People in Gaza break into a UN warehouse to get supplies
A Trauma Survivor’s Tale in Gaza: Living in a Mortuary with No Electric Power, Water, Food, Medicine and Supplies
Even so, we are treating our patients to the best of our ability with the bare minimum of electricity, medicine and supplies. We sterilize wounds with vinegar, previously unthinkable in our modern intensive care unit. A rising tide of diseases isn’t seen in Gaza in years because of the lack of water and the fact that the water we do have isn’t potable. We had to store dead children in a nearby tent because the Mortuary was full and we had to pray that the decomposing bodies don’t harm the water wells. We fear an outbreak of cholera and typhoid. We fear for the long-term mental health impacts on the children in our care. Their little bodies are quick to injure and quick to heal, but their minds and spirits will need a lifetime of care to overcome what they have seen and experienced.
When I finished operating on a girl who had lost a leg, I walked into the hallway to get a hug from my wife. She told me that our home had been destroyed in an airstrike while I was in surgery. Our only place of residence is the hospital. At night, I go to my office and close the door to cry, away from the eyes of my patients and family.
As I write this, the hospital is on the precipice of true disaster. We are down to the last gallons of fuel necessary to run the electric generators, despite our most stringent efforts to ration it since the start of hostilities. Lights are off most of the time, elevators are out and patients are carried between floors. We will no longer be able to function at night after the sun goes down if the fuel runs out. The tools and equipment used in a modern hospital will no longer work as they were before. When the generators fall silent, we will be relegated to practicing medieval-level medicine. Without fuel, the lights will go out permanently, and our hospital could become a mortuary.
Israel’s crisis in Gaza deteriorates: warnings on the future of the U.N. warehouse for supplies and warnings to the Red Crescent
Daniel Hagari says the fighting in the north of the Gaza Strip is continuing and that they must achieve the goals of the war.
As the barrage continues, the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Sunday it received warnings from Israeli authorities to immediately evacuate the al-Quds hospital in the Gaza Strip.
“Since this morning, there has been raids 50 meters away from the hospital,” it added in a statement on Facebook. Israel refused to comment on the claims.
An official said Israel is going to significantly increase aid to Gaza in the next days, calling on Palestinian civilians to head to a “humanitarian” zone in the south of the territory.
President Benjamin Netanyahu had deleted an online statement saying that he didn’t know about the attack.
Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip were intense overnight. The IDF said that it had struck more than 450 terror targets over the course of a single day. An officer of the IDF was seriously injured in Gaza by a mortar shell.
The organization says it’s a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war.
Israelis broke into warehouses and distribution centers of the United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency (UNPRA) on Sunday, April 24 : Gazans dispersed
Thousands of Gaza residents broke into warehouses and distribution centers of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, grabbing flour and “basic survival items,” the organization said on Sunday.
The Palestinian Red Crescent on Sunday said it has received warnings from the Israeli authorities to evacuate the al-Quds hospital in Gaza Strip. ” since this morning, there has been raids 50 meters away from the hospital,” it added. Israeli officials have called on Palestinian civilians to head to a “humanitarian” zone in the south of the territory.