Questão 18 - FIP-Moc 2024/2

Part II - Diseases spread in Gaza amid health system collapse, Israeli strikes

 

Ahmed al-Farra, the head of the paediatric ward at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, said this week that his ward was overrun with children suffering extreme dehydration, causing kidney failure in some cases, while severe diarrhoea was four times higher than normal.

He said he was aware of 15 to 30 cases of hepatitis A in Khan Younis in the past two weeks: “The incubation period of the virus is three weeks to a month, so after a month there will be an explosion in the number of cases of hepatitis A”. In its latest report on conditions in Gaza, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the WHO has reported cases of meningitis, chickenpox, jaundice, and upper respiratory tract infections (…).

Since the truce between Israel and Hamas collapsed on December 1, hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to shelter in abandoned buildings, schools, and tents. Many more are sleeping in the open with little access to toilets or water to bathe, aid workers said. (…)

Disponível em: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/12/15/photos-amid-deadly-israeli-strikes-people-in-gaza-face-a-storm-of-diseases-acesso em março de 2024.

As formas verbais em destaque no trecho: “(...) hundreds of thousands of people (1) have been forced to shelter in abandoned buildings, schools, and tents. Many more (2) are sleeping in the open with little access to toilets or water to bathe (...)” correspondem respectivamente ao fato de que centenas de milhares da população local: