On anniversary, 900 Gazans remain in need of care for injuries sustained in 2014 Judaic massacre
WAKE UP PEOPLE! THE PALESTINIANS ARE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND THEY ARE SLOWLY BEING MURDERED BY THESE COCKROACHES IN HUMAN FORM. SOON, THEY WILL COME AFTER YOU AND THEY WILL DO THE SAME THING OR EVEN WORSE TO YOU IF YOU DON'T STOP THEM NOW. WE NEED TO ACT AGAINST ORGANIZED JEWRY AND FREEMASONRY NOW! THESE ARE YOUR REAL ENEMIES AND THEY ARE POWERFUL. BUT WHEN WE ARE ONE, THEY CAN NEVER DEFEAT US.
Some 900
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to require medical attention as a
result of permanent disabilities they sustained during Israel’s
devastating 51-day assault on the small territory that began on July 8,
2014, according to UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian
refugees.
On the
second anniversary of the war, the Gaza Strip’s Shifa hospital had 3,839
registered patients waiting for scheduled operations, more than half of
which were classified as major surgeries, according to a statement
published Monday by UNRWA, adding that surgical appointments were being
scheduled for as far away as 2018.
“Some
patients are still suffering two years after their injury and need
ongoing care. Many others are still waiting for prosthetic limbs. The
state of prosthetics in Gaza is still very precarious,” Dr. Mahmoud
Matar, an orthopedic surgeon at Gaza’s Shifa hospital told UNRWA.
UNRWA
stressed in their statement that “The long waiting lists have left many
frustrated, sometimes in unnecessary pain and facing health risks
associated with delayed care.”
Meanwhile, a significant part of Gaza’s
healthcare infrastructure remains severely damaged, which according to
the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization
(WHO) had already been near collapse prior to the start of the
hostilities.
Al-Wafa
hospital in Gaza City and three primary healthcare clinics were
completely destroyed in the war, in addition to 18 hospitals and 60
clinics that sustained damages.
“To date,
all of these facilities have been or are in the process of being
repaired/reconstructed, with the exception of the al-Wafa hospital which
requires major funding to proceed with reconstruction,” UNRWA said.
A total of 11,200 Palestinians — including 3,800 children — were wounded in the war, according to UN documentation.
Meanwhile,
some 36,000 Palestinians — 20 percent of the Gaza Strip’s population —
are estimated to require mental health support as a result of the war,
according to the WHO.
UNRWA said the backlog in treatment was
mainly due to the lack of skilled personnel in the Gaza Strip’s
crumbling healthcare system.
“This
situation is partially a result of the (Israeli enforced) blockade,
which limits outside training opportunities, and of the internal
Palestinian divide, which has left public employees recruited by the de
facto authorities, including health staff, without regular salaries.”
The Gaza
Strip has suffered under an Israeli military blockade since 2007, when
Hamas was elected to rule the territory. Residents of Gaza suffer from
high unemployment and poverty rates, as well as the consequences of
three devastating wars with Israel since 2008, most recently in the
summer of 2014.
The 51-day
Israeli offensive, termed “Operation Protective Edge” by Israeli
authorities, resulted in the killings of at least 1,462 Palestinian
civilians, a third of whom were children, according to the UN.
The UN has
said that the besieged Palestinian territory could become
“uninhabitable” by 2020, as its 1.8 million residents remain in dire
poverty due to the nearly decade-long Israeli blockade that has crippled
the economy, while continuing to experience the widespread destruction
wrought by the Israeli offenses, and the slow-paced reconstruction
efforts aimed at rebuilding homes for some 75,000 of Palestinians who
remain displaced following the last Israeli assault.
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