People's health direly impacted by poor living conditions in Gaza: MSF
Iran Press TV
Friday, 24 October 2025 5:22 PM
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says deteriorating living conditions in the Gaza Strip are severely affecting Palestinians' health, urging the Israeli regime to allow "unimpeded humanitarian assistance."
"Malnutrition, inadequate sanitation, and poor living conditions are taking a devastating toll on people's health," said MSF medical coordinator Adi Nadimpalli, the organization reported on Thursday.
The organization said in a written statement that the displacement, along with the massive destruction of civilian infrastructure and the health system by Israeli forces, is creating the "perfect storm" for disease and illness to spread.
"Israeli authorities should immediately allow a massive scale-up of humanitarian assistance to flow freely into Gaza," it said.
The Israeli genocidal war on Gaza from October 2023 to October 2025 made the people of Gaza exceptionally vulnerable.
Israel's "two-year-long genocidal campaign" has left people "traumatized, injured, and dangerously exposed to the elements as winter approaches," MSF said.
"Without immediate improvements to water, sanitation, shelter, and nutrition, more people will die from entirely preventable causes," it added.
"The Israeli authorities must immediately allow a massive scale-up of unimpeded humanitarian assistance to enter Gaza," stressed the organization.
Earlier this week, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Gaza Government Media Office also warned of dire conditions despite the October 10 ceasefire deal.
It said the Israelis' restriction on the number of aid trucks entering Gaza reflects "the continued policy of strangulation, starvation and humanitarian blackmail practiced by the [Israeli] occupation."
The WFP also reported on Tuesday that food deliveries to Gaza remain far below the agency's target of 2,000 tons per day.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has renewed its call for all of Gaza's border crossings to be opened to facilitate both the delivery of humanitarian aid and the evacuation of patients in need of urgent care.
"All medical corridors need to be opened," said Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO representative in the Palestinian territory.
He warned that, at the current pace, evacuating the 15,000 people requiring treatment — including 4,000 children — "would drag on for a decade or so."
On the ground, local authorities report little progress in relief operations.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza's civil defence, said there has been "no real improvement" except for the limited entry of aid trucks that "fail to meet the minimum needs of the affected population."
In a statement on Telegram, he described the extent of the destruction, saying, "Homes remain destroyed, bodies are still trapped beneath the rubble, and roads are blocked by debris, while the Civil Defence teams continue to work with almost no resources amid massive devastation that covers every corner of the Strip."
Basal appealed to the international community to take immediate measures, urging the entry of heavy machinery and engineering equipment without restrictions, the establishment of safe humanitarian corridors, and greater logistical and financial support for recovery efforts.
He also called for guarantees of legal and humanitarian protection for rescue and medical personnel working under extreme conditions.
Together, the warnings from WHO and Gaza's civil defence highlight a grim reality: despite promises of aid and reconstruction, the situation on the ground remains largely unchanged, and the humanitarian crisis deepens each day.
The Israeli regime unleashed its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement carried out a retaliatory operation against the usurping entity over the Zionists' intensified atrocities against them.
Tel Aviv accepted a Gaza ceasefire deal after two years, following the failure to achieve its declared objectives of eradicating Hamas and freeing all the captives taken in the operation.
The Israeli forces have killed more than 68,200 Palestinians before accepting the US-brokered peace deal.
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