We denounce Gaza’s “silent killings” from preventable disease and lack of access to medical care.
Six months into the devastating war in Gaza, we are standing at a precipice. More than 32,000 people have been killed, 75,000 have been injured, and an estimated 8,000 remain trapped under rubble. The industrial-scale destruction of civilian infrastructure, compounded by a suffocating siege, has pushed the civilian population to the brink. In Rafah – a place the Israeli authorities described as “safe” – military operations are ongoing and the basic conditions for survival of the civilian population are absent.
Doctors Without Borders has witnessed first-hand the human cost wrought by the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system.
Read this report which draws upon medical data and the testimony of patients to demonstrate that even in Rafah, conditions for survival are not in place.
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