Around 40,500 children have been affected by "war-related" injuries during the nearly two-year-long war and approximately half of them have been left with permanent disabilities, according to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Reports describe how people with disabilities are forced to flee in unsafe and undignified ways, such as crawling through sand or mud without assistance, the committee states in a statement.
The lack of food and other emergency aid also affects people with disabilities particularly hard. Not least, the decision to centralize distribution to a few distribution points makes it significantly more difficult for people who cannot see, hear or move freely on their own.
Many are left without food, clean water and sanitation and are forced to rely on others for their survival, the report authors write.
It is further stated that 83 percent of people with disabilities in Gaza have lost their physical aids such as wheelchairs, crutches and prostheses.
