No medication or care needed: Cancer patients in Gaza are at risk of death in Israel's war.
2,000 cancer patients in Gaza live in devastating health conditions without adequate treatment and care. GAZA STRIP - Saida Barbak sits in a wheelchair at the United Nations-run school in Khan Younis, where she now lives, looking around the crowded classrooms. She took a deep breath. The 62-year-old bone cancer patient's medication ran out a few days ago. She was treated at al-Maqassed Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem, and on October 5, two days before the start of the war, a complicated but successful operation was performed and she returned to the Gaza Strip. "I was scheduled to come back in two weeks for a checkup," she says. "We didn't expect the danger to be this great." The United Nations-run school, where 725,000 displaced Palestinians have sought shelter from relentless Israeli shelling for more than a month, is far from ideal for housing sick patients. A lack of electricity, clean running water, food and bedding, and inadequate sanitation means