Atrocity is piling on to atrocity at a level unlike anything we have ever seen
A Palestinian woman reacting to the bodies of people killed in an Israeli strike at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 17th. Photograph: Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Imagesunilaterally declared as “humanitarian” while regularly attacking it. Our colleagues say the situation is even worse in the north of Gaza – an area which we couldn’t access. It is a nightmare.
Until recently several of our own colleagues and their family members were still trapped in these districts. Two of them are still unable to flee. They are terrified and fear for their lives, and with good reason: on October 10th our colleague Nasser Hamdi Abdelatif Al Shalfouh was tragically killed by shrapnel injuries to his legs and chest in Jabalia. On October 14th a Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders physiotherapist and his son were injured by shrapnel.
On October 22nd one of our medical staff found shelter inside besieged Kamal Adwan hospital, and described the situation inside as disastrous, with an overwhelming number of patients and a critical lack of supplies. This was before the hospital was attacked and stormed by Israeli forces between October 25th and 28th, then repeatedly bombed over the last weeks.
People in Gaza are asked to make an impossible choice between staying, in defiance of the evacuation orders, being assimilated to legitimate targets and killed, or prevented from meeting basic needs; or leaving and risking their lives, be it during their trip or at the new destination. All Gaza crossing points have been closed since May 2024.” or “Eiland Plan” within the Israeli forces.
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