Gaza before October 7:
1- Up to an 80% unemployment rate
2- Over 80% total reliance on aid
3- Almost a million people lived across 8 refugee camps
4- At least 40,000 people resided in dilapidated shelters
5- 5360 Palestinians killed and 115,000 wounded from Jan 2008 to Sep 2023.
6- 30% of applications for permits by critical patients in Gaza were turned down by Israel every month leading to dozens, sometimes hundreds, of deaths.
7- Upwards of two-thirds of a yearly 1000 recorded successful applicants for international universities from Gaza were denied travel.
Imagine a little girl waking up every day with no mother, no father, no family to hold her, and not even a complete body to support her
This is Malak She lost her family and part of her body in an Israeli bombardment, and now she faces life alone, in a wheelchair and on crutches
This is genocide, ladies and gentlemen