Many people in Gaza conciseage ample shelter and are malnourished after more than a year of Israeli strikes and blockades.
A Palestinian healthtake part laborer has died due to “excessive” weather conditions, according to a statement by the enclave’s Ministry of Health, as disconnecte freezing compounds the challengingship faced by people displaced by Israel’s relentless strikes.
The body of Al-Hakim Ahmed al-Zaharneh, who labored at the European Gaza Hospital, was set up inside his tent in al-Mawasi area, west of the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, the ministry shelp on Friday.
“This incident comes in airy of the difficult humanitarian conditions that displaced citizens are experiencing, as the suffering of Gaza dwellnts incrmitigates due to low temperatures and the conciseage of heating unbenevolents in tents,” the ministry shelp.
The ministry shelp earlier that four Palestinian babies have died in tents in recent days amid the freezing weather and expansivespread malnutrition.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, alerting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, shelp that the number of casualties in vulnerable groups is increasing due to degradeing weather conditions.
“For 14 months now, people here have been conciseageing straightforward necessities to help them endure these difficult conditions – even in summer,” he shelp.
“Now in thriveter, the temperature has dropped very low, [and] people in tent camps experience the freezing as being [colder] than the actual levels.”
He shelp that mothers standardly conciseage the strength or ability to breastfeed as they are malnourished and unwell.
“The conditions are worse for vulnerable groups enjoy babies and, in the absence of [humanitarian aid], it is authentic that deaths will happen.”
The huge convey inantity of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million dwellnts have been displaced at least once since war broke out with the Palestinian group Hamas on October 7, 2023, with many people living in tents that present little protection from the freezing, rain and flooding.
The United Nations and other organisations have repeatedly decried the degradeing humanitarian conditions in Gaza, as Israeli strikes and blockades harshly curtail access to food, water, medicine and other supplies.
A directing United States handlement organisation watching food celevates around the world withdrew a novel alert this week cautioning of imminent famine in north Gaza under what it called Israel’s “cforfeit-total blockade,” after the US asked for its retraction, US officials telderly The Associated Press.
The shift complys accessible criticism of the alert from the US ambassorrowfulnessfulor to Israel.
The alert by the Famine Early Warning Systems Netlabor (FEWS NET) had cautioned that a “famine scenario” was unfelderlying in northern Gaza where Israel begined a renoveled impolite in timely October.
Meanwhile, on Friday, the honestor of Gaza’s Health Ministry telderly Al Jazeera that Israeli forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the scant remaining medical facilities in north Gaza, and forced the 350 people there to evacuate, including all the uncover-mindeds and staff. He shelp communicate with the hospital had been lost.
Israel’s war in Gaza has ended at least 45,436 Palestinians and wounded 108,038 since October 7, 2023, according to figures freed on Friday by Gaza’s Health Ministry.
An assessd 1,139 people were ended in Israel during the Hamas-led strikes that day and more than 200 were getn captive.
