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Israel-Gaza: WHO voices concern over spread of disease in Gaza as IDF warns Gaza
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Israel-Gaza: WHO voices concern over spread of disease in Gaza as IDF warns Gazans to flee the south
Fighting continues more than five weeks after the terror attack on Israel by Hamas, which sparked a retaliatory bombing and ground offensive by Israel.
The World Health Organization has expressed worries over the spread of disease in Gaza as winter arrives.
The start of the rainy season and the possibility of flooding have increased fears that the densely populated enclave’s sewage system will be overwhelmed and disease will spread.
In the south of Gaza leaflets were dropped from Israeli aircraft, warning Palestinians to “head to known shelters”.
WHO concerned about the spread of disease in Gaza
The World Health Organization has said it is very worried about the spread of disease in Gaza as weeks of Israeli bombardments have led to the population crowding into shelters with scarce food and clean water.“We are extremely concerned about the spread of disease when the winter season arrives,” according to Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
He said that more than 70,000 cases of acute respiratory infections and over 44,000 cases of diarrhoea had been recorded, figures higher significantly higher than expected.
WHO has previously warned of “worrying trends” in the spread of disease in Gaza, where bombardments and a ground offensive have disrupted the health system, access to clean water and caused people to crowd into shelters.
The start of the rainy season and the possibility of flooding has also increased fears the densely populated enclave’s sewage system will be overwhelmed and disease will spread.
The absence of fuel already has forced the shutdown of sewage pumping stations and desalination plants, increasing the risk of water contamination and the outbreak of disease.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday that about 813,000 internally displaced people are staying in at least 154 shelters run by UNRWA, the UN Palestinian refugee agency.
“Overcrowding is leading to the spread of disease, including acute respiratory illness and diarrhoea, raising environmental and health concerns,” OCHA warned.
Israeli troops retrieve body of soldier held hostage
The Israeli military says it has retrieved the body of Corporal Noa Marciano, who was abducted on October 7, from a structure adjacent to Al-Shifa Hospital.On Tuesday it confirmed the death of the soldier after Hamas issued a video of her alive followed by images of what the group said was her body after she was killed in an Israeli strike.
The IDF has now said her body was returned to Israeli territory on Thursday where it was identified by medical and rabbinate personnel before informing her family.
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