Between the people who will need to leave Gaza to get medical care due to a lack of functioning hospitals to people who will be homeless as entire neighbourhoods are destroyed, it's hard to fathom the significant toll that will still be impactful for years to come. Never mind the trauma children will continue to have or even Palestinians who can never do what they love again due to becoming disabled... I just cannot stop thinking about it.
Even if Israel stopped their assault right this very second and withdrew all their troops and turned the electricity back on and opened the borders into gaza, letting in unfettered aid, the unfathomably huge crisis currently in progress there would be ongoing.
So many roads are destroyed that aid convoys would struggle to get very far into the Strip, even once they made it past the tens of thousands close to the edges who are currently starving to death.
Many of the hospitals and medical centres have been either destroyed or severely damaged. Even without the damage to the buildings and equipment, they would be short-staffed, thanks to Israel's relentless targetting of medical staff. The handful of hospitals that would theoretically be operational if the power was turned back on would not be nearly enough to cater to the (at minimum) 61,500 people who have been injured.
And as OP said, where do the people go? Two thirds of the buildings in northern Gaza have been completely destroyed. A quarter of all buildings in the south. Gaza was already one of the highest density cities in the world before this, and now they have over 1.2 million people who have to fit into VASTLY fewer houses.
The temperature overnight in Gaza at the moment is dropping down into single digits. What keeps all those houseless people warm at night? A tent? There are currently 1.8 million homeless people in Gaza. Where do they all go for shelter?
There are now, as a direct result of Israels 100+ days of bombing, over 25,000 orphans in Gaza. Many haven't just lost their parents, but their whole families. The assault in Gaza has necessitated the creation of a new acronym: WCNSF. Wounded child, no surviving family. Who looks after them? Who makes sure they're cared for, fed, housed, kept warm, loved? 25,000 orphans in the span of 100 days. That's unspeakably fucked up.
And how much psychological damage has been done to every single citizen there? How many horrific scenes have they borne witness to; how many loved ones have they lost; how many terrors have they endured? How do they even begin to recover from that?
The amount of damage Israel has done is unfathomable. And Israel don't give a fuck. Israel wants to create MORE damage than they already have. Create more wounded, more orphans. Destroy more homes, starve more people. The damage they've done will already take decades to recover from, and Israel wants to keep going. Wants to keep destroying, killing, maiming, torturing.
Their evil is unparalleled. The people of Gaza and Palestine are on my mind every single day. Do not stop thinking abut them; do not stop talking about them. And when all of this is over, do not stop helping them in whatever way you can.
