▲ A Palestinian couple cooks among the ruins of their home, destroyed by the Israeli army in northern Gaza.Afp Photo
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Tuesday, July 30, 2024, p. 23
Gaza Strip., The Gaza Strip has been declared a polio epidemic zone by the Ministry of Health, a situation attributed to the intensification of Israeli combat operations and bombings over the past nine months.
The ministry recalled that polio had been eradicated in Palestine for many years, but that this situation deprived the population of drinking waterin addition to destroy the health infrastructure and provoke the accumulation of tons of garbage.
An analysis by the United Nations (UN) for the fight against polio virus type CVPv2 found the virus in wastewater from Khan Yunis and central provincesthe Ministry of Health said on Telegram.
This polio epidemic It is a threat to the health of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip and neighbouring countries, and a setback for the global eradication programme. of the disease, he warned.
Gaza health authorities warned that the current program in force, which has the collaboration of international organizations will not be enough unless there is immediate intervention to end Israeli aggression and find radical solutions facing the population.
Meanwhile, Palestinian medical sources announced the death of a six-year-old child from hunger, bringing the death toll from this scourge to 39.
The boy, identified as Ali Anas Tatar, died at Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, health officials were quoted as saying by the official Wafa news agency.
The Israeli army said it detained nine Israeli soldiers for questioning over allegations of abuse against a Palestinian held in a grim facility where Israel holds prisoners during the course of the war in Gaza.
According to Israeli media, the prisoner is a Palestinian who was allegedly mistreated at the Sde Teiman detention centre in the Negev desert in southern Israel.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club, an NGO that defends those detained by Israel, accuses the soldiers of rapedenouncing a New crime against a prisoner in the Sde Teiman camp by a group of prison guardsdirector Abdallah Zaghari told the AFP news agency.
Later, dozens of protesters who came to show their support for the soldiers stormed the gate of the facility, waving Israeli flags and chanting shame!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and army chief General Herzi Halevi condemned the protests. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant criticized the demonstration, stressing that the law applies to everyone, even in difficult timesaccording to a statement.
Hamas accused the Israeli prime minister of preventing a ceasefire by adding new conditions to the US-backed proposal. Netanyahu has once again returned to the strategy of procrastination, delays and evasion to avoid an agreement by raising new conditions and demands.the Palestinian group denounced in a statement.
The Islamist faction accused Netahanyu of retracting a proposal put forward by the mediators which he said had already been based on a Israeli document.
Following the Hamas statement, the Israeli leader accused the Palestinian armed group of avoid an agreement and maintained that On the contrary, it is Hamas that has so far requested 29 changes and has not responded to the original proposal.Netanyahu’s office said.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner General of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, stated that only 14 percent of the territory of Gaza is not under evacuation ordersand also regretted that Almost all Gazans have been affected by these orders..
