Personal sanitario y salud en Palestina

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

 

ENGLISH (original work, published July 11, 2025)

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.

 

ESPAÑOL

"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”

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FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE. REPORT 14 JULY. AID AND STARVATION AS WEAPONS

The Israeli military’s weaponisation of aid and starvation to displace and destroy Palestinian society will not stop as long as Israel controls aid distribution. Our new analysis shows how Israel has imposed a deadly aid system through GHF ration stations, while dismantling a proven civilian-led model, in order to concentrate Palestinians in Rafah and push Gazan society toward collapse.

The genocide can continue even under a ceasefire.

See the full report here.

21 July 2025 Al Jazeera

What is the ‘kill zone’ people in Gaza need to cross to receive aid?

Hundreds of starving, aid-seeking Palestinians in Gaza have lost their lives to Israeli aggression or starvation.
Palestinians transport victims to a Red Cross clinic in Rafah
By Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 21 Jul 202521 Jul 2025
People of Gaza are starving, and one of the only ways they can get any food is to risk death by going to an aid distribution point run by the notorious Israel- and United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency has analysed satellite imagery of the GHF aid distribution centre in the Shakoush area of Rafah, taken on July 13.
We trace the journey of desperately hungry people waiting for hours, sometimes days, to walk a gauntlet of Israeli tanks, armoured vehicles, and drones where they risk being shot by Israeli soldiers.

Here is what they have to go through:
How do people get into the centre?

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INFORME 14 JULIO 2025. AYUDA Y HAMBRE COMO ARMAS. FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE

 Ministerio de Salud Palestina - Gaza

Comunicado de Prensa

 Los prisioneros del personal médico en los centros de detención de la ocupación viven en condiciones trágicas y difíciles.

 La ocupación israelí impone severas restricciones a los prisioneros en general, y especialmente a aquellos del personal médico.

 La abogada del prisionero Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya describe el grave estado de salud del doctor y la privación deliberada de tratamiento médico.

 Según su última visita, la abogada del Dr. Abu Safiya describe la brutalidad a la que está siendo sometido durante los interrogatorios, incluyendo golpes continuos.

 El Dr. Abu Safiya, detenido desde el 27 de diciembre del año pasado, ha perdido 40 kg de peso y sufre de hipertensión y debilitamiento del músculo cardíaco.

 360 miembros del personal sanitario han sido arrestados desde el inicio de la guerra de exterminio en la Franja de Gaza.

 Entre los detenidos hay médicos con experiencia y especialidades médicas vitales, de las que han sido privados los pacientes y heridos.

 El Ministerio de Salud exige a las partes competentes que intervengan de manera urgente para criminalizar las prácticas de la ocupación contra el personal médico prisionero y presionar para su liberación.

Ministerio de Salud
14 de julio de 2025

 

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*Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza*

*Press Release*14 July 2025

 

Prisoned medical personnel in Israeli detention centers are experiencing tragic and difficult conditions.

 

The Israeli occupation imposes severe restrictions on prisoners in general and on medical personnel in particular.

 

The lawyer for prisoner Dr. Hussam Abu Safia describes Dr. Abu Safia's critical health condition and the deliberate denial of treatment.

 

Dr. Abu Safia's lawyer, based on his last visit, describes the brutality Dr. Abu Safia is subjected to during interrogation and the constant beatings he is subjected to. Dr. Abu Safia, who has been detained since December 27 of last year, has lost 40 kg and suffers from high blood pressure and a weak heart muscle.

 

360 medical personnel have been arrested since the beginning of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

 

Among the detained prisoners are doctors with medical expertise and important specialties, which patients and the wounded are denied.

 

The Ministry of Health calls on the relevant authorities to urgently intervene to criminalize the occupation's practices against detained medical personnel and pressure them to release.

 

 *Ministry of Health* July 14, 2025

 

*وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية-غزة *

*تــصريح صحـــفي*

الأسرى من الطواقم الطبية في معتقلات الاحتلال يعيشون ظروف مأساوية وصعبة .

الاحتلال الإسرائيلي يفرض قيود مشدده على الأسرى بشكل عام وعلى الأسرى من الطواقم الطبية بشكل خاص .

محامية الأسير الدكتور حسام أبو صفية تصف الحالة الصحية الصعبة للدكتور أبو صفية والحرمان المتعمد من العلاج.

محامية د.أبو صفية وفق آخر زيارة له تصف وحشية مايتعرض له د. أبو صفية خلال التحقيق وتعرضه للضرب بشكل متواصل .

الدكتور أبو صفية والمعتقل منذ 27 ديسمبر العام الماضي فقد 40 كغم من وزنه ويعاني من ارتفاع ضغط الدم وضعف عضلة القلب .

  360 من الطواقم الصحية تعرضوا للاعتقال منذ بداية حرب الابادة الجماعية على قطاع غزة .

من بين الأسرى المعتقلين أطباء من ذوي الخبرة الطبية والتخصصات المهمة والتي حُرم المرضى والجرحى منها .

وزارة الصحة تطالب الجهات المعنية بالتدخل العاجل لتجريم ممارسات الاحتلال بحق الأسرى من الطواقم الطبية والضغط للافراج عنهم .

*وزارة الصحة*
14 يوليو 2025

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*Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza*

*Press Release*14 July 2025

Prisoned medical personnel in Israeli detention centers are experiencing tragic and difficult conditions.

The Israeli occupation imposes severe restrictions on prisoners in general and on medical personnel in particular.

The lawyer for prisoner Dr. Hussam Abu Safia describes Dr. Abu Safia's critical health condition and the deliberate denial of treatment.

Dr. Abu Safia's lawyer, based on his last visit, describes the brutality Dr. Abu Safia is subjected to during interrogation and the constant beatings he is subjected to. Dr. Abu Safia, who has been detained since December 27 of last year, has lost 40 kg and suffers from high blood pressure and a weak heart muscle.

360 medical personnel have been arrested since the beginning of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Among the detained prisoners are doctors with medical expertise and important specialties, which patients and the wounded are denied.

The Ministry of Health calls on the relevant authorities to urgently intervene to criminalize the occupation's practices against detained medical personnel and pressure them to release.

 *Ministry of Health* *July 14, 2025*

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The heightened risks older persons face as a result of ongoing Israel hostilities in Gaza. Protection brief. June 2025. UNRWA (The situation of older persons in Gaza)

Older people have had essential roles in Gaza— leading communities, caring for relatives, and helping sustain collective memory.

Limited mobility, chronic health conditions, and the collapse of health and support systems on which they previously depended all contribute to their vulnerability during the genocide, while frequent forced displacement, chronic shortages of food and clean water, and overcrowded and unhygienic living conditions further exacerbate the risks they face. 

The sheer scale of the genocide in Gaza has often masked their specific vulnerabilities and needs. Only a permanent ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access can improve protection for civilians in Gaza, including older persons.

"We have lived through humiliation in all its forms"...a displaced elderly man in Deir Al-Balah

 

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Los mayores riesgos que enfrentan las personas mayores como resultado de las hostilidades de Israel en curso en Gaza.

Las personas mayores han desempeñado papeles esenciales en Gaza: liderar comunidades, cuidar de sus familiares y contribuir a la preservación de la memoria colectiva.

La movilidad limitada, las enfermedades crónicas y el colapso de los sistemas de salud y apoyo de los que anteriormente dependían contribuyen a su vulnerabilidad durante el genocidio, mientras que los frecuentes desplazamientos forzados, la escasez crónica de alimentos y agua potable, y las condiciones de vida de hacinamiento e insalubridad agravan aún más los riesgos que enfrentan.

La magnitud de la crisis en Gaza a menudo ha enmascarado sus vulnerabilidades y necesidades específicas. Solo un alto el fuego permanente y un acceso humanitario sin trabas pueden mejorar la protección de la población civil en Gaza, incluidas las personas mayores.

"Hemos vivido todas las formas de humillación"...un anciano desplazado en Deir Al-Balah.

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Attacks on health care in the West Bank 1 January- 15 June 2025

Humanitarian Situation West Bank. Key Highlights 25 June 2025

    A new military notice in Firing Zone 918 in Masafer Yatta threatens to destroy all structures across 13 Palestinian communities, placing at least 1,200 people, including over 500 children, at risk of forced displacement.
    Between 17 and 23 June, Israeli settlers shot and killed one Palestinian man and injured 10 others.*
    Between 13 and 23 June, OCHA documented at least 32 incidents in which Israeli soldiers temporarily took over 240 inhabited or uninhabited Palestinian homes, forcibly evicted or detained the residents and used their homes as military outposts and interrogation centres.
    The right to education of nearly 13,000 students, including more than 6,500 girls, is at threat should the Israeli authorities execute pending demolition orders against 84 schools across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, warns the Education Cluster.
    Since 6 June, Israeli forces have demolished about 100 structures, mostly homes, in Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps during their operations.
    Over the past two weeks, nearly 320 residents in three Palestinian communities in East Jerusalem have faced renewed threats of displacement by demolitions and forced evictions.

 

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Ataques al sistema sanitario en Cisjordania 1 enero-15 junio 2025

 

 

 

Destrucción del sistema sanitario de Gaza por Israel. Sistemática y cobarde (no hay defensa alguna). Junio 2025

IMPACTO EN LA SALUD 
Muertes por desnutrición: 52
Muertes por frío extremo: 17
Casos de enfermedades infecciosas: 2.136.026

ATAQUES A ESTRUCTURAS SANITARIAS 
Hospitales completamente destruidos: 9
Hospitales parcialmente destruidos: 25
Fosas comunes en hospitales: 7
Ambulancias atacadas: 115

EL SISTEMA SANITARIO EN GAZA ESTÁ SIENDO DESTRUIDO DE FORMA DELIBERADA Y SISTEMÁTICA POR ISRAEL

TRABAJADORES SANITARIOS 
Asesinados: 1.185*
Detenidos: 181
*Otras fuentes: 1.400

 

HOSPITALES
Funcionan completamente: 0
Funcionan parcialmente: 19
No funcionan: 17

 

PERSONAS HERIDAS Y ASESINADAS 
Asesinadas: más de 60.000* (*Diversos estudios calculan: 180.000/300.000)
Heridas: más de 125.000
Necesidad de evacuación urgente: 10.000

REFERENCIAS

-https://gazahcsector.palestine-studies.org/en
-https://skwawkbox.org/2025/06/19/analysis-of-israels-figures-shows-it-
murdered-377000-palestinians-during-genocide-so-far-half-of-them-kids/
-https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-
3/fulltext

Gaza...desde dentro... Hospital Europeo...

Doctors on the frontline: Victoria Rose and Tom Potokar take you inside the war in Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bycLTzFFkwk

Since no journalists are allowed into Gaza, two British doctors have been filming what they’re witnessing inside hospitals that are being hit almost daily. They’re risking everything just to get the truth out.

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15 junio 2025

Denunciamos Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) como Organización Criminal EEUU-Israelí.

La distribución de alimentos por la GHF es junto al hambre la principal estrategia genocida de Israel Han de frenar esta organización criminal y restablecer corredores humanitarios

La estrategia Israel-EEUU a través de la GHF va mas allá de normalizar su imagen mediante un cínico a asistencialismo o de deslegitimizar organizaciones humanitarias como @unrwaes.bsky.social Es una herramienta para crear caos e inestabilidad social, forzar desplazamiento, deshumanizar y asesinar a la población palestina. Ni los mecanismos de distribución de alimentos ni su composición muestran una mínima capacidad técnica. No se ajustan a las necesidades ni composición demográfica en Gaza Kits de alimentos sin aporte proteico, que precisan cocinado previo y sin incluir leches nutricionales de apoyo en la lactancia,

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6 June 2025 Editorial British Medical Journal

This week a United Nations motion demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza was vetoed by one country—the US.1 The result: more death and destruction. Donald Trump’s administration began by cutting foreign aid, and the UK dutifully followed (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1132).2 The outcome of withdrawing US global health funding: an estimated 25 million deaths over the next 15 years.3 For a few rich men to wield political power, millions of people are dying.

A recently published strategy to “make America healthy again” places child health at its centre, albeit with the evident fallacy that children in the US have never been sicker.4 Although the emphasis on child health is a good one, the proposed solutions—in keeping with the MAGA playbook—are likely to worsen child health. The report itself was prepared with the help of artificial intelligence, which has resulted in embarrassment over made-up and misquoted references (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1150).5 Attention to detail in addressing what the administration sees as the US’s most urgent challenge is shockingly absent.

Another feature is the ideological and scientifically suspect vendettas that the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, seems to be driven by. Democratic power should not be about political revenge. This sense of score settling extends to a potential ban on federal scientists from publishing in some prominent medical journals (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1110).6 Instead, federal institutions will publish their own journals. In tandem, politicians will be the ultimate arbiters of fairness, best practice, and research misconduct in federal science. The outcome: chilling political control over medical science.

What does this do for the credibility of other senior US health and science appointees? The administration’s view on science is an unscientific one, far from a “gold standard” (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1173).7 According to MAGA science, unless there’s a placebo controlled trial, data don’t exist to support decision making. It’s an argument that’s used to create doubt over the safety of MMR vaccination or covid vaccination for pregnant women—and public health interventions in general. It’s an argument that’s patently false and dangerous.8

Yes, randomised controlled trials remain the gold standard for evaluating interventions. If the current evidence base is built on low quality observational studies—even small randomised trials—and uncertainty exists about the benefits and harms of standard therapy, a placebo controlled trial may well be appropriate. But when robust observational or trial data reassure us about the safety and efficacy of a standard therapy, a placebo controlled trial is unethical. In the case of covid vaccination in pregnant women, a large systematic review published in BMJ Global Health does provide that reassurance.9
A journal’s job

Contempt for facts, science, and evidence does not put America or Americans first; it places political and personal agendas first. This agenda driven approach is enabling mass death around the world and starvation in Gaza (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1133).10 The US is isolated as the prime supporter of a regime that, despite its status as a democracy, is inflicting starvation and, according to Amnesty International, committing genocide in Gaza.1112

The calamity facing Palestinians was evident 18 months ago when too many political leaders gave Israel unconditional support (doi:10.1136/bmj.p2681).13 It is entirely consistent to condemn the attacks of October 2023 and wish for the safe return of hostages, while standing against Israel’s disproportionate and probably illegal military action in Gaza.

Why does this matter to a medical journal? Should we stay in our lane? Mass death and starvation do matter to a medical journal. Reporting on wanton destruction of health facilities, and on the killing of health professionals and humanitarian aid workers, is the business of a medical journal. Political decisions, as we see most vividly in Trump’s administration, directly and indirectly affect health and wellbeing. Addressing the political determinants of health is firmly in a medical journal’s lane. Medical journals that avoid the impact of political decision making on health are not doing their job.

Add to this the role of doctors in conflict zones. Many doctors leave conflict zones for their own safety and that of their families. For example, the World Health Organization estimated in 2021 that 40% of doctors had left Lebanon (doi:10.1136/bmj.r989).14 However, others stay and continue to serve their communities in extremis. Doctors and health facilities are not legitimate targets in conflicts according to humanitarian law, but they are now attacked with impunity (doi:10.1136/bmj.q2474).15 Doctors also travel to conflict zones such as Gaza to contribute to patient care and to prop up the health system; to save lives in high risk settings.

When facts are hard to establish, when independent media access is banned, and when state propaganda replaces truth, the voice of doctors working in those conflict zones perhaps offers the most powerful account of events. Many doctors have provided testimony about the distress they have witnessed in Gaza.1617 Has any doctor in Gaza, or returning from Gaza, said that there’s nothing to see here—that the accounts of death and destruction are exaggerated? These medical professionals, many of whom voluntarily risk their lives in a conflict without moral limits, confirm the collective horror the rest of us are experiencing at second hand.

The doctors’ testimonies must be taken seriously, as must the independent reports by UN and non-governmental agencies. With over 50 000 people killed since 7 October 2023, 640 000 displaced in the past three months, and nearly 3000 young children with malnutrition diagnosed in the second half of May,18 arguing against a permanent ceasefire has become morally repugnant.

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6 junio 2025 Editorial British Medical Journal

Esta semana, una moción de las Naciones Unidas que exigía un alto el fuego permanente en Gaza fue vetada por un solo país: Estados Unidos.

El resultado: más muerte y destrucción. La administración de Donald Trump comenzó recortando la ayuda exterior, y el Reino Unido la siguió obedientemente. El resultado de retirar la financiación estadounidense a la salud mundial: aproximadamente 25 millones de muertes en los próximos 15 años.

Para que unos pocos ricos ejerzan el poder político, millones de personas están muriendo. Una estrategia publicada recientemente para "devolver la salud a Estados Unidos" centra la atención en la salud infantil, aunque con la evidente falacia de que los niños en Estados Unidos nunca han estado tan enfermos.

Si bien el énfasis en la salud infantil es acertado, es probable que las soluciones propuestas, en consonancia con la estrategia MAGA (Hacer que Estados Unidos vuelva a ser grande), empeoren la salud infantil. El informe en sí se elaboró ​​con ayuda de inteligencia artificial, lo que ha generado controversia debido a referencias inventadas y mal citadas. Sorprendentemente, la atención al detalle al abordar lo que la administración considera el desafío más urgente de EE. UU. brilla por su ausencia. Otra característica son las vendettas ideológicas y científicamente sospechosas que parecen impulsar al secretario de salud estadounidense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. El poder democrático no debería basarse en la venganza política. Este ajuste de cuentas se extiende a una posible prohibición a los científicos federales de publicar en algunas revistas médicas prominentes. En cambio, las instituciones federales publicarán sus propias revistas. A la vez, los políticos serán los árbitros definitivos de la imparcialidad, las mejores prácticas y la mala conducta investigadora en la ciencia federal.

El resultado: un control político paralizante sobre la ciencia médica. ¿Qué consecuencias tiene esto para la credibilidad de otros altos cargos de salud y ciencia en EE. UU.? La visión de la administración sobre la ciencia es acientífica, lejos de ser un "estándar de oro". Según la ciencia MAGA, a menos que exista un ensayo controlado con placebo, no existen datos que respalden la toma de decisiones. Es un argumento que se utiliza para sembrar dudas sobre la seguridad de la vacuna triple vírica (MMR) o la vacunación contra la COVID-19 para mujeres embarazadas, y sobre las intervenciones de salud pública en general. Es un argumento manifiestamente falso y peligroso.

Sí, los ensayos controlados aleatorios siguen siendo el estándar de oro para evaluar intervenciones. Si la base de evidencia actual se basa en estudios observacionales de baja calidad, incluso ensayos aleatorios pequeños, y existe incertidumbre sobre los beneficios y los daños de la terapia estándar, un ensayo controlado con placebo podría ser apropiado. Pero cuando datos observacionales o de ensayos robustos nos confirman la seguridad y la eficacia de una terapia estándar, un ensayo controlado con placebo es poco ético.

En el caso de la vacunación contra la COVID-19 en mujeres embarazadas, una amplia revisión sistemática publicada en BMJ Global Health sí ofrece esa tranquilidad.

El desprecio por los hechos, la ciencia y la evidencia no prioriza a Estados Unidos ni a los estadounidenses; prioriza las agendas políticas y personales. Este enfoque, impulsado por una agenda específica, está propiciando la muerte masiva en todo el mundo y la hambruna en Gaza.

Estados Unidos se encuentra aislado como principal defensor de un régimen que, a pesar de su condición de democracia, está infligiendo hambruna y, según Amnistía Internacional, cometiendo genocidio en Gaza.

La calamidad que enfrentan los palestinos se hizo evidente hace 18 meses, cuando demasiados líderes políticos brindaron apoyo incondicional a Israel. Es totalmente coherente condenar los ataques de octubre de 2023 y desear el regreso seguro de los rehenes, al mismo tiempo que nos oponemos a la acción militar desproporcionada y probablemente ilegal de Israel en Gaza.

¿Por qué es importante esto para una revista médica? ¿Deberíamos mantenernos en nuestra línea? La muerte masiva y la hambruna sí son importantes para una revista médica. Informar sobre la destrucción indiscriminada de centros de salud y sobre el asesinato de profesionales de la salud y trabajadores humanitarios es tarea de una revista médica.

Las decisiones políticas, como vemos más claramente en la administración Trump, afectan directa e indirectamente la salud y el bienestar. Abordar los determinantes políticos de la salud es una tarea ineludible para una revista médica. Las revistas médicas que evitan el impacto de la toma de decisiones políticas en la salud no están haciendo su trabajo. A esto hay que sumarle el papel de los médicos en zonas de conflicto. Muchos médicos abandonan las zonas de conflicto por su propia seguridad y la de sus familias. Por ejemplo, la Organización Mundial de la Salud estimó en 2021 que el 40 % de los médicos habían abandonado el Líbano. Sin embargo, otros se quedan y continúan sirviendo a sus comunidades en situaciones extremas. Según el derecho humanitario, los médicos y los centros de salud no son objetivos legítimos en los conflictos, pero ahora sufren ataques con impunidad. Los médicos también viajan a zonas de conflicto como Gaza para contribuir a la atención al paciente y apuntalar el sistema de salud; para salvar vidas en entornos de alto riesgo.

Cuando los hechos son difíciles de establecer, cuando se prohíbe el acceso a los medios independientes y cuando la propaganda estatal sustituye a la verdad, la voz de los médicos que trabajan en esas zonas de conflicto quizás ofrezca el relato más contundente de los acontecimientos. Muchos médicos han testificado sobre la angustia que han presenciado en Gaza.

Algún médico en Gaza, o que regresa de Gaza, ha dicho que aquí no hay nada que ver, que los relatos de muerte y destrucción son exagerados? Estos profesionales de la salud, muchos de los cuales arriesgan voluntariamente sus vidas en un conflicto sin límites morales, confirman el horror colectivo que el resto de nosotros experimentamos de primera mano.

Los testimonios de los médicos deben tomarse en serio, al igual que los informes independientes de la ONU y de organismos no gubernamentales. Con más de 50 000 personas asesinadas desde el 7 de octubre de 2023, 640 000 desplazadas en los últimos tres meses y casi 3000 niños pequeños con desnutrición diagnosticados en la segunda quincena de mayo, argumentar en contra de un alto el fuego permanente se ha vuelto moralmente repugnante.