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After 22 months of relentless bombardment, mass displacement and loss, every child in Gaza craves peace and stability. Here's ...
The United Nations refugee agency has revealed that one in ten children screened in Gaza's clinics has been malnourished ...
Gaza's own healthcare facilities have been stretched under a 16-year Israeli-led blockade and repeated rounds of fighting. “In previous wars, the crossing would close for a day or two, but then ...
The healthcare crisis in Gaza has grown more catastrophic as a result of the continued shelling by the Israel Defense Forces—a grotesque contradiction in nomenclature—of the 140-square-mile ...
Even if the fighting in Gaza stopped now, about 8,000 more people could still die there over the next six months due to the public health crisis caused by the Israel-Hamas war, according to a ...
At least 20 Palestinians died in a stampede at a Gaza aid site amid Israel’s blockade and a deepening humanitarian crisis.
The health care crisis in Gaza is unthinkably grim, even by the standards of war-ravaged regions. Infectious diseases from chickenpox to cholera are sweeping through the population; crucial ...
The Health 202 The health-care crisis in Gaza. October 20, 2023. The Washington Post’s essential guide to health policy news. Sign up for Health Brief newsletter. Analysis by Fenit Nirappil.
In just over a century, the health system in Gaza has been administered by six authorities: the Ottomans until the end of World War I, the British during the mandate period from 1917 to 1947 ...
The al-Manasra family faces dire water shortages in Gaza's harsh conditions, exacerbated by a missile strike and ongoing ...
Since the war began, mental health professionals have reported an unprecedented surge in distress. Calls to crisis hotlines have spiked by hundreds of percent, and for the first time, over 60% of ...
DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip — The war in Gaza is maiming minds as well as bodies. A burgeoning mental health crisis in the tiny coastal enclave is vastly overshadowed by the scale of death and ...