gaza  Albanese también ha señalado que Cisjordania vive bajo una "intensa presión".

Según la relatora, más de 1.000 palestinos han sido asesinados en el territorio desde el 7 de octubre, de los cuales 212 son niños. Asimismo, la representante de la ONU ha alertado de que las incursiones israelíes en territorio palestino han aumentado en un 22%, en comparación con los años anteriores.

El número de "asesinatos selectivos" también ha subido y se habría convertido en el "más grave" desde la Segunda Intifada. Además, ha situado en 40.000 el número de palestinos obligados a desplazarse.

Albanese, sancionada por EEUU  

La relatora de la ONU ha sido sancionada por Estados Unidos tras haber denunciado el "genocidio" en Gaza y no podrá viajar a Nueva York para presentar su informe a la Asamblea General de la ONU, que se reunirá aproximante, a menos que se le permita hacerlo a última hora.

Según informó a principios de julio el secretario de Estado de EEUU, Marco Rubio, Albanese fue sancionada por colaborar con la Corte Penal Internacional para procesar a ciudadanos estadounidenses e israelíes relacionados con la ofensiva.  

"Albanese ha colaborado directamente con la Corte Penal Internacional en iniciativas para investigar, arrestar, detener o enjuiciar a ciudadanos de Estados Unidos o Israel, sin el consentimiento de ambos países", afirmó Rubio en un comunicado. "Ni Estados Unidos ni Israel son parte del Estatuto de Roma, lo que convierte esta acción en una grave violación de la soberanía de ambos países", sentenció.

https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/reported-impact-snapshot-gaza-strip-10-september-2025-1500

OCHA Reported impact snapshot | Gaza Strip, 10 September 2025

26 August 2025

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The Israeli forces are increasing their carnage in Gaza City, while famine has been declared in the city by the integrated food security phase classification. Medicines Sans Frontieres. 22 August 2025

 

Amande Bazerolle, the head of our emergency response in Gaza, shares her reaction to the current situation in Gaza City: “We are horrified to see the Israeli forces increasing their carnage across Gaza City, as they sweep through neighbourhoods, leaving destruction in their wake. At the same time, continued strikes are forcing people, including MSF staff, to flee their homes once again, and we are seeing displacement across Gaza City.   

 

“At our clinics in the area, we have seen high patient numbers this week as people move away from the recent bombardments in neighbourhoods, such as Az-Zaytoun. 

 

“All this is happening while famine in Gaza City has been declared by the integrated food security phase classification (IPC). You couldn't imagine something more cynical: people being starved as the Israeli forces invade and destroy any life that remains.

 

“This will lead to a complete and utter humanitarian disaster. As the Israeli forces accelerate their campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing by expanding their military ground invasion into Gaza City, Palestinians trapped there face starvation, disease, and death.  

 

“We have seen this repeatedly before: the mass destruction of civilian infrastructure, the forced displacement of millions into ever-shrinking, uninhabitable areas, and the systematic denial of food, water and aid". 

 

“We call on the Israeli forces to stop their military invasion and reiterate our call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire.”

 

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Las fuerzas israelíes están incrementando su carnicería en la ciudad de Gaza, mientras que la clasificación integrada de la fase de seguridad alimentaria ha declarado la hambruna en la ciudad. Médicos Sin Fronteras MSF. 22 de agosto de 2025

 

Amande Bazerolle, jefa de nuestra respuesta de emergencia en Gaza, comparte su reacción ante la situación actual en la ciudad de Gaza: "Nos horroriza ver cómo las fuerzas israelíes intensifican su masacre en la ciudad de Gaza, arrasando barrios y dejando tras de sí la destrucción".

 

Al mismo tiempo, los continuos ataques obligan a la población, incluido el personal de MSF, a huir de sus hogares una vez más, y estamos presenciando desplazamientos en toda la ciudad de Gaza. 

 

“En nuestras clínicas de la zona, hemos visto un alto número de pacientes esta semana a medida que la población se aleja de los recientes bombardeos en barrios como Az-Zaytoun. Todo esto ocurre mientras la hambruna en la ciudad de Gaza ha sido declarada por la Clasificación Integrada de Fases de Seguridad Alimentaria (CIF)". 

 

Imposible imaginar algo más cínico: gente muriendo de hambre mientras las fuerzas israelíes invaden y destruyen cualquier vida que quede. Esto conducirá a un desastre humanitario total y absoluto.

 

A medida que las fuerzas israelíes aceleran su campaña de genocidio y limpieza étnica al expandir su invasión militar terrestre a la ciudad de Gaza, los palestinos atrapados allí se enfrentan al hambre, la enfermedad y la muerte.

 

“Hemos visto esto repetidamente antes: la destrucción masiva de infraestructura civil, el desplazamiento forzado de millones de personas a áreas cada vez más reducidas e inhabitables y la negación sistemática de alimentos, agua y ayuda". 

 

“Hacemos un llamamiento a las fuerzas israelíes para que detengan su invasión militar y reiteramos nuestro llamamiento a un alto el fuego inmediato y sostenido”.

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21 de agosto de 2025

https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20250822/onu-declara-oficialmente-situacion-hambruna-franja-gaza-pero-israel-niega/16704009.shtml

La organización cree que podría haberse evitado si no fuera por la "obstrucción sistemática" de Israel    

Y afirma que utilizar el hambre como método en un conflicto armado "es un crimen de guerra".

Lo peor se está viviendo en el norte de Gaza y particularmente en Ciudad de Gaza, donde hay un millón de personas y contra la cual Israel prepara una nueva ofensiva militar, pero los datos revelados este viernes indican que "entre mediados de agosto y finales de septiembre de 2025 se prevé que las condiciones empeoren aún más, con una expansión de la hambruna" hacia el centro y el sur del enclave.  

En concreto, la Comisión de Revisión de la Hambruna ha señalado en un informe que cumplen los parámetros establecidos y que el territorio se encuentran en la fase 5 de la clasificación, que refleja la falta de acceso extrema a alimentos y agua, el desplazamiento a gran escala y una alta tasa de mortalidad. El texto alerta de que se trata de una hambruna "creada por el hombre" y que, como tal, "puede ser revertida".

 

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21 August 2025

Famine Declared in Gaza Amid Israeli Blockade.

Famine has been declared for the first time in Gaza City and its surrounding areas, according to the Integrated Food Phase Classification (IPC), the UN-backed global hunger monitor, as Israel continues to block aid from entering the war-torn enclave.  

The UN-backed scale issued a report on Friday morning in which it said that famine was taking place in Gaza City and surrounding areas, in an area home to around 500,000 displaced Palestinians.  It has raised its classification for Gaza Governorate to Phase 5, the highest level, which is characterised by starvation, destitution and death.  

The same classification is projected to be extended to Deir al-Balah in central Gaza and Khan Younis in the south by the end of September.  

While the body had previously warned that famine was imminent across Gaza, it had stopped short of making a formal declaration.  

Another 1.07 million people – or 54 percent of Gaza’s population – are classified as being under Phase 4, or “emergency” conditions, while 396,000 people (20 percent) are under Phase 3, or “crisis” conditions.  

At least 132,000 children under five in Gaza are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition through next June, according to the latest IPC snapshot on the food security crisis in the territory.  

That’s more than double the estimates from the IPC, the international system for monitoring world hunger and food security, in May.  This includes more than 41,000 severe cases of children at heightened risk of death.  The report said “large segments” of Gaza’s population were consuming diets “that fall extremely short in both nutritional quantity and quality”.  

“Nutrition supplies for treating and preventing acute malnutrition are close to depletion due to entry restrictions, which may force health facilities to halt treatment,” it said.  

Meanwhile, nearly 55,500 malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women will require urgent nutrition responses, the body said.  

It declares famine if three criteria are met: at least 20 percent of households face an extreme lack of food, at least 30 percent of children are suffering acute malnutrition, and two out of every 10,000 are dying each day due to “outright starvation”.

El genocidio de Israel en Gaza llega a un punto crítico con la hambruna

1 agosto 2025

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La situación ha empeorado drásticamente, ya que el 81% de los hogares declaran consumir pocos alimentos, frente al 33% en abril, y el deterioro más grave se observa en el norte de Gaza. Una tendencia similar puede observarse en la escala de hambre en los hogares, con un 24% experimentando hambre muy severa en julio, en comparación con el 4% en abril.

La mayoría de los hogares (86%) declararon no tener regularmente alimentos de ningún tipo y casi todos (96%) aseguraron haberse acostado con hambre varias veces en el último mes. Casi nueve de cada diez recurrieron a mecanismos de supervivencia extremadamente severos para alimentarse, como correr importantes riesgos de seguridad para obtener alimentos o rebuscar entre la basura.

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The National can reveal new details of the systematic killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army and private contractors while attempting to collect aid in Gaza.

Striking testimony from Gazans who have escaped the crossfire of the Israeli army during distribution at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid sites suggests a strategy that legitimises force being used by the military, luring desperate civilians into waves of live fire that can be justified by occupying forces.

Survivors told The National that the pattern is that after waiting all night, crowds are shot at early in the morning before the arrival of tanks, which causes panic among aid-seekers. Fleeing the tanks, they are then shot at by Israeli soldiers for moving in "unauthorised directions".
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More than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed while waiting to receive aid - at least 850 of them in the vicinity of aid distribution sites, mostly by Israel's army - since the inception of the US-Israeli backed GHF in May, the UN said last week.

The question is: why? The National spoke to witnesses, experts, victims and others to uncover the circumstances under which starving Gazans are dying by bullets.

The investigation revealed humiliating tactics used by the Israeli army to control crowds waiting for aid, often under inhumane conditions at sites that can only be described as death traps.

 

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"The National" revela nuevos detalles sobre el asesinato sistemático de palestinos por parte del ejército israelí y contratistas privados mientras intentaban recoger ayuda en Gaza.

 

El impactante testimonio de gazatíes que escaparon del fuego cruzado del ejército israelí durante la distribución de ayuda en los puntos de encuentro de la Fundación Humanitaria de Gaza sugiere una estrategia que legitima el uso de la fuerza por parte del ejército, atrayendo a civiles desesperados hacia oleadas de fuego real que las fuerzas de ocupación pueden justificar.

 

 Los sobrevivientes declararon a The National que la práctica habitual es que, tras esperar toda la noche, la multitud recibe disparos a primera hora de la mañana, antes de la llegada de los tanques, lo que provoca pánico entre los solicitantes de ayuda. Al huir de los tanques, los soldados israelíes les disparan por moverse en "direcciones no autorizadas".

 

Más de 1300 palestinos han muerto mientras esperaban recibir ayuda —al menos 850 de ellos en las inmediaciones de los centros de distribución, principalmente a manos del ejército israelí— desde la creación de la Fundación de Ayuda Humanitaria Global (FGH), respaldada por Estados Unidos e Israel, en mayo, según declaró la ONU la semana pasada.

 

La pregunta es: ¿por qué? The National habló con testigos, expertos, víctimas y otros para esclarecer las circunstancias en las que los gazatíes, que sufren hambre, mueren a causa de las balas. La investigación reveló tácticas humillantes empleadas por el ejército israelí para controlar a las multitudes que esperan ayuda, a menudo en condiciones inhumanas en lugares que solo pueden describirse como trampas mortales.

ENGLISH 25 July 2025

“Why Is the World Letting It Happen?”: U.K. Surgeon, Back from Gaza. Dr Nick Maynard

And even more disturbing from that, there is a very clear pattern that the emergency doctors in the ER have recognized, and indeed the surgeons, like me, have recognized, that there is a cluster of injuries to particular body parts on particular days. So, for example, one day there’ll be — most of them will be coming in with gunshot wounds to the head and neck. Another day there’ll be gunshot wounds to the chest, another day to the abdomen and even to the — 12 days ago, we had four young teenage boys, all of whom were admitted with gunshot wounds to the testicles. And the clustering, the pattern we’re seeing is very striking. And it would appear to us that they’re — it’s almost like target practice — playing some sort of game, that we’re going to go for the head today, the abdomen tomorrow, the testicles the day after that. Truly, truly shocking.

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¿Cómo es posible? Declaraciones de un cirujano británico tras un mes en Gaza. Dr Nick Maynard

“Están siendo disparados por soldados israelís y por drones xuadricopteros que están por toda la zona en este momento.

Y aún más inquietante. Un patrón muy claro que los médicos de emergencias han reconocido y de hecho cirujanos como yo han reconocido y es que hay un grupo de lesiones en partes particulares del cuerpo en días específicos. Así por ejemplo, un día la mayoría de los heridos vendrán con heridas de bala en la cabeza y el cuello. Otro día habrá heridas de bala en el pecho, otro día en el abdomen e incluso hace 12 días tuvimos  cuatro jóvenes adolescentes que fueron admitidos con heridas de bala en los testículos. La agrupación el patrón que estamos viendo es muy sorprendente. Nos parece que están con una práctica de tiro, jugando algún tipo de juego vamos a ir por la cabeza hoy, el abdomen mañana, los testículos el día siguiente. Realmente realmente impactante”