Israel’s Military Campaign Has Left Gaza’s Medical System Near Collapse

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The Israeli military’s bombardment and penetration of Gaza person decimated its wellness attraction strategy successful a mode that assistance groups and planetary bodies are progressively calling “systematic.”

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Palestinians receiving attraction astatine a infirmary successful Deir al Balah, successful the cardinal Gaza Strip, this month.Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

By Vivian Nereim and Abu Bakr Bashir

Vivian Nereim reported from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Abu Bakr Bashir reported from London.

April 26, 2024, 5:02 a.m. ET

Before Israel’s penetration of Gaza past year, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Reqeb worked successful 1 of the Palestinian territory’s largest hospitals and had a backstage clinic, caring for women passim their pregnancies.

Now, helium lives successful a integrative structure successful Rafah, a Palestinian borderline municipality wherever astir fractional of Gaza’s colonisation has sought refuge, and treats patients for nary complaint successful different tent. Living nether Israeli bombardment, with shortages of nutrient and cleanable water, the large women helium serves struggle to find basal information and nourishment, fto unsocial prenatal care.

Since the Israeli subject began bombarding Gaza six months agone pursuing the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack, its forces person wrecked entire hospitals, struck ambulances and killed oregon detained hundreds of health-care workers. Israeli restrictions connected goods entering Gaza person prevented lifesaving aesculapian supplies from reaching patients, according to aid groups. And shortages of fuel, h2o and nutrient person made it hard for aesculapian workers to supply basal services.

The effect has been the adjacent illness of a wellness attraction strategy that erstwhile served Gaza’s colonisation of much than 2 million. By precocious March, of the 36 large-scale hospitals crossed Gaza, lone 10 were “minimally functional,” according to the World Health Organization.

Israeli officials accidental that aesculapian centers person been targets due to the fact that Hamas fighters embed themselves wrong and nether the facilities, and that it is the lone mode to basal retired the equipped group. Hamas and aesculapian workers person denied this accusation. Aid groups, researchers and international bodies person progressively been calling Israel’s dismantling of Gaza’s aesculapian capableness “systematic.”

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Al Shifa infirmary this period aft Israeli troops withdrew from the area.Credit...Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters

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