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According to CCTV News, on December 26, local time, the chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Hezi Al-Halewi, said that the Israeli army is expanding its military operations in the southern and central Gaza Strip, and "the military operations in the Gaza Strip will continue for several months." ”
The Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip said on the 25th that so far, the current round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict has killed 20,000 Palestinians and injured 54,000. According to Israel, more than 1,300 Israelis have died in the current round of clashes.
Israeli ground forces conduct military operations in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Xinhua News Agency
According to the report on the 26th, an Israeli soldier died in an Israeli hospital after being infected by a dangerous fungus in the Gaza Strip, and people began to worry that the infectious disease circulating in Gaza could be introduced into Israel and pose a threat to Israeli civilians.
At the same time, Palestinian officials said on the 26th that Israel had returned the remains of 80 Palestinian personnel detained by Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing. The Hamas media office issued a statement saying that the bodies had clearly been stolen by Israel, "not the first time Israel has done this." However, the report also pointed out that the above claims could not be independently confirmed.
The Gaza epidemic threatens to spread to Israeli health experts: the disease knows no borders
It is reported that two weeks ago, after being evacuated from the Gaza Strip, a soldier was taken to the Asuta Ashdod Medical Center in Israel after being seriously injured by an infection. During treatment, the soldier was found to have an illness caused by two different fungal infections and eventually died from his injuries and infection.
According to the report, although the Israeli military has not yet determined the cause of the soldier's death, it has confirmed that among the wounded soldiers who returned to Israel from Gaza, there are cases of fungus similar to that of the deceased soldier. It is reported that in the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, at least 10 Israeli soldiers have been diagnosed with multiple infections.
Nadav Davidović, dean of the School of Public Health at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, noted that many soldiers returning to Israel from the Gaza battlefield have more serious infections, most of which are caused by people who have open wounds and contact with contaminated land. "But so far, there has not been a large-scale 'soldier infection with an epidemic in Gaza'. He said. However, it stressed that the disease knows no borders and that the disease that is prevalent in Gaza can spread to Israel in a short period of time, and that "we need to take these situations seriously." ”
Experts have been warning of possible public health safety concerns for people living in the Gaza Strip due to improper wastewater treatment, air pollution from garbage incineration, and limited access to health care, the report said. In the aftermath of the current round of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, health problems have become even more severe, and displaced Gazans have had to face dire living conditions: far from adequate water availability, inadequate food, and poor medical facilities.
In addition, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the 22nd, in the current environment, due to the lack of adequate toilets, the phenomenon of open defecation in the Gaza Strip has become more common, which also means that the spread of the disease may be faster. Public health experts call the environment "simply fertile ground for infectious diseases." The report pointed out that as the Israeli army continues to fight in Gaza, the possibility of Gaza infectious diseases being brought to Israel will also increase. "If the war continues, there will be more contact between the soldiers and the local population, and there will be more likelihood that [Israeli troops] will contract an infectious disease and bring it back to Israel. Davidovich explained.
Open defecation in the Gaza Strip has recently been reported to have become more widespread
According to OCHA data, children under the age of 5 in Gaza have reported 25 times as many cases of diarrhoea since the current round of conflict as before the conflict. Professor Ronit Calderón Magritte, head of the Hadassah School of Medicine at the Hebrew University, analyzed that special attention needs to be paid to gastrointestinal infections transmitted by fecal-oral transmission. According to the report, respiratory infectious diseases such as new crown and influenza also need to be paid attention to. In addition to this, there is also the potential for the spread of such diseases, given that children in Gaza may not be eligible to be vaccinated against polio or measles.
The Hamas media office claimed that Israel had stolen the deceased organs, but could not independently confirm this
Palestinian officials said on 26 June that Israel had returned the remains of 80 Palestinian personnel detained by Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing. It is reported that Israel has not disclosed the specific identities of the dead and where they were taken from.
Palestinian officials said on the 26th that Israel had returned the bodies of 80 Palestinian personnel detained by Israel
In a statement, the Hamas media office condemned Israel for stealing organs from these remains. After examining the remains, it was evident that the characterization of the bodies had changed significantly, "which clearly shows that Israel has stolen vital organs from these (Palestinian) people," the statement said. This is not the first time Israel has "mutilated" the remains of Palestinians, and Israel has also taken dozens of bodies from the Gaza Strip, the media office said. The media office called on the international community to investigate this. However, the report said that the above claims could not be independently confirmed.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitoring Body, an independent non-profit organization, reportedly said last month that it had documented the collection of dozens of bodies by Israeli forces from hospitals such as the Shifa Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. Medical personnel found that the bodies were missing livers, kidneys, hearts, corneas, etc., and Euro-Mediterranean human rights monitors considered them "potential evidence" of Israeli theft of human organs.
In 2009, Swedish media personality Donald Bostrom published an article suggesting that the Israeli army had been killing young Palestinians and harvesting their organs since the 90s of the 20th century. However, he said he had no conclusive evidence and wished to call on the international community to investigate the matter in order to obtain evidence. Israeli physician Mera Weiss also mentions in her book "On the Corpse" that between 1996 and 2002, Israel harvested organs from a number of dead Palestinians, which were transplanted into Israeli patients or used for medical research at Israeli universities.
Source: Red Star News (Reporter Li Jinrui) Comprehensive CCTV News, Overseas Network
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