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Families bid a tearful goodbye to over a dozen critically ill children who left Gaza for treatment abroad on Thursday. It’s the first medical evacuation since the territory’s sole travel ...
The country director of Women for Women International for Palestine stated lack of clean water and sanitation had led to disease outbreaks such as diarrhea, due to poor hygiene scabies, lice and skin rashes were increasing, and dialysis patients and thousands of female cancer patients had no access to treatment. [484] The Gaza Health Ministry ...
On 15 February 2024, the United Nations reported that Israel had destroyed its Rehabilitation Centre for Visually Impaired, a clinic for visually impaired children, stating the "centre was available to all visually impaired children across the Gaza Strip and provided braille machines, canes, [and] visual aids". [210]
Before the war, there were high numbers of children in Gaza that had documented high levels of emotional distress and mental illness, with a study in 2011 found that among Palestinian children PTSD rates were between 23-70%, [29] while a UNICEF study in 2021 found one in three children in Gaza needed care for conflict-related trauma. [30]
By Doaa Rouqa. GAZA (Reuters) - Siraj Yassin, 10, is rolled into the overcrowded Gaza hospital ward in his wheelchair, his light green T-shirt dwarfing his skinny frame since the leukaemia in his ...
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Children and children's rights have long been a focal point of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict, dating as early as the 1929 Hebron massacre and the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre, both of which claimed the lives of children, precipitating a long conflict that has often led to the displacement, injury, and death of youths.
PHOTO: Diaa, age 15, arrives in Chicago on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024 to seek medical care in the U.S. after being injured in Gaza. He will be receiving treatment in Portland.