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Here's the latest from MSF.
Fuel and medical supplies are at critically low levels at al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza due to road closures while hundreds of patients are being admitted every day, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said.
The hospital, which we reported earlier received the bodies of 45 people killed on Tuesday from an Israeli strike on Deir al-Balah, according to its director, has been receiving between 150 and 200 wounded patients each day since the truce between Israel and Hamas ended on Friday, the aid agency said.
Marie-Aure Perreaut Revial, the MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza, said:
There are 700 patients admitted in the hospital now, with new patients arriving all the time. We are running out of essential supplies to treat them.
Shortages of medicine and fuel could result in the hospital being unable to provide life-saving surgeries or intensive care. Without electricity, ventilators would cease to function, blood donations would have to stop, the sterilisation of surgical instruments would be impossible.”
It is vital that the supply of humanitarian supplies is facilitated. The hospital urgently needs surgical sets, external fixators to hold broken bones together, and essential drugs, including drugs for chronic illnesses.
The agency called for an end to Israel’s siege on Gaza and for medical humanitarian supplies and aid to be allowed into the territory. |
I guess siege is the right word to describe what is going on, isn't it ?
Not a war (as one side have no government to sanction the actions of Hamas), not a special military operation, not a policing event, certainly not a peacekeeping mission. Modern weaponry but the medieval tactic of subjugating a population by siege. Tragic seems too light a word for what is going on, and for the consequences that will befall Israel's reputation (Hamas had little reputation to lose in the West). |  |
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