Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip- Twice a week, Mohammed Atiyar jumps on the wheel -stained roads in the wheelchair Gaza so that he can see the machine that is saving him.
The 54 -year -old young man traveled from a temporary shelter west of Gaza City to Shifa Hospital north of the city. There, he took dialysis for kidney failure about 15 years ago. However, treatment limited by the destruction of war and the lack of supply is not enough to remove all waste products from its blood.
“It just brought you back from death,” said the father of six people.
Many others like him did not make it. They are some calm deaths from the war, no explosions, no debris. However, the toll is interesting: According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 5% of patients representing about 5% of the patients died during the 6 -month conflict due to lack of proper treatment.
Three of them include those who died from the beginning of March, when Israel removed 2 million Palestinians from all imports, including food, treatment and fuel. Israeli officials say that Israel is pressuring Hamas to release more hostages after their ceasefire ends.
The Israeli military agency, which is in charge of coordinating assistance, has refused to comment on the current blockade. It has been said in the past that all treatment assistance is approved for entry when the crossings are open and since the start of the war, about 45,400 tons of treatment equipment has entered Gaza.
Atiya said that she needs at least three dialysis sessions at least four hours a week. Now, his two sessions lasted a maximum of two or three hours.
The blockade of Israel, and its numerous evacuation orders across most parts of the region, challenged its ability to reach regular care.
In the first weeks of the war, he has been displaced at least six times since he fled his home near the northern city of Bit Hanowon. He was first in Rafaha in the south, then the central city of Deir al-Balah. After the latest ceasefire in January, he returned to another school in West Gaza.
Until recently, Atia went to the hospital for dialysis. However, he says that limited treatment, and prices should be raised for mineral water, have left it in a wheelchair.
His family gave him a wheel through a Gaza that many people have difficulty recognizing. Most of the region was destroyed.
“No transportation. The roads were damaged,” said Atiya. “Life is hard and expensive.”
He said that he now has hallucinations due to high levels of toxins in his blood.
Referring to Israel and its soldiers, he said, “The occupation does not worry about the misery or the sick.
Six of the seven dialysis centers in Gaza were destroyed during the war, the World Health Organization said earlier this year, the health ministry said. Prior to the war, the region had 182 dialysis machines and now there are 102. Of these, seventy is in northern Gaza, where thousands of people rushed home during a two -month ceasefire.
“The deficiencies of these tools increase by zero stock level of kidney drugs,” said WHO.
Israel has raided the hospital on several occasions during the war, accusing Hamas use them for military purposes. Hospital staff denies the allegations and say that the campaigns have surrounded the health care system in the region because of the fight against widespread casualties from the war.
The Health Ministry says that more than 5 Palestinians, most women and children, were killed in Israel’s aggression, not how many civilians or fighters were. Hamas -led militants killed about 1,220 people, killed most civilians, and OCT abducted 20 people in October 2021, which started the war.
Dr. Ghazi al-Yazigi, head of the Department of Nephrology and Dialysis at Shifa Hospital, said at least 17 patients died in Gaza during the war due to lack of proper treatment.
It came from 1,100 patients after the war began.
Like Atiya, hundreds of dialysis patients across Gaza are now forced to settle for less and short sessions every week.
Al-Yazigi said, “It leads to the complexity of poison levels and the complexity of the fluid freezing … which may be the cause of death,” said al-Yazigi.
After the kidney failure during the war in Gaza City Mohammad Kamel and the new dialysis patient at the hospital after starting treatment this year.
In these days, “I do not feel any improvement after each session,” he said during his weekly visit.
The father of the six children said that he did not have access to filtered water to drink anymore, even the basic running water is very low. Israel stopped power supply in Gaza last month, affecting a prominent plant that produces drinking water for some parts of the dry region.
Kamel said he had missed many dialysis sessions. Last year, while taking refuge in Central Gaza, he missed a one of the Israeli bombing in the region. His condition deteriorated and the next day he was taken to Al-Aqsa Shaheed Hospital in the ambulance.
Kamel said, “Dispute has the consequences.” “I’m tired.”
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Maggie reported from Cairo. The Associated Press Writer contributed to who was contributed.
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