Israel’s 2014 bombardment of the Gaza Strip destroyed and damaged more than 50% of the water infrastructure, critically affecting hospitals.
In two days last week, Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip with more than 20 Israeli airstrikes and 10 artillery shellings—
• killing 34 people, including 8 children and a family of eight
• wounding 51 children and 60 adults.
Since March 2018 in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces—
• killed 328 Palestinians, including 46 children
• wounded 19,043 persons, including 4,901 children.
Now, due to Israel forbidding repair of the water infrastructure, the massively overcrowded hospitals must reduce the cleaning and sterilizing of medical equipment and facilities. Hospitals are cleaned when necessary. Staff can only wash their hands when it’s essential, not regularly when going from one patient to another.
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