Civilians in Gaza are facing a catastrophic situation, the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell has said, comparing the territory’s destruction to that of Germany during World War II.
Health services have been devastated, with only 14 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals functioning at any capacity, according to UN humanitarian agency OCHA.
In central Gaza, Al-Aqsa hospital was inundated with victims Monday, including dozens of screaming children, after Israeli strikes on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.
As basic supplies run out and sanitary conditions deteriorate, women and girls in Rafah said they had been forced to use scraps of cloth for menstrual periods.
“I cut up my kid’s clothes or any piece of cloth I find,” said 25-year-old Hala Ataya.
