British doctors have warned that the long-term effects of Israel’s war on Gaza could end up quadrupling the Palestinian death toll.
The Guardian, Doctors Ghassan Abu-Sittah and Nizam Mamode, both of whom worked in Gaza after the war broke out in October 2023, said the rise of infectious disease, the number of health problems linked to malnutrition and Israel’s destruction of Gaza's healthcare system meant that the mortality rate would be abnormally high following the ceasefire.
children who survived war were more likely to get non-communicable diseases if they had malnutrition.
estimated could be the true Gaza death toll - over three times the 61,707 given by the Gaza health ministry.
targeting Gaza’s healthcare workers, with Dr Abu-Sittah saying entire medical specialities had been erased from the enclave and training replacements would take up to 10 years.
providing evidence to Scotland Yard and the International Criminal Court.
gave evidence to MPs last year to the British parliament’s international development select committee, where he described Gaza as resembling Hiroshima.
difficulty while trying to share his experiences working in the enclave, and was the target of censorship by Germany. He was investigated and slapped with a Schengen-wide travel ban that has since been overturned.
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