'It's a horrible picture': Gaza faces new threat from antibiotic-resistant disease

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/12/gaza-antibiotic-resistant-disease

"Gaza is facing a new threat as diseases resistant to antibiotics spread across the devastated territory, research has revealed.

Medical supplies are desperately scarce and tens of thousands of people have been injured in the 22-month war, while many others have been weakened by malnutrition, so the high levels of drug-resistant bacteria will mean longer and more serious illnesses, a more rapid transmission of infectious diseases and more deaths, experts said.

The findings published on Tuesday, in a peer-reviewed research comment in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, are the first since the conflict began in October 2023 to suggest a prevalence of multi-drug-resistant bacteria in Gaza.

“This will mean longer and more serious illnesses and a high risk of transmission to others. It means an increased risk of death from really common infections. It means more amputations. It’s a horrible picture,” said Krystel Moussally, epidemiology adviser to Médecins Sans Frontières and a co-author of studies on drug-resistant bacteria in Gaza and other conflict zones in the Middle East, who was not involved in the research..."

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1. To anyone still denying it's a Genocide...

Consider that Israel has been warned repeatedly, over nearly two years, that the lack of sanitation, proper nutrition, shelter and medical care including infectious and bacterial disease control would lead to exactly this scenario. Israel knew and not only did nothing to mitigate but continually and knowingly created even worse conditions.

This part of the genocide definition certainly fits:

"Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part".

Seems to me there is no end to the cruelty genocide deniers and Netanyahu et al are willing to see inflicted for the sake of Israel's "security". No end to Palestinian suffering that is not deemed "worth it".

It's mind-blowingly savage. This is "defending Western civilization"? Ugh.

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2. One can only look away for so long before they come to the conclusion that this is not about Israel's security ...

and now the attack on the citizens of Gaza City.