2023-10-15 11:22:51
The Palestinian Embassy in Argentina, through a statement that includes figures from the Ministry of Health of that country, detailed the terrible situation that hundreds of thousands of civilians are experiencing in the Gaza Strip. According to this detail, the amount of Palestinian deaths this Saturday amounted to 1,949 people, of them 614 children, while the injured number 8,646 people, many of them in serious condition. “Due to the situation, the number of internally displaced people cannot be determined,” the statement said, but the figures circulating regarding this exodus are already close to half a million inhabitants.
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Every hour that passes the violence on the border between Israel and Palestine worsens. The Embassy described the Israeli attacks as “a new episode of Palestinian ethnic cleansing.” In addition to the numbers of injured and fatalities, the Palestinian embassy indicated that 12 members of humanitarian personnel, 9 Palestinian journalists – despite wearing distinctive vests -, 4 paramedics from the Red Crescent and 11 members of the Organization’s health personnel World Health Organization (WHO) died in the Israeli attacks.
Destroyed infrastructure
At least 5,540 homes, according to embassy data, were completely destroyed and 3,743 are considered “uninhabitable.” While at least 32,000 homes suffered moderate damage.
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Regarding building damage, Palestine confirmed that 90 educational centers, including 20 UNRWA schools – 2 of which were reception centers for internally displaced people – were bombed. 1 ANP education center completely destroyed.
Religious temples were no exception. There were 11 mosques destroyed by the bombings and a total of 7, including mosques and churches, with considerable structural damage. The war unleashed in the Middle East left 18 health centers affected and 20 ambulances destroyed.
Critical status
Since October 7, Israel decided to stop supplying electricity to the Gaza area. And since the 11th of the same month, the “Gaza Power Plant ran out of fuel and stopped working, cutting off the only source of electricity and fuel in Gaza.” As detailed in the report, “according to Israeli officials, the plant will be bombed if it receives fuel from abroad.”
As a consequence, 13 hospitals in the Gaza Strip “are partially operating, through generators with catastrophically low energy reserves,” reported from the Palestinian embassy in Argentina.
“The bombing of a total of 11 major facilities used for water, sanitation and hygiene deepened the crisis in providing services to more than 1.1 million Palestinians,” the statement detailed. And he denounced that “Israel cut off the water supply to the Gaza Strip and the three desalination plants stopped working. All of them undermine access to drinking water for 650,000 Palestinians.”
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This means that, since October 12, “the vast majority of residents of the Gaza Strip do not have access to drinking water.” The same statement reported that “the country’s humanitarian team launched an urgent appeal to raise $294 million for 77 agencies and NGOs operating in Gaza.” And he concluded that “the aid is intended for more than 1.2 million Palestinians, not including the population displaced following the Israeli threat once morest the residents of the Northern Gaza Strip.”
The help that does not arrive
Humanitarian aid from several countries is accumulating on Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip, bombed and besieged by Israel, but without being introduced into Palestinian territory, witnesses told AFP.
The Palestinian Rafah crossing, a border crossing into Egypt, has been closed since Monday as a result of Israeli bombings. According to the international agency, a US official stated that Egypt and Israel had agreed to let their compatriots leave the Gaza Strip through Rafah.
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However, Egypt rejected “that the border crossing be dedicated exclusively to the passage of foreigners.” And they added: “The Egyptian position is clear: the condition is that the entry of aid into Gaza be facilitated.”
According to witnesses, the concrete blocks installed by the Egyptians following the Israeli bombings to reinforce their border were still in place, which predicts that aid will not reach the hands of those in need, at least in the next few hours.
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