The government media office in the Gaza Strip announced on Friday that the number of displaced people who were infected with infectious diseases as a result of repeated displacement trips as a result of the ongoing Israeli war reached about 1.5 million displaced Palestinians.

The government office said in statistics published via Telegram: “One million, 477 thousand and 748 displaced Palestinians were infected with infectious diseases as a result of displacement from different areas in the Gaza Strip.”

The office did not clarify whether any injured people had recovered from their injuries, and did not provide any additional details in this regard, but it indicated that the number of displaced people inside the Gaza Strip since October 7 reached two million people (out of a population of 2.4 million).

In its statement, the office warned that 3,500 children in the Gaza Strip face the risk of death from starvation. As a result of the ongoing Israeli restrictions and war since October 7th.

On Thursday, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that 9 out of 10 children in Gaza suffer from a serious lack of food, and that malnutrition increases the risk to life in the Strip, according to a report it published on food shortages among children.

The government media statement in Gaza pointed out that 10,000 cancer patients are facing death and need treatment outside the Gaza Strip, while more than 71 cases of viral hepatitis infection have been recorded, according to the statement.

Hepatitis A is a highly contagious infection that occurs in the liver, and is caused by a virus as a result of consuming contaminated food or drink, or as a result of close contact with a person carrying the disease.

Cases of hepatitis have spread in the Gaza Strip, especially among children, as a result of lack of personal hygiene and water, food contamination, and overcrowding in displacement centers, due to the restrictions imposed by the Israeli army on all necessities of life, according to local institutions.

The statement stated that 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip live without their parents or one of them, as they were killed as a result of Israeli attacks on the Strip.

He explained that there are 60,000 pregnant women who are at risk due to the lack of health care in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian and international organizations had previously warned that the Israeli army would target medical staff and hospitals inside the Gaza Strip, but it ignored those warnings and put most of the hospitals out of service after targeting them and destroying large parts of them.

Since the closure of the Rafah land border crossing with Egypt (south), following Israel’s control over the Palestinian side of it on May 7, coinciding with the start of a ground military operation in the city of Rafah, no sick or wounded person has been able to leave the Gaza Strip, according to previous statements. For the ministry.

Israel continues the war on Gaza despite orders from the International Court of Justice to immediately stop the ground attack on the city of Rafah (south), and to take temporary measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and improve the dire humanitarian situation in the Strip.

Israel also ignores the request of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, to issue international arrest warrants against its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and its Defense Minister, Yoav Galant. For their responsibility for “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” in Gaza.