Anesthetics, crutches, dates. Inside Israel’s ghost list of items arbitrarily denied entry into Gaza | CNN
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Humanitarian workers and government officials working to deliver urgently needed aid for Gaza as disease and near-famine grip large parts of the coastal enclave say a clear pattern has emerged of Israeli obstruction of the multi-billion-dollar humanitarian effort.
  • filister@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    These include anesthetics and anesthesia machines, oxygen cylinders, ventilators and water filtration systems.

    Other items that have ended up in bureaucratic limbo include dates, sleeping bags, medicines to treat cancer, water purification tablets and maternity kits.

    What kind of monsters are blocking anaesthetics, water filtration systems, sleeping bags, cancer medicine and maternity kits? Seriously what’s the reasoning behind apart of pure hatred for all the Palestinians and mass punishment?

    Further north, at least six children have died in hospitals in recent days from dehydration and malnutrition, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

    In a January 13 press conference, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted about permitting “minimal humanitarian aid” to enter Gaza.

    “I’ve never seen a supply chain that ought to be so simple be so complicated,” said Save the Children US president and chief executive Janti Soeripto. “The level of barriers being put in place to hamper humanitarian assistance; we’ve never seen anything like it.”

    She said toys were rejected because they were in a wooden box rather than a cardboard box, sleeping bags were denied because they had zippers, and sanitary pads were turned back because a nail clipper was included in the hygiene kit.

    Over 1,000 children have undergone leg amputations in Gaza, according to UNICEF, some without anesthesia. That figure was compiled by UNICEF at the end of November and has not been updated since.

    In the absence of appropriate medical supplies, Abu-Sittah concocted a solution to fight infection: dish soap mixed with vinegar and saline.

    “I would pour that over the wound and scrub the wound down,” Abu-Sittah said. “It was probably the darkest moment of my life. The child was screaming. The parent was crying, and you’re trying to just block all of this out and do it as quickly as possible.

    “But knowing that if you hadn’t, that child would be dead by the end of the day.”

    Another humanitarian source inside Gaza said that in early February he witnessed a six-year-old child with burns covering 40% of her body. She was at a hospital in Rafah, the best supplied population center in Gaza, where medics could only give her aspirin to ease her agony.

    Israel’s restrictions have also impacted medicines for the chronically ill. For weeks, COGAT temporarily prevented insulin pens for children with diabetes from entering Gaza,

    This is next level of evil!