diseases

Displacement tents in Gaza are breeding grounds for insects and diseases

In a scene reflecting the depth of environmental and health deterioration in the Gaza Strip, reports from Deir al-Balah, conveying a disturbing picture from inside displacement camps. The insect and rodent infestation crisis is worsening, causing widespread skin diseases...

Skin diseases are killing displaced people in Gaza

Inside one of the overcrowded shelters in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, displaced woman Hala Qudaih stands examining her young daughter's body, which is covered in blisters and wounds. This scene encapsulates the suffering of displaced people...

Gaza under siege by silent epidemics

As summer approaches, a serious environmental and health crisis is worsening in displacement camps in the Gaza Strip. The proliferation of rodents and insects poses a daily threat to the lives of thousands of families, already living in harsh...

After cutting off the Mikroot line, the water shortage in Gaza City portends an impending health and environmental disaster

Gaza City is facing one of its most serious humanitarian crises, after water supply has been cut off from more than 85% of its area for 15 days, after the Israeli occupation cut off the main water line, Mikroot,...

In Gaza, diseases are spreading, and treatment is based on conjecture without laboratory tests

The suffering of patients in the Gaza Strip is no longer limited to the shortage of medications; it has extended to something far more serious and painful: the absence of essential laboratory tests that form the cornerstone of disease...

Epidemics and diseases. Nightmare haunts displaced people in Gaza

A report by Oxfam International has revealed that diseases caused by water pollution are widespread among the population of the Gaza Strip, and common problems include respiratory infections, polio, hepatitis, diarrhea and skin infections. The United Nations has estimated that...

UN warns of disease outbreaks through water in Gaza

Israel escalated its air strikes and artillery shelling on Gaza Strip, in conjunction with the ground incursion into the center of the Strip, which resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries, with retargeting homes and residential squares, and three...

Gaza: Spread of hepatitis in places of displacement

Health Ministry in Gaza Strip announced the spread of hepatitis ''A'', as a result of overcrowding in places of displacement, and low levels of hygiene. It warned that the laboratory test for blood "CBC" will be suspended due to...

Gaza: 180 displaced women give birth every day

Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesperson of Palestinian Health ministry in Gaza Strip, reported that 180 displaced Palestinians in shelters give birth daily amid "unsafe and inhumane" conditions. Several hundred thousand displaced children are at risk of health risks, as the Israeli war...

UNICEF: Gaza’s children deprived of 90 percent of their natural water consumption

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that Palestinian children in Gaza Strip do not receive 90 percent of their natural water consumption. "Water and sanitation services in Gaza are on the verge of collapse, and newly displaced children in...

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A battleship hitting and two ships were retrieved… America’s operation in Hormuz ends in disaster

The US suffered a new military strike in Hormuz on Monday as it attempted to impose a new military...