Speaking from the enclave devastated by the war in the midst of the ongoing Israeli military impulse to take total control of the city of Gaza, the UNICEF spokesman James Elder described a brief visit to a hospital where young people were suffering or dying everywhere.
While we talk to the surgeon there, she dies in bed in front of us
A victim at the Al Aqsa hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza, was Aya, six years old, injured by an air attack. “I’m really noticing not only the wound, but the attention that bobs in their hair, the care a father has given before air attack,” he said. “While we talk to the surgeon there, she dies in bed in front of us. It’s 30 minutes in a hospital.”
There is no space to move
In the same hospital, Mr. Elder reported having seen three children “all triggered by Quadcopters”, an attack drone with four propellers, amid continuous reports that people continue to be injured while looking for help from the controversial relief distribution centers administered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
“It is a war zone, children on the floor, there is a child who had shot GHF who was bleeding on the floor“ With others Wounded by shooting, shrapnel or burns.
UNICEF spokesman stressed the reports that 1,000 babies have been killed in the last two years in Gaza since the terrorist attacks led by Hamas in Israel triggered the war. “We have no idea how many more they have died from preventable diseases“He continued.
With only around 14 of the 36 hospitals of Gaza still open and partially functional after almost two years of war, they are often “absolutely full” of people who need help, Mr. Elder emphasized.
Rescued, terrified
“I turn around and there is a girl, Sham, who has just been taken out of the rubble; so she is covered with that dust and smoke with that terrified expression on her face, however, her mother and her sister were killed by an uncle or an uncle.”
As for the city of Gaza, the UN veteran worker emphasized that many thousands of people remain there unable to leave, amid continuous orders of Israeli evacuation that have left the children “shudder” and looking towards the sky “to track the fire” of the helicopters and quadruple.
“You have children without shoes that push grandparents around the rubble, amputated children are fighting through dust, mothers wear exhausted children; Literally, your skin is bleeding due to the severity of eruptions.“, Mr. Elder continued, before warning about” continuous indiscriminate attacks in densely populated civil areas despite official statements. “
Another murdered humanitarian worker
On Thursday, the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirmed the Gaza murder of its fourteenth medical worker, the Omar Hayek occupational therapist, in an attack that also wounded four of his colleagues in Deir Al-Balah.
Until September 13, he had worked at a MSF clinic in the city of Gaza before finally evacuating in the midst of “relentless attacks and forced displacement of Israeli forces,” said the NGO.
“People are scared and rightly …” If you ask me now, can we do our job? I say no, of course, we cannot do our job in the north, ”said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, representative of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The level of violence in Gaza is such that nowhere is safe, including field hospitals, which do not offer protection against street bullets, said Christian Cardon of the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC).
“We had several occasions of the injured people, brought to the hospital and while they were treated, they were Wounded again by the street bullets that come to the hospital“He said, pointing to another incident of this type on Thursday.