The collapse of the healthcare system Gaza Stripdue to the attacks on hospitals and the lack of medicines and fuel for the normal functioning of the structures, also has dramatic repercussions on cancer patientswhich they need life-saving therapies and regular tests and checks. Eman Shannan is a women’s rights lawyer and former cancer patient. A few weeks ago, due to her health conditions, she managed to escape from the Strip and today she is in Jordan, where she is fighting to help people cancer patients remained in Gaza without the possibility of treatment. “There are 9 thousand patients waiting to leave Gaza, they will die if they do not have treatment and therapy” he says in an audio testimony collected by Oxfam, a partner of his association. The only oncology center in the Strip is the Turkish hospital, destroyed two months ago. Then there are 4 thousand women deprived of hormone treatment since November.” See also
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Oxfam also highlighted how new data on hunger in Gaza points the way to famine. A fate that seems “inevitable if Israel continues the war”, limiting access to humanitarian aid. “This new report shows that levels catastrophic of hunger in Gaza are the highest ever recorded on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) scale, both in terms of the number of people affected and as a percentage of the total population. – underlines Paolo Pezzati, spokesperson for humanitarian crises for Oxfam Italia – Never before have we witnessed the evolution of a such a serious situation within a short time. In a few days the population in the north of Gaza will find itself facing a real famine, a situation that will also arise in the south very soon without a ceasefire and an adequate humanitarian response. Many kids they are already starving while the international community remains inert“. The responsibility of this situation “are to be attributed to Israel which continues to not allow food and other essential goods to enter Gaza. For 5 months now hunger is used as a weapon of war, while paradoxically conditions have further worsened since the International Court of Justice in The Hague ordered Israel to allow humanitarian intervention. The scale of the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe is such as to represent a real risk of genocide”
The story is part of a series of testimonies collected by Oxfam operators and managers in Gaza who ilfattoquotidiano.it decided to publish. The goal is to have a first-person account from civilians in Gaza, those who are currently paying the highest price for the conflict.
THE PETITION – There will be no significant humanitarian response without an immediate ceasefire. This is why Oxfam has launched an urgent appeal to the Italian government and European leaders which can be joined on:
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