Youngsters beneath 15 years outdated made up nearly a 3rd of outpatients handled for wounds in area hospitals run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Gaza final yr, statistics revealed in The Lancet reveal.
The figures have been launched by MSF in correspondence with the respected medical journal and are available from six well being amenities in Gaza supported by the worldwide medical NGO. The amenities are predominantly within the south and centre of the devastated territory.
Greater than 90,000 outpatient consultations involving wounds have been carried out on the amenities in 2024. Bombs, shelling or taking pictures was concerned in just below half of those, MSF mentioned.
The dying toll within the Israeli offensive launched following the Hamas raid into Israel in October 2023 has risen to greater than 62,000, in response to a depend by the ministry of well being in Gaza that’s utilized by a lot of the UN, and which the British government says is a “affordable determine”. Of those, greater than half are ladies or kids.
The proportion could be higher. Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, the Guardian revealed last week.
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