Civilian injuries in Gaza similar to those of soldiers in war zones, study finds | Gaza
Civilians in Gaza continued their injuries on a species and scale of generally seen among the professional soldiers involved in intensive war operations.
A study published in the British Medical Journal (UNJ) found that it was more common among civilians in Gaza than in recent clashes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Wounded civilians in Gaza are experiencing a wound pattern that you will wait in a intense war with military professionals. Distribution and nature [of injuries] Bilal Irfan, one of the writers of the study at the University of Michigan, is almost the same or worse.
. Referee ResearchThe first example of its species drew data provided by dozens of international medical experts working in Gaza between August 2024 and February 2025 in a conflict.
Irfan said most data did not include fatal injury. “This is data for patients who go to the hospital and survived.
The war was triggered by attacks on October 7, 2023 that militants killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians and had 251 hostages in Gaza, where approximately 20 of them were alive.
The next Israeli military campaign killed more than 65,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians and injured more than 160,000, and in many cases ruined most of the population.
The new study will increase the pressure on Israel, which is confronted with the deepening insulation in the behavior of the war in Gaza. In general, the study has been reported in the study associated with approximately 24,000 trauma, and 18% of them are burn. About two -thirds of the injuries came from the explosions.
The authors were particularly widespread and violent, especially among children. More than one -tenth of the burning injuries were fourth degree, that is, they penetrated all the tissue layers of the bone.
The study said that the scope of victims of traumatic injury reflects the effect of random air and heavy explosive bombardment in civilian regions ”.
Similar to the reports from the Syrian Civil War, feverish weapons injuries that make up about 30% of war -related trauma civilians They often sacrificed ten years of violence. He was hit on his head just below 10% of febrile patients.
78 experts from the UK, the United States, Canada and the EU came from 22 NGOs and included experts for various disciplines. Irfan said that they were interviewed or given data within three months after being deployed in Gaza. The injury patterns in Gaza were later compared with the work of US war veterans who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Dr Victoria Rose, a consultant plastic surgeon in the St Thomas Hospital in London and King’s College Hospital, said the authors of the magazine article and the magazine articles should çalıştır playing alarm of government halls and humanitarian community.
Israeli military officials insist that they act in international law, but they admit that there is “tension üzerinde between the protection of civilians and the“ fast -moving military operation demands ”.
They said: uz We are fighting a very different war from any previous conflict where everyone fought anywhere in the world… There are rules of strict participation, but the changing thing is the policy designed for the small wars we want to deterd. [enemies] … We are now fighting in Gaza to ensure that Hamas does not rule Gaza. “
The data collected by the Independent Violence Monitoring Organization argues that 15 out of 16 Palestinians of the Israeli army may be civilian in March. Last month, Guardian, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) internal data, October 2023 and May this year, the war eruption of 83% of the civilian death fee announced.
Israel imposed strict restrictions on the materials entering Gaza during the war. Last month, UN -backed food safety experts confirmed the famines in and around the city of Gaza.
Medical officials who contributed to the new study found that malnutrition further worse the patient results, otherwise there was a delayed wound healing and preventive deaths from curable conditions ”.
Several hospitals and clinics in the Central and Southern Gaza say that the wounded and sick patients who escaped from a new Israeli attack in the north of the ruined region are drowned by the “tsunami ..
Donald Trump said he thought an agreement was close to end the war in Gaza on Thursday. “I need to meet with Israel,” he said at the White House. “I think we can handle this. I hope we can do it. Many people are dying, but we want hostages back.”
