THE World Health Organizations (WHERE) referred to “heartbreaking» testimonies collected yesterday Monday by his team at a hospital in Gaza Stripwhere victims of the al-Maghazi refugee camp were treated.
“WHO team heard heartbreaking accounts from medical staff and victims of the suffering caused by the blastsTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the UN health agency, said via X (formerly Twitter).
“A child lost his entire family in the bombing of the camp. A hospital nurse suffered the same loss, her whole family was killed,” he added.
According to the Hamas Health Ministry, at least 70 people were killed in the bombardment yesterday Sunday of al-Maghazi refugee campin the central part of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military said it was “verifying the incident”.
AFP notes that it was unable to independently confirm the death toll.
Dozens of lifeless bodies in white body bags were lined up below al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Bala, in the central Gaza Strip, ahead of funerals.
The hospital reported admitting about a hundred wounded after the bombing, according to the WHO Director-General.
“The number of patients treated at the hospital far exceeds its capacity in terms of beds and staff,” he underlined. Many will not make it out of the waiting rooms alive.”
“This latest raid on a community in the Gaza Strip shows why we need a ceasefire now,” he added.
THE Sean Casey, a member of the WHO mission, said he was present when doctors treated a 9-year-old boy with a very serious head injury..
His name was Ahmed.
“He was simply given anesthesia, to relieve the pain before he died“, he described in a video shot at the hospital, visibly struggling to hold back his tears.
“He was crossing the street in front of the shelter where his family was and the building next to it was bombed“, explained. The child was “hit by shrapnel, debris, brain tissues were injured…”.
“No one could do anything for him. As in so many cases here, there are no capabilities to deal with complex neurological cases, complex injuries,” he continued.
“Surgeries work 24 hours a day. “Emergency departments are way, way, way overstretched,” this WHO official added.
“This situation is unacceptable,” Sean Casey fumed. “It has to stop”.
Source: News Beast
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