It seems the
letter from the 99 doctors who were in Gaza sent to the Biden on 10/2 didn't get enough attention. Here's what they wrote.
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90% of the population has been displaced.
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More than 50% of the healthcare infrastructure has been destroyed by the IDF.
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1,000 healthcare workers have been killed by the IDF (1 out of 20).
- With rare exceptions,
everyone in Gaza is sick or injured, or both. That includes national health workers and international volunteers. Epidemics are raging.
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"Israel’s shocking continued, repeated displacement of the malnourished and sick population of Gaza to areas without running water or toilets guarantees to result in widespread death from viral and bacterial diarrheal diseases and pneumonias".
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Every child under the age of five encountered, both inside and outside of the hospital,
had both a cough and watery diarrhea.
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96% of the population suffers from
acute food insecurity.
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Malnutrition led to widespread spontaneous abortions,
underweight newborns, and
an inability of new mothers to breastfeed.
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9 out 10 children in Gaza don't have the food necessary for their daily needs (which will have major consequences regarding their physical and intellectual development).
- It is likely that
62,413 people already starved to death (conservative estimate), most of them being children, as a result of the on-going starvation campaign carried out by Israel since 10/7.
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The hospitals lack basic supplies
from surgical material to soap. They are
regularly cut off from electricity and Internet access and
denied clean water.
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5,000 patients with chronic diseases died (conservative estimate) due to the lack of appropriate medication
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Stillbirths and maternal deaths are occuring at a high rate and could've been easily avoidable if the hospitals functioned normally.
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Pre-teen children shot in the head or in the chest (sniper wounds) are treated on
a regular or even daily basis.
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390 bodies have been discovered in mass graves at Nasser and Al Shifa hospital,
including women and children whose bodies showed
signs of torture and summary execution or who had been buried alive.
- Out of all the
children killed,
710 have been identified as newborns and
1,400 as toddlers or children under the age of two.
That's in
one year and it only takes into account the damages caused to the healthcare system, not the rest. And the nightmare is by far not over.
In consequence, any smartass and/or scumbag still downplaying the genocide of the Palestinians unfolding right before our eyes and/or defending the racist psychopaths carrying it out can go to hell.