The Gaza Government’s media office announced that more than a million cases of infectious diseases have been reported due to mass displacement in the besieged Gaza Strip.
“About 1,089,000 cases of infectious diseases and 8,000 cases of hepatitis C have been registered in Gaza,” the office said on Monday.
Israeli attacks have forced more than 1.4 million people to flee their homes and seek refuge in Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip near the border with Egypt.
“There are 10,000 cancer patients in danger of death and in urgent need of medical assistance,” the media office said.
In the attacks launched by Israel on October 7 in the Gaza Strip, at least 33,297 Palestinians were killed and 72,654 were wounded.
Israel has also imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip, leaving its population, especially the residents of northern Gaza, on the brink of starvation.
Israel’s war has pushed 85 percent of Gaza’s population into internal displacement due to acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60 percent of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to UN figures.
