With #Gaza being under fire by #Israel again, #hospitals are experiencing horrors.
CW: the linked article contains details about wounded children, and about insufficient means to treat them.
»“They had been sleeping so were coming in wearing pyjamas, wrapped in blankets. Often it was neighbours bringing them because the #parents had been killed. It was horrific. We had to stop resuscitating several #kids simply to focus on one who had a chance,” said Haj-Hassan.
Feroze Sidhwa , a 43-year-old trauma surgeon from California, in Khan Younis as a volunteer with the medical charity #MedGlobal, described telling the father of one four-year-old #girl that his daughter was not going to live more than a few more minutes. “I had a look … She had very serious head injuries … I told her dad to take her outside and be with her and pray with her and he did,” Sidhwa told the Guardian.«
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“The first Geneva Convention was signed in 1864, and that was the first creation of international law, at least in the West, and it’s specifically about not obstructing the work of physicians and nurses.”
“This is barbarity. This isn’t how reasonable civilised people behave. It doesn’t matter what they were trying to do. You don’t bomb a hospital no matter what, that’s not how it works.”
Sidhwa, a volunteer surgeon at Nasser Hospital