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🇵🇸 ‘The war on Gaza is completely different than any previous wars’: Gaza doctor

Hospitals in Gaza are at breaking point.One doctor told Al Jazeera that he's witnessed horrific injuries that are impossible to comprehend.
All while medical workers fear air strikes that threaten their lives.At least 202 health workers have been killed in the fighting in Gaza already.

Source : Al Jazeera
#Palestine #Gaza #Doctor #Testimonies #Hospital #HealthCare #Infastructure #WarCrimes
16/11/2023

Israel's war on hospitals

With exclusive footage from inside the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, Al-Shifa, The Grayzone examines the Israeli military's policy of attacking and eliminating medicare care centers across the northern part of the besieged Palestinian territory as it seeks to expel its residents.

By Max Blumenthal, Mohamed El-Saife and Anya Parampil - The Grayzone 20/11/2023
#Palestine #Gaza #Hospital #AlShifa #WarCrimes #EthnicCleansing #Genocide #IOF #HealthCare #NewNakba

🇵🇸 Scenes from Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza after Israel's military exploded several facilities inside it before withdrawal shortly before the start of the pause.

The spokesman for the MoH, Ashraf Al Qudrah:

⭕️ There is no space in the hospitals of the south of Gaza and they cannot receive more patients.

⭕️ We call for finding better mechanisms to save the healthcare system in the strip.

⭕️ We called on international organizations to help us save the healthcare system.

Via @QudsNen
#Palestine #Gaza #WarCrimes #Hospital #Health #HealthCare #AlShifa #Genocide
25/11/2023

🇵🇸 'It's Bisan from Gaza and I'm Escaping South' | AJ+

Journalist Bisan Owda documented her journey from al-Shifa Hospital to southern Gaza as she tried to find a new place to shelter. Along her journey, she spokewith elderly people on the road, injured children and a doctor about diseases. Israel has ordered an evacuation to the south, but has continued bombing there. The UN says nearly all of Gaza is on the verge of starvation.

On top of starvation, heavy rains, cold temperatures and potential flooding are putting Gazans more at risk of infectious disease.  

Source : Al Jazeera
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Footage filmed on the 23/11/2023

🇵🇸 “Every aspect of Gaza’s health system has COLLAPSED!” | Dr Mohammed Seyam

Dr Mohammed Seyam is a medical doctor from the Gaza Strip.

Interview by Palestine Deep Dive recorded on the 22nd of November 2023, two days before the ‘#truce’ commenced.

Note : Other doctor testimonies published recently :
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Dr. Zahraa Abu Dabaa A doctor at the Nasser Medical Complex, resident of Rafah
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Dr Ghassan Abbu Sitta 'Israel used white phosphorus on Gaza's children' | ICJP Full Press Conference -
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‘The war on Gaza is completely different than any previous wars’: Gaza doctor
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#Gaza #Doctor #Hospital
#HealthCare #Testimonies

🇵🇸 Israel arrests, tortures Gaza doctors while world watches | Electronic Intifada

We were joined by Tarek Loubani, an emergency room physician based in Canada who has worked for years inside al-Shifa hospital in #GazaCity

He discussed the #abduction and #arrest of some of his colleagues by Israeli forces over the last few weeks, including Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the director of #AlShifa #hospital.

Tarek explained that the Israelis’ intention in taking and arresting these physicians, and subjecting them to physical and psychological torture, is meant to break the back of the #healthcare system even further in #Gaza.

“I don’t think any of them really expected, especially under the flag of the #ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross], for them to be subject to that kind of arrest,” Tarek said.

#AbuSalmiya’s arrest, “is a classic example of how the Israeli system works: it took him in with no charges, for no reason, it’s keeping him for a very specific purpose.”

#Doctor #WarCrimes #IOF #Torture

🇵🇸 We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable. | POLITICO

In the United States we would never dream of operating on anyone without consent, let alone a malnourished and barely conscious 9-year-old girl in septic shock. Nevertheless, when we saw Juri, that’s exactly what we did.

The two of us are humanitarian surgeons. Together, in our combined 57 years of volunteering, we’ve worked on more than 40 surgical missions in developing countries on four continents. We’re used to working in disaster and war zones, of being on intimate terms with death and carnage and despair.

None of that prepared us for what we saw in Gaza this spring.

#Gaza #Genocide #Hospital #Testinonies #Healthcare #Amputees #Children #Civilians #WarCrimes #IOF

🇵🇸“Inflicting harm and denying care” in the #WestBank: MSF report on escalation of attacks and obstructions of healthcare

"The #report which covers a one-year period from October 2023 and 2024, provides in-depth interviews from 38 MSF patients and personnel, #hospital staff, paramedics and volunteers supported by MSF who report prolonged and violent Israeli military incursions and stricter movement restrictions, all of which have severely hindered access to essential services, particularly #healthcare. The situation has further deteriorated since the ceasefire in Gaza, and has exacerbated dire living conditions for many Palestinians who are paying an immense physical and psychological toll.

Palestinian patients are dying because they simply cannot reach hospitals,” says Brice, MSF emergency coordinator. “We're seeing #ambulances blocked by Israeli forces at checkpoints while carrying critical patients, medical facilities surrounded and raided during active operations, and healthcare workers subjected to ph

🇵🇸 Reminder : Who Profits - The Israeli Occupation Industry

Since its 1967 #occupation of Palestinian and Syrian land, Israel has developed an intricate system of #oppression, combining military force, technology, #infrastructure, and regulations to exert control over Palestinian and Syrian populations and further entrench its control over #land and #resources. Populations living under Israel’s military rule are denied basic civil liberties and are subject to arbitrary repressive violence by the Israeli military, police force, and private security personnel.

In the occupied #WestBank, around 3 million Palestinians live within a complex mosaic of administrative areas carved out through the 1993 #OsloAccords. Under the Accords the West Bank was divided into three administrative areas (A, B, and C). #AreaA comprises approximately 18% of the West Bank and is nominally under full Palestinian control. Area B, comprising approximately 22% of the West Bank, is under the full administrative control of the Palestinian Authority(#PA) but under the military control of Israel. #AreaC, which comprises 61% of the West Bank, is under the full control of Israel through the Civil (Military) Administration in the West Bank. 

These areas are separated and surrounded by a system of #roadblocks, #fences, #walls, #barriers, and #checkpoints, as well as Israeli #settlements and roads designated for the exclusive use of Israelis. The movement of Palestinians between the separate areas is controlled by an elaborate #permit regime. Further, Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza require special permits to enter into areas annexed to Jerusalem, and #Jerusalem itself. Permits are allocated by the Israeli authorities according to secret security and economic considerations. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are blacklisted and cannot pass through any of the checkpoints, not even to #travel inside their own enclave to the next town or the surrounding area.

In #Gaza, around two million people have been living under an Israeli-imposed land, air, and sea siege since 2007. The movement of people, goods, and services in or out of Gaza is almost completely blocked, and ongoing military attacks cause mounting casualties and infrastructure #destruction.

#Population control and arbitrary movement #restrictions separate families, severely limit access to #HealthCare, #education, and employment, and hinder economic development. Israel also utilizes its force and technologies to surveil and intimidate populations, as well as to quell any form of political activity and resistance, including the routine use of lethal crowd control weapons and live fire on civilian demonstrators.

Collective punishments in the form of military assaults, house #demolitions, curfews, closures, and mass arrests are common. Presently, there are approximately 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli incarceration centers. About 1,000 are being held under administrative detention, i.e., without having been charged, tried, or sentenced.

Who Profits has identified three sub-categories of corporate involvement in Israel’s Population Control. Private Security and #Surveillance Technology refers to corporate involvement in Israel’s growing Private Security and Surveillance #Technology Industries. The Wall and Checkpoints refers to Israel’s intricate mechanisms of control, physical segregation, and restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the #oPt. Specialized Equipment and Services, refers to corporate involvement in the provision of services and equipment to the
Israeli military and security apparatus.

#Palestine #Syria #WhoProfits #Apartheid #Colonisation #Occupation #PopulationControl #TheWall