Gaza’s other dead: Destruction of health services and lack of aid kill despite ceasefire
Israel’s new total blockade of supplies threatens to increase the number of indirect victims of the war, who do not figure on the official list of more than 48,000 dead
The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza came too late for Sami Mushtaha. The 76-year-old man had survived a missile that killed three of his grandchildren in his home in the Gazan capital in November 2023. Seriously injured, both of his legs had to be amputated, but the death he escaped in the midst of the war came to him on January 22, three days after the truce agreement came into effect. The old man had suffered a heart attack days earlier; it was not fatal, but in the practically destroyed Al Shifa hospital they were unable to perform the urgent operation that might have saved his life, explains his daughter-in-law from Granada, Spain, who only introduces herself by her first name, Malak.
