Speaking of the enclave broken by the war in the middle of the Israeli military push in progress to take total control of Gaza City, Unicef Spokesperson James Elder described a short visit to a hospital where young people suffered or died wherever he looked at.
While we are talking to the surgeon there, she dies on the bed in front of us
A victim of the Al Aqsa hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza, was Aya, six, injured by an air strike. “I really notice not only the injury, but the attention that the bobs in his hair, the care that a parent has given before the air strike,” he said. “While we are talking to the surgeon there, she dies on the bed in front of us. It’s 30 minutes in a hospital. ”
No space to move
In the same hospital, Mr. Elder said he saw three children “all slaughtered by quadcopters” – an attack drone with four propellers – in the midst of continuous reports according to which people continue to be injured while asking for help from controversial non -relief centers led by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
“” It is an area of war, children on the ground, there is a boy who had been shot in GHF who was bleeding on the ground“” with others Wounded by shooting, bursts of shells or burns.
UNICEF spokesperson stressed that 1,000 infants have been killed in the past two years in Gaza since the terrorist attacks led by Hamas in Israel triggered the war. “” We do not know how many others have died of avoidable diseases“, He continued.
With only about 14 of the 36 Gaza hospitals still open and partially functional after almost two years of war, they are often “absolutely filled” by people who need help, said Elder.
Rescued, terrified
“I turn around and there is a little girl, Sham, who has just been drawn from the rubble; So, it is covered with this dust and this smoke with this terrified expression on her face, being held by an aunt or an uncle … Now Sham has no fracture or internal injury, [she] He was not told that his mother and sister were both killed in this attack. »»
By turning to Gaza City, the United Nations veteran stressed that several thousand people remain unable to leave, in the midst of the continuous Israeli evacuation orders who left children “shivering” and watching the sky “to follow the fire” of helicopters and quadcopters.
“” You have children without treasure that push the grandparents around the rubble, the amputated children struggle through the dust, the mothers wear exhausted children-their skin literally bleeds because of the gravity of the rashes“Continued Mr. Elder, before warning of” blind attacks continues in densely populated civil zones despite official declarations “.
Another assistant worker killed
On Thursday, the NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) confirmed the murder in Gaza of its fourteenth medical worker, the occupational therapist Omar Hayek, in an attack that also injured four of his colleagues in Deir Al-Balah.
Until September 13, he had worked in an MSF clinic in Gaza City before finally evacuating in the middle of “incessant attacks and forced displacement of Israeli forces”, maintained the NGO.
“People are afraid and rightly …” If you ask me now, can we do our job? ” I say no, of course, we cannot do our work in the North, “said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, World Health Organization of the United Nations (WHO) Representative in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The level of violence in Gaza is such that nowhere in security, including field hospitals, which offer no protection against wandering bullets, said Christian Cardon of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
“We have had several opportunities for people injured, brought to hospital and during their treatment, injured again because of the wandering bullets arriving at the hospital“, He said, noting another type of this type on Thursday.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
