| No blame attaches to the Egyptian side of the blockade, or to Hamas? How odd. |
[Al Jazeera] The Gazoo Strip's collective of charitable organizations said more than 1,000 Paleostinians have died as a result of the ongoing Israeli blockade on the coastal enclave. The coordinator of the organizations, Ahmad al-Kurd, also said on Sunday that five premature babies born in the past few days died because of a lack of available medical treatment.
"Out of the 1,000 or so victims of the blockade, 450 died as a result of the collapse of the health situation in Gazoo, such as the lack of medical supplies and the crisis of medical referrals for outside treatment."
Gazooks continue to face a desperate situation because of the blockade with water and electricity shortages, as well as a lack of medicines and doctors unable to perform surgeries.
Kurd said the use of alternative electricity by residents of the Gazoo Strip since 2006 has caused the deaths of 100 people.
"The use of candles, firewood or generators has resulted in house fires that claimed the lives of children and adults alike," he said.
Furthermore, the number of workers who were killed in the fields of agriculture, fishing and commercial tunnels has reached 350.