{"id":310532,"date":"2025-08-22T14:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=310532"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:41:42","slug":"video-gaza-medical-crisis-united-nations-22aug25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/video-gaza-medical-crisis-united-nations-22aug25\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Gaza Medical Crisis &#8211; Homemade prosthetics in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>22 August 2025<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, including a record number of children, are living with amputations amid severe shortages of medical care and supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza has the world&#8217;s largest population of child amputees, many facing dire health conditions and limited access to treatment or rehabilitation. Amputations are often performed as life-saving measures due to the lack of medical resources.<\/p>\n<p>Ongoing evacuation orders in parts of Gaza City, combined with escalating violence, have forced residents into increasingly small areas, adding immense pressure on hospitals. Al-Shifa Hospital is operating at nearly 300 percent capacity, with a constant influx of complex trauma injuries.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Watch the Video<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Gaza Medical Crisis | United Nations\" width=\"1320\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ubg7rCQ6xdI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 22 August 2025 Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, including a record number of children, are living with amputations amid severe shortages of medical care and supplies. Gaza has the world&#8217;s largest population of child amputees, many facing dire health conditions and limited access to treatment or rehabilitation. Amputations are often performed as life-saving measures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/video-gaza-medical-crisis-united-nations-22aug25\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2377,2805],"document-source":[6169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,6636,2005,2533,1741],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-310532","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-multimedia","document-category-video","document-source-united-nations-department-of-global-communications","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-disabilities","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/310532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/310532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310535,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/310532\/revisions\/310535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=310532"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=310532"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=310532"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=310532"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=310532"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=310532"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=310532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}