Gaza’s harrowing humanitarian disaster ‘is on another level’, healthcare workers tell seminar

Healthcare Workers for Palestine SA held a seminar on Wednesday at which healthcare workers with experience in working in Gaza spoke of the humanitarian crisis in the territory.

The first seminar of the week, titled “The Current State of Healthcare in Gaza; Experiences from the Frontline”, was held on Wednesday at the Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

According to statistics from the Gaza health ministry, by Wednesday, 30,717 people had been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its attacks in response to the 7 October Hamas attack, which took the lives of more than 1,000 people. “The occupation has killed all the meaning of the humanity which we live for. My uncle was killed by the Israeli settlers. My uncle was an old man, 70 years old and his name was Suleiman. He was a peaceful resistance man in the West Bank, all the time with no weapons. One day, settlers decided to run over him with a truck. I was the first one to arrive and I held some of his skull in my hand,” Hathleen said.“After that, he was in a coma for a week, and we arrived to him after six months.

There were also severe shortages of medical products, very limited surgical capacity, a trickle of aid, a breakdown in routine care for chronic diseases including cancer, and large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases.“You’re talking about a hospital that is working at two, three times capacity. Patients are spread out all over the hospital wherever they can find space — there’s an entire population that’s taking shelter in the hospital in any open space,” he said.

“We want an immediate ceasefire. We want the flow of humanitarian aid. We need at least 2,000 trucks of humanitarian in order to start talking about normal life. What we want is freedom. We want equality and we want justice.”Well there you go, they call them martyrs so the believe their deaths are good.

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