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‘Death in all types and forms’ in northern Gaza
Mohammed Obeid, an orthopaedic surgeon with Doctors Without Borders, has given a chilling account of the disastrous situation in and around the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
Here is what he said:
“There is death in all types and forms in Kamal Adwan Hospital and north Gaza. The bombardment does not stop. The artillery does not stop. The planes do not stop. There is heavy shelling, and the hospital is targeted too. It just looks like a movie; it does not seem real.
“About five days ago, my house was hit. They completely blew up the roof and water tanks, but we were on the ground floor and only one person got injured, thank God. We left a few times, moving to different areas, my family and neighbours were terrified. I sheltered in Kamal Adwan Hospital with my wife and children, and I am now working here, where I can treat numerous patients.
“There are no words to describe the situation in Kamal Adwan Hospital. It is disastrous. The hospital is completely overwhelmed. There are injured people everywhere, outside and inside the hospital, and we do not have medical and surgical equipment to treat them.
“Ambulances cannot move. We cannot reach the bodies of the people killed and cannot save the injured ones who lie in the streets. Many of them died before reaching the hospital, and others died inside the hospital as we could not treat their wounds.
“We have 30 people dead inside the hospital, and around 130 injured patients who need urgent medical care. Medical staff are exhausted, and many are injured as well. We feel hopeless. I just don’t have words.
“We call on all the countries in the world to consider north Gaza, and to lift the blockade that has led to the death of so many people.”
Seeing amputees in Gaza a ‘normal’ occurrence
Gaza’s Health Ministry on Tuesday announced another grim milestone – more than 100,000 people have now been injured in Israel’s more than yearlong war on Gaza.
Tala Herzallah, 22, a displaced Palestinian living in the al-Mawasi area in southern Gaza, said it was now common to see people with severe injuries, such as missing limbs. “Like before, it was something strange and unusual to see someone without a hand or leg. Now it is totally normal,” Herzallah told Al Jazeera.
Herzallah added that it is not only the wounded who are suffering but also those suffering from illness and diseases without access to medical care.
In its latest daily update, the Health Ministry at least 42,718 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the coastal enclave, with the actual death toll believed to be much higher.
Gaza children’s clothes fall to pieces as they flee Israeli attacks
In a displacement camp, a woman stands outside a tent, hanging laundry on a line. Rawan Badr’s face is tired as she carefully places each piece of clothing.
A movement makes her look up, it’s her six-year-old daughter, Massa. Massa is a cheerful little girl, busying herself with play and making an energetic commentary on everything.
Her mother says she also loved dressing up before the war, the bigger and more colourful the dresses, the happier she was showing them off to her friends.
The state of the clothing on Badr’s clothesline is wretched – faded, stretched, patched and frayed pants and shirts, lying limply beside each other.
