«Whoever stays until the end will tell the story. We did what we could. Remember us.” They are words in English that appeared on the board of a hospital in Gaza where the doctors are – explains Doctors Without Borders, who posted the photo “In the last 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza have been bombed relentlessly. “Our employees in Al Shifa saw people being shot when they tried to escape from the hospital,” the association emphasized and called for a ceasefire. The text bears a signature and a date that is now far away: October 20, 2023, as the intervention in the Gaza Strip is already underway.
“Whoever stays until the end will tell the story. We did what we could. Remember us”
Words on a hospital board #Gaza where doctors are so overwhelmed by the number of patients that it is impossible to keep track of all the operations in a week pic.twitter.com/71T8jiCwtc— MediciSenzaFrontiere (@MSF_ITALIA) November 11, 2023
“Patients in the intensive care unit start to die”
A bitter surrender as the health situation on the Strip collapses. First of all, al-Shifa, the most important in the area, the center of fighting from day to day. Today two newborns died in intensive care due to constant power outages. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, spoke by telephone to The Associated Press as gunfire and explosions could be heard in the background. “There is no electricity. Medical equipment is at a standstill. “Patients, especially those in intensive care, started dying,” he said. According to Israel, several hospitals in Gaza “need to be evacuated so that the army can face Hamas, which has turned them into fortified positions.” “For weeks – said a spokesman for the Israeli army – we have been trying to evacuate the hospitals, which have become very dangerous places.” The spokesman cited the Rantisi hospital as an example and explained that the army had three consecutive days before I resorted to “phone calls and leaflets” during the evacuation.
The UN condemnation
Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, said today that “hospitals must be places of greater security, not places of war.” He added: “There can be no justification for acts of war in health facilities when they are left without power, food or water and when patients and civilians are fired upon as they try to escape.” This is unconscionable, reprehensible and must stop. Hospitals must be places of greater safety and those who need them must be confident that they are places of refuge and not places of war.”
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