Distraught relatives didn t wait for ambulances, rushing the wounded by car or on foot to Shifa Hospital, the territory’s largest. Exhausted doctors hurried from patient to patient, frantically bandaging shrapnel wounds to stop the bleeding. Others gathered at the hospital morgue, waiting with stretchers to remove the bodies for burial. At the Indonesia Hospital in the northern town of Jabaliya, the clinic overflowed after bombs fell nearby. Blood was everywhere, with victims lying on the floors of hallways. Relatives crowded the ER, crying out for loved ones and cursing Israel. “Before the military attacks, we had major shortages and could barely manage with the second (virus) wave,” said Gaza Health Ministry official Abdelatif al-Hajj by phone as bombs thundered in the background. “Now casualties are coming from all directions, really critical casualties. I fear a total collapse.
Hospitals in Gaza are struggling to handle COVID-19 cases coupled with airstrike victims Share Updated: 11:56 PM EDT May 13, 2021 By ISABEL DEBRE and FARES AKRAM / Associated Press
Hospitals in Gaza are struggling to handle COVID-19 cases coupled with airstrike victims Share Updated: 11:56 PM EDT May 13, 2021
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Show Transcript AIR STRIKES. AS 12 NEWS BEN WAGNER REPORTS, LOCAL STUDENTS ARE WATCHING, AS VIOLENCE INTENSIFIES. BEN: DAYS OF DEADLY ATTACKS HAVE SCARRED EAST JERUSALEM ISRAEL AND GAZA. THE ISRAELI MILITARY KILLING 65 PALESTINIANS, INCLUDING 16 CHILDREN. HAMAS ROCKETS KILLED SIX IN ISRAEL. PROTESTS IN CITY STREETS AFTER AN ISRAELI POLICE RAID ON THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE DURING THE MUSLIM HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN. TO SEE AL-AQSA MOSQUE ABSOLUTELY DESECRATED IS ALMOST SURREAL IN A SENSE. IT’S DEVASTATING. IT’S BEEN CONSUMING. BEN: LINA HABIB AND YASMEEN ATTA ARE BOTH PALESTINIAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS AT MARQUETTE AND MEMBERS OF
Beset by coronavirus, Gaza s hospitals now struggle with wounded Associated Press
Just weeks ago, the Gaza Strip s feeble health system was struggling with a runaway surge of coronavirus cases. Authorities cleared out hospital operating rooms, suspended nonessential care and redeployed doctors to patients having difficulty breathing.
Then, the bombs began to fall.
This week s
violence between Israel and Gaza s Hamas rulers has killed 103 Palestinians, including 27 children, and wounded 530 people in the impoverished territory. Israeli airstrikes have pounded apartments, blown up cars and toppled buildings.
Doctors across the crowded coastal enclave are now reallocating intensive care unit beds and scrambling to keep up with a very different health crisis: treating blast and shrapnel wounds, bandaging cuts and performing amputations.
Isabel Debre And Fares Akram May 13, 2021 - 10:35 PM
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) â Just weeks ago, the Gaza Stripâs feeble health system was struggling with a runaway surge of coronavirus cases. Authorities cleared out hospital operating rooms, suspended nonessential care and redeployed doctors to patients having difficulty breathing.
Then, the bombs began to fall.
This week s violence between Israel and Gaza s Hamas rulers has killed 103 Palestinians, including 27 children, and wounded 530 people in the impoverished territory. Israeli airstrikes have pounded apartments, blown up cars and toppled buildings.This week s violence
Doctors across the crowded coastal enclave are now reallocating intensive care unit beds and scrambling to keep up with a very different health crisis: treating blast and shrapnel wounds, bandaging cuts and performing amputations.
Then, the bombs began to fall.
This week’s violence between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers has killed 119 Palestinians, including 31 children, and wounded 830 people in the impoverished territory. Israeli airstrikes have pounded apartments, blown up cars and toppled buildings.
Doctors across the crowded coastal enclave are now reallocating intensive care unit beds and scrambling to keep up with a very different health crisis: treating blast and shrapnel wounds, bandaging cuts and performing amputations.
Distraught relatives didn’t wait for ambulances, rushing the wounded by car or on foot to Shifa Hospital, the territory’s largest. Exhausted doctors hurried from patient to patient, frantically bandaging shrapnel wounds to stop the bleeding. Others gathered at the hospital morgue, waiting with stretchers to remove the bodies for burial.