Israel's War on Palestinian Health
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War on Gaza
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The problem of Palestinian is, they fail both in making peace and war
A year ago, Israel launched a devastating attack on the Palestinians in Gaza killing over 1,400 of them - mostly innocent civilian of whom over 400 were once children.
The consequences of Israel’s attack on the Palestinians, which the aforementioned UN report stated constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, are devastating for the civilian infrastructure: an estimated 4,100 homes were destroyed and an additional 15,000 damaged (thousands were made double-refugees). Nine out of ten Palestinians in Gaza suffer frequent power cuts while the rest have no power at all. Water and sewage treatment plants were heavily damaged during the war (raw sewage flowed onto the streets during the war) and supplies for repair have not been allowed into the Strip due to the ongoing blockade which prohibits more than a drip-feed supply of goods from entering (80% of the Palestinians in Gaza are dependent on UN aid food).
As a result, in a heavily-dense population center of 1.5 million roughly 32,000 have no running water and an estimated 100,000 infrequently receive water about once every few days. Furthermore, “the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which looks after Palestinians refugees across the Middle East, says that the rate of infectious diseases, including diarrhea and viral hepatitis, which result from bad water and sanitation, has risen.” [The Economist.] Among many reported findings to be discussed further in this paper, the United Nations fact-finding, post-war Mission in Gaza states that the Namar water wells, for instance, were “destroyed by multiple air strikes on the first day of the Israeli aerial attack” and that “the mission considers it unlikely that a target the size of the Namar wells could have been hit by multiple strikes in error.”
And the devastation continues:
In a report marking the first anniversary of the war, the Dameer Centre for Human Rights reported "high levels of deformed births and miscarriages", and that the use of radioactive and toxic ammunition by the Israeli army on Gaza resulted in significant deterioration in the health of Palestinians. The report was based on a survey that found that health and environmental conditions in the Gaza Strip are worsening by the day as a result of Israel's aggression and border closure by occupying forces for the third consecutive year.
