“I met a little boy who was injured by a tank shell on one of these sites on the last day of me leaving Gaza – I learned that this little boy had died since these injuries,” said a UN children’s funds (Unicef) spokesperson James Elder. “This testifies both what is happening on these sites and what is not happening with regard to medical evacuations. »»
A recent online video featuring an Abed al-Rahman dying by 13 years that Mr. Elder met during his mission in Gaza has been seen thousands of times since its publication on June 6. In the clip, Abed explains that he asked for pain relief for his shell injuries, but none is available.
Addressing Amman journalists, Mr. Elder explained that hospitals partly destroyed, including Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, continue to treat injured children, despite a shortage of medicines and medical supplies.
“Humanitarian aid is much more than food in a box; These are oxygen kits, they are fans, they are hygiene packs; These are drugs, they are incubators, “he said. “It is all these things that the United Nations did a few months ago. »»
Mr. Elder added that the parents that children need oxygen have left the hospital “due to the fear that Nasser would be attacked again. As doctors told me, if you have a child who needs oxygen and they leave without oxygen, they will die, over time, in a tent. “
Despair, famine
The disastrous shortage of the most basic survival aid linked to Israeli restrictions continues to create despair and famine through Gaza.
“I spoke to a grandmother in tears saying: How am I perhaps to go to these sites?” Mr. Elder explained. “I have met young men who have been and have never returned with anything for seven times. So there is a total lack of equity. There is a total lack of sites. You cannot distribute help in a militarized area, in a combat zone, by a part of the conflict. ”
Those who are most sensitive to the lack of drinking water, food and fuel, the lowest gas are the weakest: young pregnant women, the elderly and the amputees, said Mr. Elder.
It would be impossible for them to browse the long distances necessary to recover rare supplies from controversial aid centers.
Mortal choice
“You have half a million people faced with famine with a deadly choice to be forced in very small pockets where most people cannot access what is officially known as combat sites,” said Unicef spokesperson. “We know children [who have been] killed on these sites.
Meanwhile, malnutrition and its impact on weakened immune systems of people continue to wreak havoc, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) warned.
“The latest reports indicate that 610 patients have been admitted due to serious malnutrition complications,” said WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier. “But what does that mean?”
“This does not count the many who were too weak to reach any point, which are too weak, which cannot be transported because the roads are blocked, because there are no ambulances, or because hospitals, some of the health centers of health have been bombed and bombed and are constantly bombed and bombed. »»
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