2023-12-26 01:30:22
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported “heartbreaking” testimonies collected Monday by its teams in a hospital in the Gaza Strip where there are victims of the bombing of the al-Maghazi refugee camp.
“The WHO team has heard heartbreaking stories from medical staff and victims of the suffering inflicted by the explosions,” said the head of the UN organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on X (formerly Twitter).
WHO today visited Al-Aqsa Hospital, where scores of injured people were taken overnight following strikes in central #Gazaincluding in the vicinity of the Maghazi refugee camp.
Palestinian health authorities reported that 70 people were killed, while Al-Aqsa Hospital staff… pic.twitter.com/B5503C82CT
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) December 25, 2023
“A child lost his entire family in the strike on the camp. A nurse at the hospital suffered the same loss, her entire family was killed,” he added.
According to the Hamas health ministry, at least 70 people were killed in a strike Sunday evening on the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said it was “verifying the incident”. It was not possible to independently verify this figure.
“We need a ceasefire immediately”
Many dead bodies, in white body bags, were lined up on the ground at al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, before a funeral.
The hospital said it had received around a hundred injured people after the bombing, according to the head of the WHO. “The number of patients treated by the hospital far exceeds its capacity in terms of beds and staff,” he stressed. “Many will not survive the wait.” “This latest strike on a community in Gaza clearly shows why we need a ceasefire immediately,” he wrote.
Sean Casey, a member of the WHO mission, explained that he witnessed the care provided to a seriously injured 9-year-old boy named Ahmed. “He was treated simply with sedation to relieve his suffering before he died,” he described in a video filmed in the hospital, appearing to hold back tears.
“He was crossing the street in front of the shelter where his family was, and the building next to him was hit,” he said. “He was hit by shrapnel, by debris, his brain tissue was affected.”
“No one can do anything for him. As in so many cases here, there is no capacity to take care of complex neurological cases, complex trauma cases,” he lamented. “The operating rooms are working 24 hours a day. The emergency room is well, well above its capacity,” said this WHO official. “This situation is unacceptable,” he said angrily. “This has to stop.”
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