Sunday July 7, 2024
Islamabad (Urdu Point. DW Urdu. July 7, 2024) In the war that started immediately after a major terrorist attack by the Palestinian militant organization Hamas in Israel on October 7 last year, so far in the Gaza Strip, according to the Ministry of Health, not only About 38 thousand people have been killed, but the number of injured has also increased to more than 86 thousand. A large number of Palestinian women and children are reported to be among the dead and injured.
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According to reports from the US capital, Washington, when the wounded in the war in Gaza are brought to the few hospitals that are still functioning in this densely populated Palestinian territory, the crisis situation there is so disturbing that adults and Children don't die in war, they die because of lack of proper medical equipment and basic items like bandages.
Helplessness of medical aid workers
The news agency AFP wrote that the hospitals in the Gaza Strip that are still functioning to some extent, doctors and medical aid workers have to make decisions that would have been very painful for them. are
For example, a seven-year-old Palestinian child was seriously injured in an explosion and his body was badly burned.
But paramedics had to give up hope and efforts to save his life because they didn't even have enough bandages to bind the child's wounds.
The child's body was burnt to such an extent that his life could not be saved. But the constraint of the medical workers was that they could not even bandage his wounds.
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In addition, many injured patients die because the infection spreads in their bodies because the medical personnel do not have basic hygiene equipment, sometimes even soap.
These and many other tragic events are recounted by American doctors and nurses who recently returned to the United States after a relief mission in the besieged coastal strip of the Gaza Strip.
Allowing the delivery of aid to Gaza is essential
These American medical workers have now launched a regular campaign to tell the world what the reality of the troubled medical sector in the Gaza Strip is like, as they say Israel must be pressured to withdraw from the Palestinian territory. I allow the delivery of as many life-saving medical supplies as possible.
Adam Hamwi, a former US Army combat surgeon, recently returned to New Jersey after serving on a medical mission at a European hospital in the Gaza Strip.
The latest humanitarian crisis in the war-torn Gaza Strip
"Regardless of whether there is a ceasefire in the war in Gaza or not, we must send aid there on humanitarian grounds," he said in an interview with AFP.
And the higher the demand, especially for medical supplies, the more these supplies should reach there.
Dr. Adam Hamvi is a plastic surgeon specializing in the restoration of damaged or deformed parts of the human body. "Donate whatever you want, but if the borders of the Gaza Strip remain closed and aid is not allowed to reach the war-torn region, all efforts are in vain," he said.
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What is the relationship between the current situation and political ideas?
At present, 54-year-old Adam Hamvi has been volunteering in various war-torn and natural disaster-prone regions and countries for the past 30 years.
He also served in the city during the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, and in the Caribbean nation in the immediate aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
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Describing his experiences in the Gaza Strip during the war, Hamwi said, "The number and ratio of civilian casualties and injuries I witnessed there was unprecedented in decades."
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"Most of my patients in Gaza were children under the age of 14," emphasized Dr. Adam Hamwi.
What is the relationship between these children and anyone's political views? In my opinion, the work we did in Gaza was also very important. But it is equally important to tell the world how serious the medical crisis in Gaza has become at this time.
