Local media reported that the town of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza and the Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the region were the focus of dawn strikes. In southern Lebanon, Israeli fire hit Tire and Nabatieh provinces, killing at least 20 people in the coastal town of Barja, authorities said.
To support medical teams in Lebanon, the World Health Organization (WHO) delivered enough emergency surgical kits and supplies on Tuesday to treat 50 patients at Beirut’s Geitaoui Hospital, with support from the United Nations Central emergency response fund (CERF) and the European Union.
Dr. Abdinasir said the workload at the hospital was already “very high” before Israeli attacks intensified across Lebanon in late September, in response to Hezbollah rocket fire on targets in Israel , “but now the current conflict has added another layer, another complexity.” Abubakar, WHO Representative for Lebanon.
Children are not spared
The WHO official explained that victims from the airstrikes in Lebanon “have overwhelmed hospitals,” stressing that it was important to continue supporting “the only existing burn treatment center in this country. Of the 40 burn patients treated so far, “25% of them are children,” he said.
Originally equipped with 10 beds, Geitaoui Hospital’s burn center now has 25 beds, providing specialized care for seriously injured patients.
There are enough new trauma kits to treat 50 patients twice; Each set has two modules, one containing medications and another containing specialized burn treatments and wound dressings.
Expressing solidarity with Lebanon’s medical professionals, the United Nations’ top aid coordinator in the country condemned ongoing military attacks on medical staff and infrastructure. floors, including ambulances, are “under heavy attack”.
“We need to support them with supplies, we also need to support them with advocacy,” said Imran Riza, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Lebanon. “There have been serious violations of international humanitarian law that we are seeing. So we need to make sure these things don’t happen, so healthcare workers can do what they do, help people and save lives.”
Aid obstacles still exist
Meanwhile in Gaza, the United Nations aid coordination office, OCHA, reported that for almost a month, All efforts by aid teams to provide food to people in besieged areas of North Gaza province have been blocked. by the Israeli government.
In central and southern Gaza, more than 100 kitchens that produce 400,000 meals a day are at risk of closing due to supply shortages, OCHA said in an update.
Healthcare conditions in northern Gaza remain dire, with Kamal Adwan hospital attacked twice in the past week and life-saving supplies denied to Al Awda Hospital.
“Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza has become a war zone under siege,” speak United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Middle East and North Africa Regional Director Adele Khodr.
Condemning the decline in specialist care for newborns across Gaza, Ms. Khodr noted that Kamal Adwan’s neonatal intensive care unit is “the last remaining unit.” [facility] in the north”.
Access to the hospital remains “extremely difficult,” UNICEF officials noted, adding that children treated there are believed to have been killed and injured in this week’s attacks. Oxygen and water supplies were damaged, disrupting vital care for the few people still alive inside, she said.
Caring for a smashed newborn
According to UNICEF, at least 4,000 newborns in the region may have been cut off from neonatal care in the past year “because of continued attacks on hospitals trying to save their lives.” amid power cuts and “inadequate” fuel supply to electric hospitals. “This is especially dangerous in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.”
In his first visit Tuesday to the enclave since Israel launched its latest military campaign in the north a month ago, the United Nations’ top aid coordinator for the occupied Palestinian Territory called for an end to suffering.
“This is not a place for humans to survive,” Muhannad Hadi, from Al-Mamouniya School in Gaza City, run by the United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees, said: UNRWA. “This must end. This misery must end. This war must end. This is beyond imagination.”
Fire and explosion risk: ‘Imminent threat’
More than 42 million tons of rubble and “a high concentration of explosive hazards” also pose “an imminent threat to civilians” in Gaza, OCHA quoted explosive ordnance disposal officers as saying. is still limited.
“Across all five governorates of Gaza, Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) contamination can occur both on the surface and below the surface, not only involving land munitions (bullets, guns) mortars, rockets, missiles, grenades and mines), but also buried bombs, as well as weapons and ammunition depots,” the OCHA update noted.
