Doctors in southern Gaza are overwhelmed by the dead and the wounded—and by displaced Palestinians sleeping on the floor.
The baby was hardly the first unidentified patient the doctors had treated since Israel began bombing Gaza. Omar al-Najjar, a twenty-four-year-old intern stationed in the emergency room, explained in a phone interview that when an air strike hits a home, it often injures or kills everyone in a family, leaving no one available to identify the dead and wounded. “So we write ‘Unknown 1,’ ‘Unknown 2,’ ‘Unknown 3,’ ” he said.
“The patients are going to die in front of us, and we’re not going to be able to do anything.” Early on October 20th, the Gaza Health Ministry sent out an “an urgent distress call to all gas station owners and anyone who has any liter of diesel,” asking for donations “to save the lives of the wounded and sick.” On October 17th, Farra said, the hospital had reluctantly removed three struggling patients from the intensive-care unit.
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