A Palestinian boy shows a bag of seeds and nuts he collected from the sand along the verge of a road near in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on November 9, 2025. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP)
Ramallah: The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that Gaza Strip records the highest rate of limb amputations among children per capita in the world.
In a statement, the ministry said that over 5,000 children in Gaza undergone limb amputations during the Israeli occupation aggression on the territory, according to a report issued by the United Nations World Health Organization.
The statement added that at least one-quarter of the injured will require medium- to long-term rehabilitative care, highlighting that Gaza now holds the world’s highest per-capita rate of pediatric amputations, reflecting the severe health and humanitarian crisis in the Strip.
It noted a critical shortage of specialists and equipment, with only eight prosthetics experts remaining in Gaza, working with limited capacity, alongside the destruction or suspension of over two-thirds of rehabilitation facilities before the war.
The Ministry of Health launched a comprehensive national initiative to rebuild and develop rehabilitation services in Gaza, including establishing a dedicated fund for amputee rehabilitation and reconstructing the rehabilitation system toward sustainable recovery.
This initiative follows a recent report highlighting an unprecedented collapse of rehabilitation services in the Strip, amid the widespread destruction of health infrastructure and an unprecedented rise in casualties caused by Israeli occupation aggression, with the number of injured exceeding 170,000 as of September 2025.
