Aid agencies and health workers say that an incursion will only worsen the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and heap untold misery on Rafah.
A Palestinian girl who was injured during a recent Israeli bombing in Gaza is brought by ambulance to the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah refugee camp, early Friday, May 3, 2024. / Photo: AP
"Escalation could also render the European Gaza Hospital inaccessible. This will have a knock-on effect on the overall health system as patients will need to be transferred to other already overcrowded hospitals, putting their health further at risk," WHO said in a comment emailed to"A new wave of displacement will lead to more overcrowding, reduced access to essential food, water, and sanitation services, and increased infectious disease outbreaks.
Over 1M displaced Palestinians are running out of time and places to escape after Israel dropped evacuation leaflets onto Rafah ahead of an expected ground invasion.
"I think it's really important to point out that, yes, there's the primary impact of this very violent conflict — the injuries, the mental trauma — but there is also a huge amount of suffering and morbidities that we don't see on a daily basis: increasing rates of malnutrition, increasing rates of diarrhoea," Lockyear says, adding the pressure for people to move again is"an obscene thought".
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