Over 20,000 injured Palestinians trapped in Gaza with ‘limited access to healthcare’: Report
Over 20,000 wounded Palestinian people are still trapped in the Gaza Strip with “limited access to healthcare,” according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), despite initial evacuations of foreign passport holders and badly injured Palestinians across the border to Egypt.
In a statement on Wednesday, MSF said there are still over 20,000 injured people in Gaza with limited access to healthcare due to the Israeli siege.
The organization further said its Palestinian staff were still offering care in the territory while its 22 international staff members in Gaza were among those who left the territory via the Rafah border crossing.
Another international team was waiting to enter the territory to replace those who left “as soon as the situation allows,” it added.
The organization went on to call for a greater number of people to be evacuated, as well as for a ceasefire and for more critical aid to be allowed in.
The head of the UN agency that works to help Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, managed to reach the territory on Wednesday via the Rafah crossing, telling journalists there he had “never ever seen” anything like it.
Meanwhile, according to health officials, the only cancer treatment hospital in the Gaza Strip has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel amid the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the besieged enclave.
Subhi Skaik, the director of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital said during a press briefing on Wednesday that the hospital, which mainly treats cancer patients, had used up its fuel and was now out of service.
“We tell the world don’t leave cancer patients to a certain death due to the hospital being out of service,” said Skaik.
Since October 7, Israeli attacks have killed nearly 8,800 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including more than 3,600 children.
The Israeli regime has also imposed a complete siege on the territory as well as cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to more than two million people living in the densely populated area.
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