A lack of food, clean water and shelter have worn down hundreds of thousands of traumatized people in Gaza and, with a health system on its knees, it’s inevitable epidemics will rip through the enclave, 10 doctors and aid workers told Reuters.
“The perfect storm for disease has begun. Now it’s about, ‘How bad will it get?'” James Elder, chief spokesperson for the UN children’s fund (UNICEF), said in an interview on Tuesday.
From Nov. 29 to Dec. 10, cases of diarrhea in children under five jumped 66 per cent to 59,895 cases, and climbed 55 per cent for the rest of the population in the