2023-10-18 00:23:52
“More than 3,000 people were displaced from their homes to the hospital to escape death in Gaza. They slept in its outer courtyard and covered the sky, believing that they were safe, but what they had expected happened.” Words in which the Director of Ambulance and Emergency at the Palestinian Red Crescent, Muhammad Abu Musabih, described What happened to the Palestinians in the Baptist Hospital, which was subjected to a strike.
Abu Musabah said: “In an instant, the scene changed after a specific shell, not a missile, fell, killing and wounding hundreds, in a massacre that no mind can imagine.”
He continued, describing the horrific scenes to the Al-Hurra website: “Mothers were preparing food for their children, and then they were searching for them in the middle of the fire and among the charred corpses and scattered body parts. Those who were playing while waiting for dinner were killed while they were hungry.”
For her part, the director of the Baptist Hospital, Suhaila Tarazi, in contact with the Al-Hurra website, summarized the catastrophe by saying: “It is a massacre against children.”
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / People gather around bodies of Palestinians killed in a strike on the Ahli Arab hospital in central Gaza after they were transported to Al-Shifa hospital, on October 17, 2023. – A strike on a hospital compound in the…
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said on Tuesday that “at least 500 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Ahli Arab Hospital,” according to what was reported by Archyde.com, while the Palestinian Wafa Agency reported that “planes launched a raid on the hospital during The presence of thousands of displaced citizens who took refuge there after their homes were destroyed.”
The Israeli army denied responsibility for the attack on the hospital in Gaza, saying that “military intelligence information indicates that it was subjected to a failed missile attack launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in the Strip.”
But a spokesman for Islamic Jihad denied Israel’s accusation that the movement was responsible for the hospital strike.
Double pain
“Ambulances and citizens rushed to transport the injured after the bombing of Al-Baptist Hospital to Al-Shifa Hospital, in their civilian vehicles, motorcycles, and even vehicles,” says Abu Musabeh.
He continued: “In the courtyards and corridors of Al-Shifa Hospital, operations are performed on the wounded, without anesthesia and sterilization and with an incomplete medical staff. To this extent the lack of capabilities in Gaza’s hospitals has reached, as the huge numbers of wounded exceed the capacity of the largest hospitals in the world.”
According to the Director of Ambulance and Emergency at the Palestinian Red Crescent, “Some members of the medical staff at Al-Baptist Hospital, which we thought was protected under the Red Crescent emblem by humanitarian and international norms and laws, were injured by a specific missile that fell in the outer courtyard, specifically in front of the emergency entrance.”
He added: “Now a state of panic and fear is taking over those at the scene, yet the work team is still providing emergency and rapid services to the wounded, until they are transferred to other hospitals.”
The man pointed out that Baptist Hospital “will not be able to support the rest of the hospitals in Gaza, after losing the capabilities that help them continue providing service, which doubles the challenges.”
Wounded Palestinians sit in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, after arriving from al-Ahli hospital following an explosion there, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. The Hamas-run Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike caused the explosion…
He continued: “Hospitals are already suffering severely in the last hours, before they are declared out of service. The electricity will be cut off as a result of the exhaustion of the reserve stock of fuel, which has been relied upon for more than 11 days. Tuesday was almost the last day in Al-Quds Hospital, but some people participated.” The internal authorities in sharing their fuel stocks postponed the announcement of their closure.”
Abu Musabih stressed that “all hospitals will stop at the same time, which means that the death toll will skyrocket. Then it will be of no use for the entire world to regret that it did not take a stand and did not intervene to stop what the people of Gaza are being subjected to.”
Anticipation of death
“So far, 7 hospitals, out of 20 hospitals in Gaza, have been threatened with bombing,” according to Abu Musabih, who added: “The Baptist Hospital was targeted without prior warning, knowing that even sending warning messages before attacking hospitals is contrary to all international norms and laws.” Especially the Fourth Geneva Convention, which has been ratified by more than 198 countries.”
“All Gaza hospitals fear being bombed,” says the director of the Gaza European Hospital, Dr. Youssef Al-Akkad, in contact with the Al-Hurra website, “after the Israeli army dared to cross all red lines and international and humanitarian laws, and bombed a hospital housing a large number of displaced people.” And the wounded, the sick, and the medical staff, killing hundreds of them.”
The raid sparked shock and condemned international and Arab reactions, and Arab countries declared mourning, while Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who cut short his visit to Jordan, described what happened as “an unforgivable crime that cannot be tolerated or allowed to pass without accountability. Any words other than We will not accept this war from anyone.” He added: “The occupation government has crossed all red lines and we will not allow it to escape accountability and punishment.”
In the same context, the World Health Organization “strongly” condemned the attack, and its Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called for “providing immediate protection for civilians and health care and rescinding evacuation orders.”
Demonstrations also took place in Arab and Western cities to denounce what happened.
Regarding the situation in Gaza’s hospitals, Al-Aqqad commented by saying, “The situation is getting worse day by day.” He continued: “On Tuesday, 100 wounded and 16 dead arrived at the Gaza European Hospital. The majority of the wounded require surgical operations and intensive care, which increases the pressure on the health system inside the hospital.” “.
For his part, Abu Musabah said, “The Palestinian people are heading towards a humanitarian and health catastrophe. In addition to the number of dead and wounded, we must not forget the medical neglect of patients with cancer, kidneys, heart and other diseases, the severe lack of nutrition for children and breastfeeding women, the polluted water used by the displaced, and many others.” “.
500 people were killed in a bombing on the Baptist Hospital in Gaza
“The international community and people of conscience must stand by the Palestinian people and the emergency and medical teams,” according to Abu Musabeh, who also asked: “How long will the medical teams remain steadfast? And which hospital will have the role after the Baptist Hospital? We in the Palestinian Red Crescent are waiting.” “Our death, like the rest of the people of Gaza.”
He pointed out, “So far we have lost members of our crews and a large number of our vehicles have been destroyed, and soon we will all become breaking news.”
He concluded his speech by saying: “Today, not tomorrow, safe corridors must be opened to bring in humanitarian aid and fuel, and those suffering from serious injuries must be transferred to receive treatment in hospitals outside the Gaza Strip. The health and medical system in Gaza is flabby and weak due to the siege that has continued for more than 15 years.”
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