PCHR issues urgent appeal to provide blood units for thalassemia patients in Gaza

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) issued an urgent appeal to the international community and relevant UN institutions, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), to put pressure the Israeli occupation authorities to allow access to blood units for thalassemia patients in the besieged northern Gaza Strip. This appeal was issued after receiving multiple requests from patients who were unable to obtain blood units due to the inability of residents in the northern Gaza Strip to donate to them, as a natural result of their suffering from severe malnutrition caused by Israeli practices and violations aimed at partially or completely destroying the Gaza Strip population in the context of an ongoing genocide, the PCHR said in a statement on Saturday. The PCHR expressed its serious concern for the lives of 61 thalassemia patients, including 35 females, in hospitals in Gaza City and its north, who face great difficulties in obtaining blood units with the required specifications for their condition, as m ost of the population suffers from catastrophic hunger classified within the fifth stage of the global Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). The PCHR declared that it is joining these patients in calling for the necessity of bringing in the necessary number of fresh blood units from outside the Gaza Strip, which the occupying forces have not allowed until this moment, leaving patients in Gaza City and North Gaza exposed to life-threatening health complications, in addition to their great suffering from the collapse of the health system and its inability to provide the requirements for adequate treatment for them. Source: Jordan News Agency