Despite battling most cancers, Palestinian photojournalist Yousef Abu Saeed persists in documenting Israeli crimes in Gaza.
“I didn’t get my chemotherapy from the third day of the war since Oct. 7,” Abu Saeed informed Anadolu Agency (AA).
“I discovered the cancer just one month before the outbreak of the war and only received two doses of the treatment and the results were positive,” he stated.
He added that the concentrating on on Oct. 31 of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, the one hospital for most cancers therapy within the Gaza Strip, prevented most cancers sufferers from receiving medical therapy.
In a earlier assertion, the hospital’s director, Subhi Skaik, stated that because it went out of service, 10,000 most cancers sufferers have been residing in inhumane circumstances amid a scarcity of medicines and therapy.
“The suffering of the war overwhelms the suffering of the cancer patients, as there is no space to think of the illness,” stated Abu Saeed.
He highlighted that the dearth of a specialised hospital for most cancers sufferers deprives them of correct therapy and aggravates their well being state of affairs.
Abu Saeed additionally famous that displacement impacts, particularly, most cancers sufferers and people with low immunity, as persons are crowded within the metropolis of Rafah within the southern Gaza Strip amid a scarcity of correct well being circumstances.
The variety of displaced Palestinians in Rafah has risen to 1.3 million, whereas its inhabitants earlier than Oct. 7 was no more than 300,000.
The Israeli military has been waging a damaging struggle on Gaza since Oct. 7 final yr, leading to 24,620 deaths and 61,830 accidents and inflicting the displacement of greater than 85% of the Gaza Strip’s inhabitants, in response to Palestinian authorities and the United Nations.
Source: www.dailysabah.com