Medical Crisis in Gaza Amid Ongoing Violence

It was yet another tough, difficult day

that we needed to deal with

the horrible situation of lack of safety and security

and the continuous targeting of civilians

and the continuous violence-related trauma in Gaza Strip.

The past period and the testimony

of the medical team and what they keep saying

is that it's not a ceasefire at all.

It's not even close to being a ceasefire.

The first pouch of patients, we received several casualties

from an airstrike in Zawada and they were brought

in in a civilian car and dropped to our emergency department.

One of them, his injury was so bad that

we needed to operate on him immediately

and have do a three limb amputation.

He also unfortunately lost,

completely lost his vision in one eye

and the other eye is having a significant trauma,

which means that he will most probably become blinded

for the rest of his life.

And then after just less than two hours,

another airstrike in Deir el-Balah, close to Al-Aqsa Hospital,

and from that casualty, multiple casualty,

multiple trauma, ER in Al-Aqsa Hospital

asked for our support to decongest

and we sent our ambulances to pick up

six in two trips, six casualties from that incident.

They varied between yellow and red cases.

Some of them needed exploration, urgent exploration in our OT.

Some of them needed external fixation to their complex fractures.

This is a high magnitude of trauma and violence that

tired, exhausted medical teams and almost collapsed healthcare system

with a very limited and scarce availability of medical supplies,

consumables, medications, and medical equipment can deal with.

And it's not stopping and it doesn't appear to be stopping

anytime soon. We need to advocate more and more for a true ceasefire in Gaza.