With great tenderness and affection, Umm Atef Tayeh embraces her infant child whose body has become weak and exhausted due to illness and malnutrition, due to the family’s disability due to the lack of food and health care in the Gaza Strip.
In light of Atef’s condition (5 months), the mother is unable to provide him with treatment and food after he became a skeleton unable to do anything due to the lack of supplies in the Strip as a result of the Israeli siege and the closure of the crossings.
The family displaced from Gaza City (north) to Deir al-Balah (center) suffers from the suffering of repeated displacement due to the brutal attacks of the Israeli army and the lack of health care for their child who lives in a tent that lacks the most basic necessities of life.
The child – who suffers from cancer in the ureter and malnutrition – needs permanent and urgent health care and special milk, which are not available in the Strip besieged by Israel.
In the midst of the harsh living conditions resulting from the war, the infant suffers from a lack of ventilation inside his tent made of nylon and cloth, where temperatures rise significantly and reach 35 degrees Celsius.
Faced with these tragic conditions, the infant’s health suffering increases, which negatively affects his condition and increases the difficulty of his condition and the pain that accompanies it.
The family hopes to obtain food for their child and the possibility of transferring him outside the Strip to receive treatment and provide him with a better life away from suffering and pain, and enable him to live like all children in the world.
About 3,500 children in the Gaza Strip face the risk of death due to malnutrition and food shortages, while about 10,000 cancer patients need to travel to receive treatment outside the Strip, according to the latest statistics from the Government Media Office in Gaza.
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Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, Israel has cut off electricity and prevented the entry of fuel to operate the only power plant, in addition to stopping water supplies, communications, food, and treatment, and closing the crossings.
Currently, “very limited” medical supplies and international aid are entering Gaza through Israel, and are not enough to meet the needs of the residents of the Strip, who are suffering from catastrophic humanitarian and health conditions.
With the Israeli war, more than 2 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes, and are currently living in inhumane conditions, according to a recent statement issued by the government media office in Gaza.
Since the beginning of the war on Gaza, the Israeli army has been forcing Palestinians to leave their homes and head to areas it claims are “humanitarian”, yet it targets them with bombing and commits massacres.
Displaced Palestinians are forced to establish temporary camps in various locations in the Gaza Strip after they were forced to leave their homes.
These camps lack the most basic elements of human use, and represent a temporary refuge for many families who were displaced as a result of the bombing.
With American support, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, leaving more than 136,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and deadly famine.
In contempt of the international community, Israel continues this war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to stop it immediately and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and to improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.
