Archive for October 15th, 2023

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15/10/2023

Gaza: Forcing Patients to Flee Hospitals a ‘Death Sentence’ – World Health Organization

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The UN Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA) issued an urgent call on Saturday [] for Israeli Authorities to protect all civilians sheltering in Gaza.

The statement came as the Israeli-imposed deadline for some 1.1 million civilians to leave the northern part of the enclave, ahead of what is expected to be a major advance into Gaza by Israeli ground forces, expired.

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15/10/2023

Urgent Funds Needed to Assist Hundreds of Thousands Affected by Deadly Earthquakes in Afghanistan

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — UN agencies are appealing for urgent funds to assist the hundreds of thousands affected by deadly earthquakes in western Afghanistan.

The earthquakes in western Afghanistan destroyed a vast number of homes.
© WFP | The earthquakes in western Afghanistan destroyed a vast number of homes.

The region was struck by two massive earthquakes on Saturday , followed a series of aftershocks, including a major one on Wednesday that flattened several homes spared by the original quake.

Women and children make up over 90 per cent of the victims, according to UN agencies.

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15/10/2023

Working to Relieve the Trauma of Syrian Earthquake Orphans

Human Wrongs Watch

By Sonia Al Ali

IDILIB, SYRIA, Oct 13 2023 (IPS)* – Seven-year-old Salim al-Bakkar was orphaned in the earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6, 2023.
 
Earthquake orphans are cared for at the Kuramaa Center in the Idlib Governorate, Northern Syria. Credit: Sonia Al Ali/IPS

Earthquake orphans are cared for at the Kuramaa Center in the Idlib Governorate, Northern Syria. Credit: Sonia Al Ali/IPS

Saved by members of the civil defense team who pulled him from the rubble, doctors had to amputate his left leg – which had been crushed in the 7.7 magnitude quake that killed more than 55,000 people and destroyed at least 230,000 buildings. 

Salim, from Jenderes, north of Aleppo, Syria, was pulled from the rubble but, suffering from crush syndrome, had his leg amputated.

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