GAZA, Dec 4 (NNN-WAFA) – Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees, per capita, in the world, the UN agency for Palestine refugees said, yesterday.
Many children in Gaza are “losing limbs and undergoing surgeries without even anesthesia,” Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said, on social media platform X.
The World Health Organisation (WHO), estimated in Sept, that, more than 22,500 people, or one in four people injured during the war in Gaza, sustained life-changing injuries, and will need rehabilitation services “now and for years to come.”
“During this war, people needing special care have suffered in silence. Their stories rarely told. But the war has also caused an epidemic of traumatic injuries, with no rehabilitation services available,” Lazzarini said.
Israel has been conducting a large-scale offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct 7, last year.
During the past 24 hours, the bloodthirsty Israeli military killed 36 people and wounded 96 others in the Gaza Strip, bringing the total death toll to 44,502, and injuries to 105,454 since the Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement, yesterday.– NNN-WAFA