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Decades of underfunding, blockade have weakened Gaza's health system − the siege has pushed it into abject crisis

  • Written by Yara M. Asi, Assistant Professor of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida
Decades of underfunding, blockade have weakened Gaza's health system − the siege has pushed it into abject crisisA health service on its knees.Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images

For the wounded, injured and sick in Gaza, there is seemingly no escape. On Oct. 17, 2023, news broke that at least 500 patients, staff and people seeking shelter from Israeli bombs had been killed in an explosion at a hospital, according to health authorities in the Hamas-run...

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