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🇵🇸 Gaza Israeli Attacks, Blockade Devastating for People with Disabilities | HRW
Those able to evacuate described the dread of having to leave their homes, which had been designed to meet their accessibility and adaptability requirements, as well as their assistive devices, such as wheelchairs, walkers, and hearing aids. They also raised concerns about not having access to essential medication and the impact on their mental health. They and hundreds of thousands of others have been forced into overcrowded emergency shelters; mostly health facilities and schools, lacking sufficient access to water, food, and sanitation.
A general lack of assistive devices in #Gaza such as wheelchairs, prostheses, crutches, and hearing aids, a result primarily of restrictions linked to Israel’s unlawful 16-year closure of Gaza, is also effecting people’s ability to flee. People who have visual, hearing, developmental, or intellectual #disabilities may not hear, know about, or understand what is happening
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01/11/2023
Those able to evacuate described the dread of having to leave their homes, which had been designed to meet their accessibility and adaptability requirements, as well as their assistive devices, such as wheelchairs, walkers, and hearing aids. They also raised concerns about not having access to essential medication and the impact on their mental health. They and hundreds of thousands of others have been forced into overcrowded emergency shelters; mostly health facilities and schools, lacking sufficient access to water, food, and sanitation.
A general lack of assistive devices in #Gaza such as wheelchairs, prostheses, crutches, and hearing aids, a result primarily of restrictions linked to Israel’s unlawful 16-year closure of Gaza, is also effecting people’s ability to flee. People who have visual, hearing, developmental, or intellectual #disabilities may not hear, know about, or understand what is happening
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01/11/2023
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🇵🇸 Disabled Palestinians in Gaza face heightened threat during war
Nowhere in Gaza is safe and everyone living there is bearing the brunt of Israel’s war – from bombs and destruction to the shortage of basic goods.
But for Palestinians with #disabilities, the dangers and difficulties are even more extreme.
Al Jazeera’s Imogen Kimber reports.
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Nowhere in Gaza is safe and everyone living there is bearing the brunt of Israel’s war – from bombs and destruction to the shortage of basic goods.
But for Palestinians with #disabilities, the dangers and difficulties are even more extreme.
Al Jazeera’s Imogen Kimber reports.
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🇵🇸Gaza’s disabled left behind: “All our dreams are gone” | The Real News Network
In #Gaza, everyone is struggling to survive. But for people with #disabilities, that struggle is multiplied to unimaginable degrees. In this TRNN documentary report, we take you inside the refugee tent cities of Khan Yunis and into the lives of Rabab Nawfal and Suha Maqat, both wheelchair users who were champion athletes before Israel’s US-backed genocidal war on Gaza.
Editor’s Note: This #documentary report was filmed in Gaza City three weeks before the ceasefire in Gaza was shakily implemented beginning on October 10, 2025. Since the “ceasefire” began, Israeli forces have killed over 1,300 Palestinians, including 301 children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Credits:
Producers: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
Videographers: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi
Video Editor: Leo Erhardt
#Palestine #Genocide #Testimonies
In #Gaza, everyone is struggling to survive. But for people with #disabilities, that struggle is multiplied to unimaginable degrees. In this TRNN documentary report, we take you inside the refugee tent cities of Khan Yunis and into the lives of Rabab Nawfal and Suha Maqat, both wheelchair users who were champion athletes before Israel’s US-backed genocidal war on Gaza.
Editor’s Note: This #documentary report was filmed in Gaza City three weeks before the ceasefire in Gaza was shakily implemented beginning on October 10, 2025. Since the “ceasefire” began, Israeli forces have killed over 1,300 Palestinians, including 301 children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Credits:
Producers: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
Videographers: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi
Video Editor: Leo Erhardt
#Palestine #Genocide #Testimonies