Key takeaways:
- Medical staff at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza city are struggling to treat the hundreds of injured arriving everyday with limited supplies.
- Early Monday morning, Israeli warplanes struck targets across Gaza, including in areas where Palestinian civilians have been told to seek refuge.
- Abutaha said the situation was so dire that even water was not available, and medical staff are doing their best to help without the most basic equipment.
At the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza city, medical staff are struggling to treat the hundreds of injured arriving everyday with limited supplies. Naseralldin Abutaha, an emergency nurse at the hospital, described the conditions as “blood and dead bodies everywhere”. Abutaha, 21, said he was seeing as many as 200 patients everyday in a 12 hour shift, and often had to improvise with whatever was available, such as using shirts as tourniquets or cola to wash a cut.
Early Monday morning, Israeli warplanes struck targets across Gaza, including in areas where Palestinian civilians have been told to seek refuge. This follows a small aid shipment being allowed into the besieged Hamas-ruled territory. Fears of a widening war have grown as Israeli warplanes have struck targets in the occupied West Bank, Syria and Lebanon in recent days.
Abutaha said the situation was so dire that even water was not available. He said he was exhausted and emotionally drained, and could not cry anymore. “I can’t cry anymore,” he said.
Israel is widely expected to launch a ground offensive in Gaza following Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 rampage into southern Israeli communities. The situation in Gaza is dire, and medical staff are struggling to cope with the influx of injured patients. Abutaha said the staff are doing their best to help, but without the most basic equipment, it is a difficult task.
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