Palestinian officials say the death toll from 75 days of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has passed 20,000 \u2014 or nearly 1% of the population of the besieged territory. At least 8,000 children are among the dead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gaza City, December 21 (RHC)– Palestinian officials say the death toll from 75 days of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has passed 20,000 \u2014 or nearly 1% of the population of the besieged territory. At least 8,000 children are among the dead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Wednesday, a World Health Organization emergency team reached the al-Ahli Hospital, which had been northern Gaza\u2019s last functioning medical facility where people could undergo surgery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
WHO team coordinator Sean Casey says conditions have further deteriorated, with the bodies of the dead placed in rows in the courtyard, patients who\u2019ve gone weeks without needed surgery and growing rates of postoperative infections due to a lack of antibiotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Casey said: \u201cWhat we found here is a hospital that\u2019s really almost completely stopped functioning. Two days ago, a number of staff were detained. Just last Saturday, we visited Al-Shifa, and they were telling us how they were sending surgical cases here because al-Ahli had some of the only operating theaters left in northern Gaza and Gaza City, and those are now no longer functional. They don\u2019t have specialists. They don\u2019t have surgeons. They don\u2019t have power. They don\u2019t have water. They don\u2019t have food.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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