Doctors Without Borders (MSF) claimed this Monday in Madrid that the Israeli Government “allows fuel to enter Loop”otherwise the Strip will continue “without drinking water and hospitals will stop functioning.”
David Cantero, MSF coordinator based in Jerusalem, and Raúl Incertis, an anesthesiologist recently evacuated from the conflict zone, made a statement to the media. “wake up call” about the ravages of this war in health terms.
“Without fuel the desalination plants do not work, which means there is no drinking water”highlighted the coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories.
“This is the breeding ground for all the epidemics that we can think of to break out,” Cantero warned after stating that this shortage of drinking water, the destruction of the wastewater system and the lack of waste collection are some of the threats to the health of the Palestinian population.
Likewise, he warned that this is not a coming problem, but that it is already registered “many cases of children with diarrhea, respiratory diseases and the first cases of chickenpox are occurring.”
For this reason, he requested an increase in humanitarian aid, since what is currently arriving is only “a drip”, given that “We talk about dozens when we should talk about hundreds” of trucks a day with those supplies for Gaza.
“If there is no fuel, the distribution of humanitarian aid to the 2.3 million people living in the Strip cannot be carried out,” projection.
Many hospitals, such as Gaza’s largest, Al-Shifah, have had to turn off their electricity generators and reduce consumption “turning off machines” and “closing some incubators”he related.
“The request that we are insistently making over and over again from MSF is that the civilian population must be protected and health structures and personnel, as well as ambulances, must be protected. “Even in war there are certain rules,” Cantero insisted, denouncing that international humanitarian law is not being respected.
Furthermore, he highlighted that “Working in the Strip is extremely difficult”because “no one is safe” and the health personnel are before the “dilemma of going south seeking protection or staying caring for the patient at the bedside.”
MSF insists on a ceasefireor “immediate, lasting and unconditional” so that “end the indiscriminate killing of the civilian population” in the Gaza Strip.
A month of war between Israel and Hamas has already left more than 11,000 dead, of them almost 10,000 in Gaza, 241 captives in the Strip and hundreds of Israeli soldiers inside the enclave, whose population is suffering a humanitarian catastrophe.
Source: Gestion
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