Written by: Ahmed Gomaa Tuesday, October 31, 2023 06:00 PM
Stories from Gaza Today we discuss the story of Dr. Khalil Abu Mazen, a doctor at the Indonesian Hospital in the Gaza Strip, who talks to us about the challenges facing the health sector within the Strip in light of the lack of urgent medical needs.
Dr. Khalil Abu Mazen talks to “Youm7” about his day in light of this brutal Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, noting that doctors work long hours that may reach 96 consecutive hours without sleep or rest.
The Palestinian doctor described the situation inside Gaza hospitals in general and the Indonesian hospital in particular as “catastrophic,” stressing that the Israeli occupation army is committing massacres against the Palestinian people, with hundreds of casualties arriving at the hospital from all sides, with body parts spreading everywhere, including children, women, and the elderly. .
The Palestinian doctor describes the picture of the scene inside the Indonesian Hospital by saying: The situation is so catastrophic that the body parts of one person arrive to us in batches, half an hour apart from each other, and are dispersed between two or three beds… infants and children… young men and women… men, women and the elderly.
The Israeli occupation army committed more than 900 massacres against Palestinian families in all cities of the Gaza Strip, in addition to recording the martyrdom of nearly 8,500 martyrs and the injury of nearly 22,000 others in the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against Gaza.
The Palestinian doctor continued to describe the scene inside the Indonesian hospital in Gaza: Scenes of barefoot mothers running between the beds, checking on their loved ones whether they were alive or martyred… children crying in the hospital corridors… parents screaming for their children, perhaps one of them would respond with the phrase, “I am alive.” Scenes that are enough to create absolute absurdity in your mind.. An indoor shower that is completely different from the shower you see in front of you.
Regarding the biggest challenges facing doctors, the Palestinian doctor says: Perhaps the biggest challenge for me as a doctor is announcing the martyrdom of one of them to his family. I was very careful in choosing my words to them, trying to tell them in a way that touched their hearts. This scene is not instantaneous. This is the whole first day scene… literally every minute of it happened.
Regarding the most horrific massacres committed by the occupation army, their number and scenes of some of them, the Palestinian doctor says: I no longer remember any of the massacres. Our memory has become full and can no longer store or absorb anything new. Every new massacre removes from memory an old massacre to take its place in our heads. As usual, when we hear the sounds of ambulances and the sound of paramedics’ feet running in the hospital corridors, we run with heavy steps, as if tied with sandbags from fatigue, to the reception department to receive cases.
The Palestinian doctor describes the scene of cases arriving at the hospital seeking treatment, saying: A 10-year-old child was taken by paramedics to the reception department, suffering from lacerations in both of his legs… as if they were dough made of flesh, skin, and bone. Unfortunately for him, he is alive – so it is good luck here for him to be a martyr – it was The child, with a full degree of awareness, speaks to us normally.
The Palestinian doctor conveys the nature of the conversation that takes place between him and the injured child and says: During our dealings with him…Doctor, will I live?…Oh uncle…you will live, do not be afraid…Doctor, I have a little brother who is two months old…my mother used to prepare milk for him to breastfeed him, but… They bombed us and he did not breastfeed.. Oh my love, God willing, they will bring him back and he will be breastfed in the hospital. Do not be afraid.. Is he alive as a doctor? I heard him screaming when they came out from under the rubble, and within 5 minutes, the baby was one of the injured who came to our reception department.
The child continues his conversation with the doctor, saying: Doctor, this is my baby brother. The doctor replied: Don’t worry, he is fine. Praise be to God, and we made sure he was fine. The Palestinian doctor confirms that after checking on the child’s condition, the news of his mother’s martyrdom arrived, and one of the nurses asked for the child and took him into the living room. She called the nurses to breastfeed him, and she breastfed him and brought him out, adding: She recorded his name in full on a small piece of paper and kept it for herself.
Harsh scenes are being experienced by Gaza’s hospitals due to the Israeli occupation army’s targeting of some hospitals and their surroundings, which led to a large number of martyrs and wounded, more than 40% of whom were children and infants.
An injured Palestinian child in Gaza
Dr. Khalil Abu Mazen provides first aid to a child
Dr. Khalil Abu Mazen inside the hospital
2023-10-31 16:00:00
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