Quoted by the Safa news agency, Al-Barash reported that 44,000 orphans and more than one million children are suffering from psychological trauma in that coastal enclave, which has been under Israeli fire since October 2023.

This weekend, the director of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, warned that more than 200 patients could die due to the lack of medicines and malnutrition caused by the attacks and blockade by the neighboring country.

In an interview with Al Jazeera television, the doctor emphasized that the hospitals in that territory are overcrowded with wounded as a result of the army’s continued bombing.

He noted that amputations are increasing due to the inability of antibiotics to combat bacteria.

Earlier this month, the health official accused the Israeli armed forces of destroying 70% of the health system in the Strip.

The director of Al-Tahrir Hospital, Ahmed Al-Farra, also denounced the serious deterioration of the health situation in the territory due to the unprecedented increase in malnutrition and the number of sick people.

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