Israel Is Choking Gaza, Dismantling the Conditions for Survival, and Continuing the Crime of Genocide

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF):

Israel Is Choking Gaza, Dismantling the Conditions for Survival, and Continuing the Crime of Genocide

• 43,000 people are living with life-changing injuries.

• MSF teams have treated more than 200,000 cases of trauma and direct physical violence-related injuries.

• Families are being forced to live in severely overcrowded and uninhabitable conditions.

• Ointments used to treat scabies have been banned and restricted from entering Gaza by the Israeli authorities.

• More than 80% of facilities and buildings in the Gaza Strip have been affected by destruction, preventing any genuine recovery for many years to come.

• 18,500 patients require specialized medical treatment outside the Gaza Strip, but they are prevented from travelling.

• More than 900 patients and injured people have died while waiting for medical evacuation permits to receive treatment abroad.

• The UN humanitarian aid distribution system has been dismantled and replaced by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in areas under Israeli military control.

• 43,000 people are living with life-changing injuries.

• More than 50,000 people require long-term medical rehabilitation.

• Around 6,000 limb amputations, including 1,500 amputations involving children, have been recorded amid a massive and persistent shortage of rehabilitation services, equipment, and prosthetic limbs.

Amand Bazirol, Head of Emergency Response for MSF – Gaza/Palestine:

• “Recovery from the damage inflicted on people over the past three years and previous decades will require successive generations.”

• “The devastating consequences of Israel’s genocide continue every day.”

• “Destruction, displacement, and deprivation have become a reality imposed by Israel with complete impunity.”

• “Governments must act immediately to stop the killing and destruction, prevent ethnic cleansing, and end the