PALESTINE

Sun 01 Jun 2025 12:00 pm - Jerusalem Time

Zaqout: The Gaza Strip has become a place of death, and the famine rate has reached 100%.

Dr. Bassam Zaqout, director of the Medical Relief Organization in southern Gaza, said that targeting and destroying hospitals is part of the Israeli occupation's ethnic cleansing policy against the citizens of the Gaza Strip, which has become a place of death. The intensity of the bombing has increased in recent days, and famine has reached 100%.

Speaking to Voice of Palestine on Sunday, Zaqout confirmed that there is no safe place in Gaza, adding that conditions inside hospitals are deteriorating, as they continue to operate with minimal resources and suffer from a severe shortage of medical supplies, fuel, oxygen generators, and equipment.

Zaqout added that treatment is unavailable to 10,000 cancer patients, while a large number of dialysis patients have died. The remainder are receiving minimal treatment, putting their lives at risk.

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Zaqout: The Gaza Strip has become a place of death, and the famine rate has reached 100%.

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