Cancer rates in Gaza increased after Israeli wars
Israeli occupation has always used internationally-banned weapons with no action taken by the so-called free world
“I
fear the thinking in ‘Israel’ is that it is in its interests to create
as much mutilation as possible to terrorise the civilian population in
the hope they will turn against Hamas,” said David Halpin, a retired
British surgeon and trauma specialist
Days
of Palestine, Gaza Strip –Cancer rate has sharply increased in the Gaza
Strip in wake of the three Israeli wars against the coastal enclave,
Palestinian ministry of health revealed on Thursday.
A
recent report prepared and published by the ministry of health in Gaza
revealed a harp increased in the number of registered cases of cancer
along the Strip.
The report showed that the rate of cancer cases increased to 73.1 per 100,000 inhabitants in the war-torn enclave.
According
to the director of the information department in the ministry physician
Atef Mos’ad, the findings of the report were discussed in a workshop
organised by the ministry to raise awareness among its staff about this
diseases and its new challenges.
Khaled
Thabet, director of the tumours department at Al-Shifa Hospital,
stressed that the increasing number of cancer cases is a result of the
pollution caused by the use of internationally-prohibited weapons by the
Israeli occupation.
The
participants in workshop called for the establishment of a cancer
treatment centre for patients to receive comprehensive therapeutic
services instead of having medical treatment in different places or
abroad.
Most
of cancer patients are forced to travel abroad for proper treatment
because of the lack of the needed equipment due to the eight-year-old
Israeli blockade on Gaza.
Banned weapons
Burns caused by white phosphorus used by Israeli occupation in Gaza.
During
its wars, Israeli occupation fired shells containing white phosphorus,
which causes horrific burns when it comes into contact with skin. Under
international law, phosphorus is allowed as a smokescreen to protect
soldiers but treated as a chemical weapon when used against civilians.
“We
have seen Gaza used as a laboratory for testing what I call weapons
from hell,” said David Halpin, a retired British surgeon and trauma
specialist, who has visited Gaza on several occasions to investigate
unusual injuries suffered by Gazans.
“I
fear the thinking in ‘Israel’ is that it is in its interests to create
as much mutilation as possible to terrorise the civilian population in
the hope they will turn against Hamas.”
Gaza’s
doctors, including one of the few foreigners there, Mads Gilbert, a
Norwegian specialist in emergency medicine working at Al-Shifa Hospital
in Gaza City, reported that many of the injuries they saw were
consistent with the use of DIME.
Wounds
from the weapon are said to be distinctive. Those exposed to the blast
have severed or melted limbs, or internal ruptures, especially to soft
tissue such as the abdomen, that often lead to death.
(Source / 19.03.2015)
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