Australian volunteer doctor in Gaza 'stranded' after Israel's closure of Rafah crossing
7 months ago

Australian volunteer doctor in Gaza 'stranded' after Israel's closure of Rafah crossing

ABC  

An Australian volunteer doctor in Gaza has become trapped in the war zone after Israel's seizure and closure of the Rafah border crossing. US and UK find solution to get doctors out Dr Albeiruti was working with a team of other volunteer doctors — including from the US, the United Kingdom, and Jordan — at the European Hospital in Gaza's biggest southern city, Khan Younis. But Dr Albeiruti says Australia has left him "stranded" and he now fears for his life as daily aerial attacks from Israel continue in the Gaza strip. Doctor says crossing closure cut off medical supplies He says the hospital is also running critically low on supplies, which are usually brought in with each new cohort of volunteers every two weeks.

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Gaza medical worker deaths exceed 1,000
Top News
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Gaza medical worker deaths exceed 1,000

China Daily  

By JAN YUMUL in Hong Kong | China Daily | Updated: 2024-11-26 06:50 A displaced Palestinian woman clears water from a tent following heavy rainfall north of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday amid the ongoing conflict in the region. BASHAR TALEB/AFP More than 1,000 medical workers in Gaza have been killed in Israeli strikes since October …

Gaza medical worker deaths exceed 1,000
Top News
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Gaza medical worker deaths exceed 1,000

China Daily  

A displaced Palestinian woman clears water from a tent following heavy rainfall north of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday amid the ongoing conflict in the region. BASHAR TALEB/AFP More than 1,000 medical workers in Gaza have been killed in Israeli strikes since October last year, local authorities have said, as Tel Aviv is accused of waging …

Gaza medical worker deaths exceed 1,000
Top News
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Gaza medical worker deaths exceed 1,000

China Daily  

By JAN YUMUL in Hong Kong | China Daily | Updated: 2024-11-26 06:50 A displaced Palestinian woman clears water from a tent following heavy rainfall north of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday amid the ongoing conflict in the region. BASHAR TALEB/AFP More than 1,000 medical workers in Gaza have been killed in Israeli strikes since October …

Gaza medical worker deaths exceed 1,000
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Gaza medical worker deaths exceed 1,000

China Daily  

Experts call for more efforts from intl community to stop killing of civilians More than 1,000 medical workers in Gaza have been killed in Israeli strikes since October last year, local authorities have said, as Tel Aviv is accused of waging a "campaign of extermination" in north Gaza. These projectiles penetrate the bodies of our workers, causing severe bleeding and …

Israeli Strike Wounds Director Of North Gaza’s Main Hospital
1 month ago

Israeli Strike Wounds Director Of North Gaza’s Main Hospital

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Israeli strikes this weekend on what’s considered north Gaza’s main hospital have resulted in about a dozen wounded staff, including the barely operational medical facility’s director, amid the region’s worsening humanitarian catastrophe. Like the rest of Gaza, the Israeli military continues to attack the north’s health care system, including Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, where only …

Al-Awda Hospital: A Lifeline Under Siege, in Peril
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Al-Awda Hospital: A Lifeline Under Siege, in Peril

Al Jazeera  

Al-Awda Hospital, a partially functional medical facility in northern Gaza, has been repeatedly targeted by armed forces, with three attacks in the past three weeks causing significant damage. The facility is currently encircled and trapped, with 163 people trapped, including 24 patients in critical care. The hospital is a symbol of hope for the people of Gaza, but it is …

WHO Re-establishes Contact with Gaza Hospital, but Situation Escalates
1 month, 4 weeks ago

WHO Re-establishes Contact with Gaza Hospital, but Situation Escalates

Deccan Chronicle  

WHO re-establishes contact with staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, reporting that three health workers were injured, 44 detained, and four ambulances damaged. The situation escalated after Gaza's health ministry alleged that Israeli forces raided the hospital in Jabalia camp, resulting in the deaths of two children and the detention of hundreds of staff, patients, and displaced individuals.

Humanitarians Warn Israel Is Rapidly Erasing Northern Gaza: ‘We Feel Hopeless’
2 months ago

Humanitarians Warn Israel Is Rapidly Erasing Northern Gaza: ‘We Feel Hopeless’

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Humanitarians, aid groups and Palestinian civilians are desperately trying to tell the world that the Israeli military is essentially wiping northern Gaza off the map, with its weekslong siege involving relentless bombing, the destruction of hospitals and other infrastructure, and the ongoing aid blockade that is worsening both hunger and medical care. The Palestinian Civil Defense announced …

Gaza's hospitals overwhelmed by injured from Israel's military campaign
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Gaza's hospitals overwhelmed by injured from Israel's military campaign

News 18  

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip: Hazem Farjallah wails as he lies in the Gaza hospital corridor, his head bandaged and his aunt by his side, days after he was injured by Israeli bombardment and with little prospect of adequate medical care. His plight shows the dire condition of Gaza’s damaged, under equipped and understaffed hospitals eight months into Israel’s military campaign …

Little Lama was just about to escape a war zone for treatment on her shattered leg. Then Israel invaded Rafah
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Little Lama was just about to escape a war zone for treatment on her shattered leg. Then Israel invaded Rafah

ABC  

Ten-year-old Lama was dressed and her bag packed to escape Gaza when Israel invaded Rafah and closed the only crossing out of the enclave. She had been granted special permission by Israeli and Egyptian officials to leave the enclave through the Rafah crossing after her leg was shattered during an Israeli attack on her home earlier this year. But since …

Medics in Gaza risking their lives to save people hurt by Israel’s war
7 months ago

Medics in Gaza risking their lives to save people hurt by Israel’s war

Al Jazeera  

Palestinian and foreign medics are working in impossible circumstances to save countless lives in Gaza Izedine Lulu was besieged in Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital when he heard that Israel had bombed his family home in November. “It was the first time I had ever buried people on the hospital’s.” “There is no support for medics in Gaza, but I think it’s …

US, international volunteer doctors trapped in Gaza hospital by Israeli assault
7 months, 1 week ago

US, international volunteer doctors trapped in Gaza hospital by Israeli assault

The Independent  

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They were treating waves of wounded in Gaza. Then an Israeli assault trapped the foreign doctors
7 months, 1 week ago

They were treating waves of wounded in Gaza. Then an Israeli assault trapped the foreign doctors

Associated Press  

CAIRO — The 35 American and other international doctors came to Gaza in volunteer teams to help one of the territory’s few hospitals still functioning. “Three of the U.S. citizen doctors in our teams declined to leave without a formal replacement plan for them,” the association’s president, Mustafa Muslen, said. The two international teams have been working since early May …

Trapped in Rafah, U.S. medical volunteers say they can't save lives and can't evacuate
7 months, 1 week ago

Trapped in Rafah, U.S. medical volunteers say they can't save lives and can't evacuate

NPR  

Trapped in Rafah, U.S. medical volunteers say they can't save lives and can't evacuate Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions of injuries. Enlarge this image toggle caption Monica Johnston Monica Johnston AMMAN, Jordan — When Zain Abu Obeid died on Sunday at the last functioning hospital in Rafah, there was no one to collect the 7-year-old boy's body from …

Israel-Hamas war: South Gaza hospitals have only three days' fuel left, says WHO
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Israel-Hamas war: South Gaza hospitals have only three days' fuel left, says WHO

Hindustan Times  

Hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip have only three days of fuel left due to closed border crossings, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The remains of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency school in central Khan Younis, Gaza, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. International negotiators, including from the US, are at a delicate phase …

Israel-Hamas war: Doctors visiting Gaza stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Israel-Hamas war: Doctors visiting Gaza stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children

Associated Press  

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst. Doctors perform surgery on a patient at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, Sunday, March 17, 2024. Pediatrician Tanya Haj-Hassan, center, examines wounded children at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. Pediatrician Tanya Haj-Hassan, examines wounded …

Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But the gruesome impact Israel’s war against Hamas is …

Al-Shifa: Why Israeli forces are raiding Gaza hospital – again
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Al-Shifa: Why Israeli forces are raiding Gaza hospital – again

CNN  

CNN — Israeli forces last week launched another military operation on Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, bringing the sprawling medical facility north of the enclave back into the spotlight. Israeli forces began their most recent operation there on March 18, saying they are conducting “precise operational activities against terrorists” located at Al-Shifa – a statement also echoed in November’s raid. Speaking …

Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war’s toll on Palestinian children
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war’s toll on Palestinian children

LA Times  

An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst. Haj-Hassan, who has extensive experience in Gaza and regularly speaks out about the war’s devastating effects, was part of a team that recently finished a two-week stint there. “What does that tell you about every other hospital in the Gaza Strip?” A different team …

Palestinians describe bodies and ambulances crushed in Israel’s ongoing raid at Gaza’s main hospital
9 months ago

Palestinians describe bodies and ambulances crushed in Israel’s ongoing raid at Gaza’s main hospital

Associated Press  

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians who fled an ongoing Israeli raid of Gaza’s main hospital described mass arrests and forced marches past bodies in interviews on Sunday, while the United Nations said Israel is now blocking its main agency helping Palestinians from sending food aid to the enclave’s devastated north. A day after standing near some of the estimated 7,000 …

Israeli military forced journalists and health workers to strip in Gaza hospital raid, eyewitnesses say
9 months ago

Israeli military forced journalists and health workers to strip in Gaza hospital raid, eyewitnesses say

CNN  

CNN — Israeli forces detained Palestinian journalists and health workers, blindfolded them and stripped them down to their underwear in Al-Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza, according to eyewitness accounts shared with CNN. On Wednesday, the IDF added that forces questioned “over 300 suspects” and took at least 160 others to Israeli territory “for further questioning.” CNN cannot independently verify the …

Gaza doctor says gunfire accounted for 80% of the wounds at his hospital from aid convoy bloodshed
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Gaza doctor says gunfire accounted for 80% of the wounds at his hospital from aid convoy bloodshed

Associated Press  

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — The head of a Gaza City hospital that treated some of the Palestinians wounded in the bloodshed surrounding an aid convoy said Friday that more than 80% had been struck by gunfire, suggesting there was heavy shooting by Israeli troops. The United Nations says a U.N. team that visited Shifa Hospital in Gaza City reported “a …

Live updates | Deadly strikes across Gaza as Israel makes plans to evacuate civilians from Rafah
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Live updates | Deadly strikes across Gaza as Israel makes plans to evacuate civilians from Rafah

Associated Press  

Israeli airstrikes hit the central Gaza Strip and the southern city of Rafah on the border with Egypt overnight into Friday, killing nearly two dozen people including women and children, witnesses and hospital officials said. “I saw people needing food, water, sanitation issues.. We need to get humanitarian aid in.” Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, sparked by the militant …

‘Medicine in Gaza’: A doctor’s guide to treating Gaza’s sick and wounded
11 months ago

‘Medicine in Gaza’: A doctor’s guide to treating Gaza’s sick and wounded

Al Jazeera  

A young doctor recalls his time as a student in Ukraine, highlighting obstacles faced by health workers in times of war. Dubbed a “war on hospitals”, Israel’s attacks have not spared medical facilities, healthcare workers, ambulances, patients, as well as thousands of terrified internally displaced people sheltering inside hospitals. “I have not seen anything as horrific as what I’ve seen …

During 100 days of war, a Gaza doctor pushes through horror and loss in his struggle to save lives
11 months, 1 week ago

During 100 days of war, a Gaza doctor pushes through horror and loss in his struggle to save lives

Associated Press  

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — For a few hours every day or night, Dr. Suhaib Alhamss tries to sleep on a thin mattress in an operating room. Dr. Suhaib Alhamss, the director of the Kuwaiti Hospital in Gaza’s southern town of Rafah, takes a break to eat with his young daughters during their weekly visit to the hospital. Dr. Suhaib Alhamss, …

Lose a limb or risk death? Growing numbers among Gaza’s thousands of war-wounded face hard decisions
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Lose a limb or risk death? Growing numbers among Gaza’s thousands of war-wounded face hard decisions

Associated Press  

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose your left leg or risk death. “My whole life has changed,” said Nabahin, speaking from her bed at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central town of Deir al-Balah. On Nov. 13, when an Israeli airstrike hit the home of Nabahin’s neighbor in Bureij, an urban …

WHO's SOS on Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital: ‘It’s a bloodbath, needs resuscitation'
1 year ago

WHO's SOS on Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital: ‘It’s a bloodbath, needs resuscitation'

Hindustan Times  

Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital's emergency department has been devastated by Israeli bombardments and is "a blood bath" which is "in need of resuscitation", the World Health Organisation said after a team from the global health body and other United Nations agencies delivered medical supplies to the hospital. It is a “hospital in need of resuscitation”, WHO warned as only 30 patients …

Inside a southern Gaza hospital: Screaming orphaned children, amputations and the stench of rotting flesh
1 year ago

Inside a southern Gaza hospital: Screaming orphaned children, amputations and the stench of rotting flesh

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Inside the European Hospital, one of the main medical …

Israel-Hamas war: Escaped from Al-Shifa, a Palestinian surgeon recalls impossible choices
1 year, 1 month ago

Israel-Hamas war: Escaped from Al-Shifa, a Palestinian surgeon recalls impossible choices

New Indian Express  

The WHO said in a statement that the chief of the biggest hospital in the besieged Palestinian territory had been arrested on Wednesday along with five other health workers, while they were taking part in a UN mission to evacuate patients. Since then two of the six have reportedly been released, but "we do not have information about the well-being …

Israeli army arrests al-Shifa Hospital director, other doctors in Gaza
1 year, 1 month ago

Israeli army arrests al-Shifa Hospital director, other doctors in Gaza

Al Jazeera  

Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya and several other medical personnel detained as Israel continues its Gaza offensive. Days before the arrests, “two Palestinian paramedics had been arrested by the Israeli occupation forces”, said Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from southern Gaza on Thursday. Indonesian Hospital Meanwhile on Thursday, Munir al-Bursh, the director-general of Gaza’s Health Ministry, said the Israeli army …

Egypt's Rafah border with Gaza is key for aid coming in and people leaving for safety
1 year, 1 month ago

Egypt's Rafah border with Gaza is key for aid coming in and people leaving for safety

NPR  

Egypt's Rafah border with Gaza is key for aid coming in and people leaving for safety Enlarge this image toggle caption Aya Batrawy/NPR Aya Batrawy/NPR RAFAH, Egypt — A dusty, remote border crossing on the tip of Egypt's North Sinai has become the focus of international attention because it is currently the only way in and out of the Gaza …

In a Cairo hospital: Guilt, pain and a desperate wait
1 year, 1 month ago

In a Cairo hospital: Guilt, pain and a desperate wait

CNN  

CNN — When Rami Mahmoud left his family’s home to buy food, his wife, Elham Maged, stayed behind to pray. CNN Two weeks on from the horror of that day, the couple are more than 200 miles southwest of Gaza City, inside Cairo’s Nasser Medical Institute in neighboring Egypt. My youngest is 4 years old.” Both Wadea and Mahmoud’s families …

Hundreds of patients evacuate Al Shifa hospital in Gaza on foot as 450 are left behind - while Israel vows to advance 'wherever Hamas exists'
1 year, 1 month ago

Hundreds of patients evacuate Al Shifa hospital in Gaza on foot as 450 are left behind - while Israel vows to advance 'wherever Hamas exists'

Daily Mail  

Hundreds of civilians and health workers fled Gaza's largest hospital on foot today as Israeli troops issued the order to evacuate over loudspeakers on Saturday. Israeli soldiers inspect the al-Shifa hospital complex, amid their ground operation against Hamas, in Gaza City, November 15, 2023 Tents and shelters used by displaced Palestinians stand at the yard of Al Shifa hospital during …

Hamas Says All Hospitals in Northern Gaza 'Out of Service,' Toll in Al-Shifa Rises to Six Babies
1 year, 1 month ago

Hamas Says All Hospitals in Northern Gaza 'Out of Service,' Toll in Al-Shifa Rises to Six Babies

News 18  

The Hamas-run health ministry said Monday that none of the hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are operational, as intense fighting continued between Israeli troops and Hamas militants. Rish told the French agency that a premature baby and two patients have died in Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital, as the facility suffered fuel shortages amid intense fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas …

Al-Shifa hospital: Doctors race to save newborns as Israel says it’s battling Hamas around Gaza’s largest hospital
1 year, 1 month ago

Al-Shifa hospital: Doctors race to save newborns as Israel says it’s battling Hamas around Gaza’s largest hospital

CNN  

CNN — Premature babies at Gaza’s largest hospital are being wrapped in foil and placed next to hot water in a desperate bid to keep them alive in “catastrophic” conditions, the hospital director has warned, as Israeli firepower pounds surrounding streets and remaining fuel reserves dry up, leaving the facility unable to function. “There is no more water, food, milk …

Medics and patients, including babies, stranded as battles rage around Gaza hospitals
1 year, 1 month ago

Medics and patients, including babies, stranded as battles rage around Gaza hospitals

LA Times  

Battles between Israel and Hamas around hospitals have forced thousands of Palestinians to flee from some of the last perceived safe places in northern Gaza, stranding critically wounded patients, newborns and their caregivers with dwindling supplies and no electricity, health officials said Monday. Gunfire and explosions raged Monday around Gaza City’s main hospital, Shifa, which has been encircled by Israeli …

Hospitals and medical centers in Gaza are caught up in a war zone
1 year, 1 month ago

Hospitals and medical centers in Gaza are caught up in a war zone

NPR  

Hospitals and medical centers in Gaza are caught up in a war zone NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Zaher Sahloul of the medical aid charity MedGlobal about the status of his staff in Gaza, and the conditions for patients in hospitals there. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The humanitarian crisis in Gaza now centers on a single medical facility known as …

‘We are minutes away from death’: Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital under attack
1 year, 1 month ago

‘We are minutes away from death’: Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital under attack

Al Jazeera  

Palestinian health officials say babies in incubators are fighting for their lives as Israel lays siege to the hospital compound. “We are minutes away from imminent death,” Muhammad Abu Salmiya, al-Shifa Hospital’s director, told Al Jazeera from inside the besieged facility on Saturday, where operations had to be suspended after it ran out of power and fuel. “We lost a …

Gaza hospital in ‘catastrophic situation,’ amid heavy fighting nearby, health officials say
1 year, 1 month ago

Gaza hospital in ‘catastrophic situation,’ amid heavy fighting nearby, health officials say

CNN  

CNN — Heavy fighting near Gaza’s largest hospital has left it in a “catastrophic situation,” with patients and staff trapped inside, ambulances unable to collect the wounded and life-support systems without electricity, health officials and aid agencies are reporting. Three newborn babies died after the hospital went “out of service” amid intense fighting in the area, according to the Hamas-controlled …

Live updates | Fighting near hospitals in north Gaza, as Palestinians flee to overcrowded shelters
1 year, 1 month ago

Live updates | Fighting near hospitals in north Gaza, as Palestinians flee to overcrowded shelters

Associated Press  

Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing northern Gaza as Israel’s military pushed deeper into dense urban neighborhoods in its battle with Hamas militants. He said half of the Gaza Strip’s 36 hospitals and two-thirds of its primary health care centers are not functioning, and facilities that are functioning “are operating way beyond their capacities.” ISRAEL LOWERS OCT. 7 DEATH TOLL TO …

Gaza hospital ‘surrounded by tanks’ as other healthcare facilities say they’ve been damaged by Israeli strikes
1 year, 1 month ago

Gaza hospital ‘surrounded by tanks’ as other healthcare facilities say they’ve been damaged by Israeli strikes

CNN  

CNN — Israeli tanks have surrounded a Gaza hospital, its director told CNN, as the territory’s largest healthcare facility came under a reported “bombardment,” heightening fears Friday that Israel’s military campaign is further endangering Gazan patients and medical staff. “We do not know our fate.” His call comes after strikes were reported near several other hospitals in northern Gaza, including …

My day as a doctor at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | Close Up
1 year, 1 month ago

My day as a doctor at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | Close Up

Al Jazeera  

“Every day we say today was the worst ever, then the next day turns out even worse,” says Sara Al Saqqa, a young surgeon at al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility. In one month of Israel’s assault on Gaza, at least 10,000 Palestinians have been killed, including 4880 children, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Before Israel’s assault on Gaza, …

Gaza’s hospitals overwhelmed as power run out
1 year, 1 month ago

Gaza’s hospitals overwhelmed as power run out

CNN  

CNN — In Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility, a dazed and drowsy woman sits on the floor with a bleeding leg. Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images The Israeli military told CNN in a statement Tuesday that the Israel Defense Forces “did not strike Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital.” It did not offer any further information. The humanitarian agency Care International warned Monday …

Israel-Hamas War: Foreigners Leave Gaza As Rafah Border Opens For First Time
1 year, 1 month ago

Israel-Hamas War: Foreigners Leave Gaza As Rafah Border Opens For First Time

ABP News  

Scores of people holding foreign passports left the war-torn Gaza for Egypt after the Rafah border crossing opened for the first time since the beginning of the war on October 7, reported AFP. The Gaza Borders and Crossings Authority earlier this morning published a list of more than 500 foreigners and dual citizenship holders, calling them to head towards the …

Rafah crossing linking war-torn Gaza to Egypt opens
1 year, 1 month ago

Rafah crossing linking war-torn Gaza to Egypt opens

Al Jazeera  

More than 500 foreigners, dual nationals and dozens of injured Palestinians are allowed to leave the war-torn enclave. More than 500 foreign nationals and dual citizens will be allowed to leave the enclave, the Gaza Borders and Crossings Authority said in a statement verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad Agency. Convoys of desperately needed aid have been trickling in Gaza through …

Egypt to receive wounded Gazans via Rafah crossing today: Report
1 year, 1 month ago

Egypt to receive wounded Gazans via Rafah crossing today: Report

Hindustan Times  

Egypt is preparing to receive wounded Palestinians from the heavily bombarded Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing for medical treatment, medical and security sources said on Tuesday. Palestinians conduct search and rescue works at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip It comes amid unrelenting Israeli bombardment of the Hamas-run …

Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the ‘nightmare’ of Gaza’s hospitals
1 year, 2 months ago

Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the ‘nightmare’ of Gaza’s hospitals

Associated Press  

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The only thing worse than the screams of a patient undergoing surgery without enough anesthesia are the terror-stricken faces of those awaiting their turn, a 51-year-old orthopedic surgeon says. When the Israeli bombing intensifies and the wounded swamp the Gaza City hospitals where Dr. Nidal Abed works, he treats patients wherever he can — on …

Defying bone-crushing exhaustion, Gaza’s doctors work despite Israel’s war
1 year, 2 months ago

Defying bone-crushing exhaustion, Gaza’s doctors work despite Israel’s war

Al Jazeera  

Doctors work around the clock despite a shortage of medical supplies and the near-total collapse of the healthcare system in Gaza. On Thursday, the director of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Iyad al-Jabri, said the hospital’s “strategic stock of medicines and medical supplies is gone” and that there was a staff shortage. “The Israeli strikes have led to the death of 44 …

‘The Whole Health System Is Collapsing Around Us.’ Doctors Say Gaza Is on the Brink
54 years, 11 months ago

‘The Whole Health System Is Collapsing Around Us.’ Doctors Say Gaza Is on the Brink

Wired  

Even before this week’s deadly hospital blast, Gaza’s health system was already on the brink of collapse. Gaza’s health system has faced a huge influx of emergency patients, while at the same time suffering the effects of bombardment and having utilities cut. “The whole health system is collapsing around us,” says Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a plastic surgeon with Médecins Sans Frontières …

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