12/24/2023 4:39 pm (current 12/24/2023 4:40 pm)
Gaza is sinking into rubble and ash ©APA/AFP
According to UN estimates, there are currently around 50,000 pregnant women living in the besieged Gaza Strip. There are more than 180 births every day, the UN Palestinian aid agency UNRWA said on Platform X on Sunday. “Doctors and midwives are doing everything possible to care for women who have recently given birth and high-risk pregnant women in seven (of the 22) UNRWA health centers that are still operational,” he said.
The situation of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip is very serious in many places. People are camping in makeshift campsites or outdoors as the weather gets increasingly bad.
With its attacks, Israel responds to the Hamas massacre on October 7, which left more than 1,200 people dead and the abduction of more than 240 people to the Gaza Strip.
According to the UN Emergency Relief Office, more than 1.9 million people in the Gaza Strip are now internally displaced, or around 85 percent of the population. Many of them sought shelter in overcrowded UNRWA facilities.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, wrote in X: “The decimation of the health system in Gaza is a tragedy.” However, faced with constant uncertainty and the arrival of new injured people, doctors, nurses and ambulance drivers continued to work to save lives.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi again called for a humanitarian ceasefire on Sunday. He wrote about a future of more hate and less peace.”