With pale faces and traces of skin diseases in the form of large pimples and blisters appearing on their bodies, children wait on the beds of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, to receive treatment amid a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies due to the ongoing occupation aggression since October 7, 2023.

In the densely populated displacement areas of the Gaza Strip, skin diseases have spread due to the lack of hygiene, water scarcity, and the spread of sewage and waste, which has exacerbated the health situation.

Last Saturday, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that "children in the Gaza Strip are facing difficult conditions amid skin diseases, an unsanitary environment and endless hostilities."

The UN organization added, in a post on its account on the "X" platform, that "the children of Gaza face difficult conditions, including skin diseases, an unhealthy environment, and endless hostilities."

Inside the hospital, mother Rana Abu Karnoub looks at her two daughters with great sadness due to the spread of large pimples on their bodies, which doctors classified as "chickenpox."

Abu Karnoub lives with thousands of families in Abu Hussein School in Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip after being displaced from her home in Beit Lahia town due to the aggression.

The mother inside the school suffers from the spread of waste, sewage, and lack of cleaning materials, which has caused the spread of skin diseases among the displaced.

She told Anadolu Agency: "We were displaced to a school crowded with displaced people, as there was no alternative. There are people suffering from skin diseases due to the spread of sewage, waste and mosquitoes, and the lack of healthy food and the scarcity of clean water."

She added: "Our children suffer from severe skin diseases, and their health has deteriorated significantly, with large pimples spreading over their bodies."

She continued: "There is no treatment for the children, no clean place for us to sit, and we suffer from tragic conditions inside the displacement schools."

According to medical sources, the number of displaced persons who have contracted infectious diseases as a result of repeated displacement trips due to the ongoing occupation aggression has reached more than 1.5 million displaced Palestinians.

The situation of Muhammad Al-Basyouni is no different from that of the displaced Abu Karnoub, as he also suffers from a lack of cleanliness in the environment and the spread of skin diseases among his family members.

Al-Basyouni says: “We were displaced to the school due to the aggression and the destruction of my home in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. Here, there is no clean water or cleaning materials. There is great pollution in the water, and the children have been afflicted with skin diseases.”

He added: "My children have suffered from various skin diseases due to pollution, and there is no treatment for them."

Dr. Mohammed Al-Sheikh at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza says: “Skin diseases have spread among the displaced due to environmental pollution, lack of clean water, unavailability of healthy food, and accumulation of waste and sewage.”

He added to Anadolu Agency: "Skin problems are spreading in the overcrowded displacement areas due to pollution resulting from the repercussions of the aggression."

The occupation's aggression on the Gaza Strip caused the destruction and damage of the infrastructure of the sewage sector, especially pumping stations, home networks and transmission lines, in light of the occupation's cutting off of the fuel supplies needed to operate the pumps.

Since the beginning of the aggression, citizens have been facing the suffering of displacement, as the Israeli army orders residents of residential areas and neighborhoods to evacuate them in preparation for bombing, destroying, and penetrating them.

During their displacement, citizens are forced to seek refuge in the homes of their relatives or acquaintances, and some set up tents in the streets, schools, or places such as prisons and amusement parks, in light of difficult humanitarian conditions, the absence of water and food, and the spread of diseases.

The Israeli occupation has continued its aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the martyrdom of 39,258 citizens, the majority of whom were women and children, and the injury of 90,589 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.