Gaza’s Iron Woman… Amira Al-Assouli, a doctor, braves sniper fire to help an injured person
Social media users circulated a video clip showing a doctor rushing, on Friday evening, to save a wounded man who had been shot in a tent in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis.
The video clip that was circulated on Saturday showed Dr. Amira Al-Assouli crossing the distance between the hospital door and the tent in which the injured person was lying, running, lowering her head to the presence of an Israeli sniper. A group of doctors followed her, and they were able to carry the injured person on a stretcher, and ran back with him to the hospital building.
Doctor Amira Al-Assouli (her Facebook page)
The obstetrician and gynecologist says, in another video clip, that she used to work at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, and that she is currently a volunteer at the hospital even though she retired early.
She adds: “Our mission has been known” since the time we graduated from college, and we swore to provide assistance to anyone in need. She continued: “May God remove fear from my heart. If I feel that there is a person in need of help, I will not think about myself.”
Amira Al-Assouli had left the Gaza Strip for Egypt to attend a conference and several training courses in August 2023, before the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7.
Al-Assouli returned to the Gaza Strip after the start of the war to participate in providing medical care to those wounded in the Israeli attack and bombing. Social media pioneers praised what the Palestinian doctor did, and gave her nicknames such as: the Iron Lady, the heroine of Khan Yunis, and the guerrilla doctor.
The Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War stipulates in its eighteenth article that “Civilian hospitals organized to provide care for the wounded and sick shall under no circumstances be attacked, and the parties to the conflict must respect and protect them at all times,” while it affirmed in the following article that it shall not be considered A harmful act is the presence of wounded or sick soldiers being treated in these hospitals, or the presence of small arms and ammunition taken from these soldiers and not yet delivered to the competent administration.
Despite what was stipulated in the agreement, the majority of hospitals in the Gaza Strip were damaged as a result of the Israeli bombing, which put most of them out of service. As the war in the Gaza Strip reaches its hundredth day, we review some of the damage to the medical system in the Strip.
On the evening of October 17, the National Arab Hospital (Baptist) in Gaza was bombed, killing 471 people, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Health in Gaza the next day. While Health Minister Mai Al-Kaila said, “The effects of the massacre are beyond description.”
Targeting Al-Baptist Hospital was the beginning of a series of targeting medical facilities, from small medical centers and clinics to Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip.
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2024-02-11 08:06:06
