After the brutal attack on Israel by Hamas militants, Israel has begun air strikes on Gaza. The World Health Organization warns that the health system there is at a breaking point.
iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1203503616/1205721004" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">People injured from Israeli air strikes on Oct. 12 wait outside a hospital to be treated. The sheer volume of medical need is overwhelming the small and exhausted number of staff at Gaza's medical facilities, says Dr.
It's a common and tragic refrain among health professionals in Gaza. As the war between Hamas and Israel grinds into its seventh day with a blockade that's sealed off Gaza from the rest of the world, the medical situation for Gazans is increasingly desperate. And Israel has now issued a declaration that Gazans should evacuate the north within 24 hours, a harbinger of even more intense conflict.
"The wounded patient have difficult injuries due to explosive," he says,"multiple injur in head, in chest, in abdomen, in extremities." "Everybody that I'm seeing is being fished out of the rubble of their homes and they're caked in mud and gravel and masonry. And even the shrapnel that you take out of their bodies is masonry and glass and household building material."Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty ImagesAfter Israeli air strikes on Rafah, Gaza, on Oct. 12, an injured man is carried out from the rubble.
"The best solution would be to halt the conflict immediately," says Dr. Aldabbour."But I'm aware that this is at the hands of the politicians." Without outside help, many fear continued agony from the siege. And now, the Israeli military has advised over a million Palestinians to evacuate the north half of Gaza as their siege of the embattled area progresses into its next phase — a widely expected ground invasion accompanying further air strikes.
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