MSF: 70% of burn victims in Gaza are children – War on Gaza Day 568
Doctors Without Borders: 70% of burn victims in Gaza are children
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that “a burn injury is more than just a wound – it is a prolonged sentence of suffering, and this is even more so in Gaza, Palestine,” following over 19 months of attacks by the Israeli forces, causing the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system.
The organization stated, “As the Israeli authorities maintain the siege on Gaza, blocking access to basic aid, medical and life-saving supplies, many patients are left to endure excruciating pain with limited or no relief.”
It added, “since the Israeli forces resumed hostilities on 18 March, MSF teams have seen an increase in the number of patients with burn injuries – most of them children.”
“Since May 2024, MSF teams working in Nasser hospital have provided over 1,000 surgical operations to burn patients, 70 per cent of which have been children, most under the age of five,” stated MSF, adding that the causes of the burns ranged from bomb blasts to boiling water or fuel used for cooking or heating in makeshift shelters.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the escalating mass killings and systematic extermination of families as part of Israel’s ongoing military offensive against the Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. This comes while famine spreads in Gaza within a systematic crime of genocide Israel has been committing in the Gaza Strip for 18 months.
PCHR’s field researchers have monitored a surge in the Israeli Occupying Forces’ (IOF) systematic extermination of Palestinian families through the relentless bombardment of houses, tents and shelters, where they had sought refuge, without a prior warning. IOF have also used highly destructive explosive weapons that erased more entire families from the civil registry.
According to our field documentation, at dawn on Saturday, 26 April 2025, Israeli warplanes bombed al-Khour Family house in al-Sabrah neighborhood in Gaza City, killing ten and wounding others. Meanwhile, many are still trapped under the rubble of the 3-storey house.
At around 01:50 on Friday, 25 April 2025, IOF used an explosive drone to target a tent for displaced Abu T’eimah family behind al-Aqsa University, western Khan Younis. As a result, five were killed and they were a couple and their 3 children identified as: Ibrahim Khalil Mousa Abu T’eimah (33), his pregnant wife Hanadi Sha’aban Abu T’eimah /Abu Sabet (29), and their children Samira (9), ‘Aazem (6), and Ra’afat (4). The family was erased from the civil registry (continue reading here).
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