Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council: Urgent update on Health consequences of war on Gaza

https://www.jvphealth.org/blog-1/urgent-updatehealth-consequences-of-war-on-gaza-october-19-2023

The Health Advisory Council is sharing information on the health implications of the genocidal attack on Gaza on day 12 of aerial bombardment.  We will update in 3-4 days.  Please use this information to write articles, letters to the editor, for calling elected officials, and speaking with your professional organizations, friends and family. Using starvation as a weapon of war constitutes a war crime under Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Convention. Gallant’s order is a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute. It is also a call for genocide, prohibited by the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute. Call for cease fire and humanitarian relief as first step.

Gazans killed: 3,000 including 853 children, 12,500 injuries, (excluding Al Ahli Hospital)

47 families have wiped out, approximately 500 people

Israelis and foreign nationals killed: 1300, 4,229 injured

West Bank including East Jerusalem: 61 killed by soldiers and settlers, including 16 children, 1240 injuries including 117 children, 82 settler/soldier attacks with casualties or property damage, 850 Palestinians detained in WB by Israel

Gaza internally displaced persons (IDPs): approx 1 million, 352,000 staying in UNRWA schools

8,840 housing units destroyed; 5,434 housing units damaged and or uninhabitable

167 educational facilities bombed, at least 20 UNRWA schools, two used as emergency shelters for IDPs, 140 Palestinian Authority (PA) schools bombed, one destroyed. One university building and seven churches damaged, at least eleven mosques were destroyed.

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City bombed with approx 500 killed.

51-77 attacks on health care, 15-16 fatalities of health care workers, 27-28 injuries, damage to 26 hospitals and other healthcare facilities, including 17 hospitals and 61 ambulances. WHO delivered 10,600 liters of stored fuel to Shifa Hosp, more than 50% of essential drugs at zero stock, (less than a month supply), despite threats if they do not evacuate, health workers continue to work

Only cancer hospital, Turkish Palestinian Friendship Hosp will end services, no fuel.

Approx 20,000 mentally ill people have no access to services and drugs and constant exposure to violence

Approx 50,000 pregnant women face extreme challenges to accessing prenatal and maternity care, 5,500 due in coming month.

Distress call to gas station owners for diesel for hospitals

No medical referrals outside of Gaza since 10/7/23

Civilians attempting to relocate south struck and killed by explosive weapons. Attacks continue on Rafah City and Khan Yunis in the south (presumably “safe” areas)

No bomb shelters, safe rooms, warning alarms; shortages of food, diesel, fuels, meds & equipment, water (av total consumption 3 liters per day per person for all needs), sewage systems not functioning, complete closure continues, no fishing. People drinking brackish well water. 2 weeks of essential food commodities, 4-5 days of stocks in shops, 5 bakeries bombed

Armed groups continue firing on Israel

199 people held captive in Gaza

Hundreds of Gazans who were working in Israel, unable to return home, hundreds now detained and 1,000 transferred to West Bank

US vetoes UN Security resolution calling for “humanitarian pause”

Humanitarian aid stalls due to Israeli airstrikes, destruction of area around Rafah crossing

Sources OCHA, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Aljazeera, UN News, Haaretz, UN population Fund (UNPFA), The Lancet, Middle East Eye, CNN, Btselem, WHO, Mondoweiss

This from American Friends Service Committee

List of healthcare workers in Palestine and their title/place of work that have been killed by Israel since October 7, 2023 according to reports from Palestinian Ministry of Health and local media agencies as of 10/15/2023 

Physicians: 

1. Dr. Omar Ferwana, a Professor and former Dean of the Islamic University of Gaza Medical School and an andrologist, Gaza

2. Dr. Aya Ferwana (Dr Omar Ferwana’s daughter), a family medicine specialist, Gaza

3. Dr. Medhat Saidm, a senior burn and plastic surgeon, Shifa Hospital, Gaza and MSc in Burn Care alumnus from Queen Mary University of London

4. Dr. Mohammed Dabour, a consultant pathologist and dean of the pre-clinical medicine at the Islamic University of Gaza Medical School

5. Dr. Tamer Al-Khayyat, an anesthesiologist and intensivist, European Gaza Hosptial, Rafah

6. Dr. Mahmoud Al-Khayyat, an internist in Rafah and Dr Tamer Al-Khayyat’s father

7. Dr. Razan Al-Rakhawi (Dr Tamer Al-Khayyat’s wife), an obstetric and gynecologist, Emirati Women’s Hospital, Rafah

8. Dr. Sereen Al-Attar a consultant obstetric and gynecologist at Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis and an Assistant Professor at the Islamic University of Gaza Medical school

9. Dr. Saeed Drabieh, a urology resident, Shifa Hospital

10. Dr. Mohammed Al-Samarai, Iraqi volunteer intern physician 

 Dentists:

1. Dr. Ahmed Al-Hourani

2. Dr. Nada Mahdi 

3. Dr. Ibrahim Al-Dali

4. Dr. Bilal Lubbad 

 Medical students:

1. Bisan Halasa 

2. Shaimaa Saydam

 Medical Sciences: 

1. Prof. Salah El-Din Zanoun 

 Nurses: 

1. Mohammed Labad  

2. Mohammed Al-Azzaiza  

3. Ahmed Moshtaha  

4. Rami Lubbad  

5. Duaa Jad Allah  

6. Samiya Tamraz  

7. Mohammed Rafat Gomaa  

8. Osama A'eed Abu Safiya  

9. Saber Al-Nimnim  

10. Mohammed Hamad  

11. Mohammed Al-Baz  

12. Suleiman Abu Zour  

13. Badr Mohammed Abu Daqah  

14. Shaimaa Rayan (Midwife) 

 Paramedics (EMS providers): 

1. Marwan Abou Raida

2. Hatem Awad

3. Khalil Al-Sharif

4. Ahmed Al-Dahman

5. Yasser Al-Nasri 

6. Ahmed Abdel Rahman 

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