(30 Jul 2024)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT INCLUDES IMAGES OF CHILDREN IN DISTRESS++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip – 29 July 2024
1. Sick child, Sham al-Hessi, crying as her mother wipes her face, which is covered with red spots
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Manar al-Hessi, mother of Sham al-Hessi, displaced from Shati refugee camp: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT; PARTLY COVERED WITH SHOT 3++
"Suddenly, a small pimple appeared on her head. I said it was normal because of the heat and high temperature, it affects the child’s skin. The next day it began to spread over her body and her face was filled with pimples. It was terrifying."
3. Various of Sham’s face and chest covered with red spots
4. Various of Adel Abu Obeid showing spots and red marks covering his son Muhammad’s body
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adel Abu Obeid, from Gaza, Shati refugee camp: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
"I am not only sad for my son, I am sad for all our children. All those in the tents are the same, not just my son, all the children are the same. They all get sick, this is because of the polluted water."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 25 July 2024
6. Various of woman showing the body of her son covered with spots ++OVERLAYS SHOT 7++
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Nassim Basala, dermatologist in Nasser hospital:
"We receive around 300 to 500 skin disease cases every day at the dermatology clinic at Nasser Hospital, depending on the day."
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Nassim Basala, dermatologist in Nasser hospital: ++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 9++
"The increasing rate of displacement, the higher density of people in the tents, the high temperatures, the lack of clean water and use of wastewater… Most of the water across the governorates currently is all wastewater. All this leads to the spread of diseases and will even make skin diseases more and more prevalent in the coming days."
9. Various of white and red spots on child’s leg
STORYLINE:
A steady stream of miserable children and worried parents flowed into the dermatology office at Nasser Hospital in central Gaza.
A toddler with a blue hair bow sobbed as her mother shows how the red and white spots covering her face have spread to her neck and chest.
Another woman lifted her little boy’s clothes to reveal the rashes on his back, butt, thighs and stomach.
On his wrists, he had open sores from scratching.
A father stood his daughter on the desk so the doctor could examine the lesions on her calves.
Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say.
The cause, parents say, is the appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes along with the summer heat and the collapse of sanitation that has left pools of open sewage amid 10 months of Israel’s bombardment and offensives in the territory.
Doctors are wrestling with more than 103,000 cases of lice and scabies and 65,000 cases of skin rashes, according to the World Health Organization.
In Gaza’s population of some 2.3 million, more than 1 million cases of acute respiratory infections have been recorded since the war began, along with more than half a million of acute diarrhea and more than 100,000 cases of jaundice, according to the United Nations Development Program.
Cleanliness is impossible in the ramshackle tents, basically wood frames hung with blankets or plastic sheets, crammed side by side over wide stretches, Palestinians say.
"No detergents, no soap, no toilets," said Adel Abu Obeid, who lives in the Shati refugee camp in Deir al-Balah.
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