Epidemic diseases are spreading among children in the Gaza Strip due to the ongoing Israeli aggression and the resulting lack of medicine, food and water. The Ministry of Health in Gaza describes the health situation in the Strip as catastrophic and extremely painful.

The official spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, confirms that epidemics, infectious diseases, and respiratory diseases are spreading among the displaced in particular, confirming that 10,000 cases of hepatitis A have been detected.

He attributed the spread of hepatitis among the displaced to severe overcrowding and lack of personal hygiene due to the lack of water and sanitary facilities.

For her part, pediatrician Rawan Al-Habbash confirmed that diseases spread among children, such as intestinal infections, hepatitis, and chest and respiratory infections, due to the overcrowding of people and displaced people in schools, the lack of hygiene, sterilization, and unhealthy food, in addition to a major shortage of medicines and the unavailability of antibiotics and vitamins.

For his part, Imad Kabaja, a Palestinian doctor, indicated that a thousand sick cases are recorded daily in the children’s department, stressing that they are losing lives due to the lack of medicines in hospitals.