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Wounded Gazans Left to Die
GAZA CITY — Scores of Palestinians injured in ongoing Israeli strikes and attacks are left to die not because doctors and medics are reluctant to help by simply because they are left with nothing to save innocent lives.
"It breaks my heart to see patients succumbing to their wounds and we can't do anything to save their lives," Dr Bassam Abu Warda, the director of the Kamal Edwan Hospital in northern Gaza Strip, told IslamOnline.net on Saturday, March 1.
With a tinge of sourness in his voice, the physician said the hospital is running out of drugs and basic materials necessary for surgeries because of the Israeli blockade.
"The hospital will soon close its doors," said Dr Abu Warda.
"We cannot provide medication any more and we treat people's injuries without anesthesia."
The health authorities in the Gaza Strip are in urgent needs of up to 71 kinds of drugs and 162 items of materials used in surgeries.
"We cannot cope with staggering number of injured people," lamented Abu Warda.
The hospital's corridors are crammed with dozens of Gaza civilians wounded and burned in the unabated string of Israeli random missile raids since Wednesday, February 27.
Many were critically injured in the deadly attacks and need immediate surgeries.
Others suffer medium injuries that are, because of the lack of medicine, becoming life-threatening.
At least 84 Gazans have been killed since Wednesday, including 46 on Saturday alone, while hundreds have been wounded.
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Abu Warda accused Israeli occupation forces of preventing the few operational ambulances from helping the injured.
"Israel denies Palestinian ambulances access to the eastern and northern parts of the Gaza Strip, causing many to die of their injuries."
With the Israeli obstacles and a serious shortage of fuel due to the Israeli closure and halt of fuel shipments, most of the ambulances in the Gaza Strip are out of service.
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With a tinge of sourness in his voice, the physician said the hospital is running out of drugs and basic materials necessary for surgeries because of the Israeli blockade.
"The hospital will soon close its doors," said Dr Abu Warda.
"We cannot provide medication any more and we treat people's injuries without anesthesia."
The health authorities in the Gaza Strip are in urgent needs of up to 71 kinds of drugs and 162 items of materials used in surgeries.
"We cannot cope with staggering number of injured people," lamented Abu Warda.
The hospital's corridors are crammed with dozens of Gaza civilians wounded and burned in the unabated string of Israeli random missile raids since Wednesday, February 27.
Many were critically injured in the deadly attacks and need immediate surgeries.
Others suffer medium injuries that are, because of the lack of medicine, becoming life-threatening.
At least 84 Gazans have been killed since Wednesday, including 46 on Saturday alone, while hundreds have been wounded.
Cart Ambulances
Abu Warda accused Israeli occupation forces of preventing the few operational ambulances from helping the injured.
"Israel denies Palestinian ambulances access to the eastern and northern parts of the Gaza Strip, causing many to die of their injuries."
With the Israeli obstacles and a serious shortage of fuel due to the Israeli closure and halt of fuel shipments, most of the ambulances in the Gaza Strip are out of service.
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Samir, a 35-year-old Gazan journalist, maintains a calm tone in our daily phone calls. He usually even offers a joke at the expense of some Palestinian politician. But on Saturday he sounded agitated. "Have you all gone mad? What happened to you," he asked. "It's one thing if you only hit gunmen. But look at the pictures - they're all children, women. What is this madness? You have turned insanity into an art form."
A glance at the Arab television channels makes his comments clear. The images are horrific, so much so that Al Jazeera warned viewers about the content.
A shell has hit the kitchen of the Asliyeh family in Jebel Al-Kashf, east of Jabalya. A TV crew bursts into the room, together with the family. When the dust clears we see a small, charred body. Only the hair identifies it as a little girl. The men in the room scream "Samah, Samah." The victim is Samah, 12. Her mother runs in, screaming her name. The men hurry her out to keep her from seeing. The screaming continues.
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