With the arrival of summer heat waves, Gaza's overcrowded camps for displaced Palestinians face the growing risk of epidemic and disease, the Gaza Civil Defence Agency warned on April 25.
"The suffering of displaced people in the displacement camps in the southern governorates of Gaza seems to be increasing with the intensification of heat waves,'' the agency said in a statement.
It added that this situation "forewarns of the widening spread of epidemics and diseases among them, especially among children and pregnant women."
The statement called on the World Health Organization (WHO) ''to urgently take actions to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees and find alternative places to tents amid severe heat waves in the coming days."
Gaza is experiencing a severe heat wave, with temperatures reaching around 37°C during daylight hours on Thursday.
These children have gotten severe burns from israeli artillery shelling in the North of Gaza. Bare witness to the video and their injuries. People shouldn't look away, they should act against this cruelty being inflicted upon other human beings and stand up against it. Free Palestine.
Journalist Mohammed Ahmed documents a little boy in Beit Lahiya, who has elected to tie his own tiny boy to a makeshift cart so he can pull his baby brother and their few possessions. The boy and his brother are fleeing the area under threat of IOF ground forces, alongside their mother and sister.
12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and detained by Israeli forces.
youtube
"We were collecting vegetables near the razor wire when the Israeli soldiers shot at me five times."
"On the first day I was detained, the soldier hit my head with his baton. To this day my head still hurts! His baton was made of iron!"
He was also beaten up without mercy once he stumbled onto the floor, being told to get up despite the beatings and the injuries he sustained on his leg and stomach.
He was also then "interrogated" by these soldiers, then put under anesthesia, strapped to a bed for two days, and was injected several more times after that. He was forcefully put to sleep day and night.
Forced from their homes by Israel’s relentless onslaught, Palestinians in Gaza’s Rafah surviving in makeshift tents are now enduring a scorching heatwave, with temperatures hitting 40°C, signaling a harsh summer ahead.
Deaf Palestinian boy assaulted by Israeli soldiers
Please watch this. Please reblog, share/spread the video, boost it, do anything you can to help spread awareness.
the israhell army are cowards. They beat this boy, saying his hearing aid was an 'eavesdropping device'. This is extremely despicable. Let the world know of this evil no matter what.
The IOF lies. It's inherently part of their zionist settler-colonial agenda -literally. They are not to be trusted -everything they say is meant to distort and distract people from what is really going on. This is just another example of this.