2y ago

Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the ‘nightmare’ of Gaza’s hospitals

Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the 'nightmare' of Gaza's hospitals

The state of Gaza's hospitals: Surgeries without anesthesia and with only mobile phones for light. Vinegar from the corner store as disinfectant. 5,000 patients in a hospital built for 700, some sleeping on the floor. No power, no clean water, little fuel.

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2y ago

Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the 'nightmare' of Gaza's hospitals

apnews.com /article/palestinian-health-care-doctor-israel-bombing-gaza-siege-hospital-63d00d907f5469c81f49c0201801c997

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A tragedy
- Vinegar as disinfectant and surgeries without anaesthesia is a whole other horror. It hurts trying to imagine what that's like, for the patients and the medical staff that are helping
  
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- Genocide
- surely is
This is the best summary I could come up with:
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The only thing worse than the screams of a patient undergoing surgery without enough anesthesia are the terror-stricken faces of those awaiting their turn, a 51-year-old orthopedic surgeon says.
If more aid doesn’t come in, I fear we’ll get to the point where going to a hospital will do more harm than good,” Mehdat Abbas, an official in the Hamas-run Health Ministry, said.
When Israel cut fuel to the territory’s sole power plant two weeks ago, Gaza’s rumbling generators kicked in to keep life-support equipment running in hospitals.
At Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis this week, nurses and surgical assistants held their iPhones over the operating table, guiding the surgeons with the flashlights as they snipped.
At Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest, where Abed also worked this week, the intensive care unit runs on generators but most other wards are without power.
The scenes — infants arriving alone to intensive care because no one else in their family survived, patients awake and grimacing in pain during surgeries — have traumatized Abed into numbness.
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Horrific. The perpetrators should be held to the same account.
So release the hostages you fucking psychopaths! Want power from Israel? Step one, don’t murder their babies. Step two, don’t take hostages.
- Hmmm you almost make it sound like a small group of militants killing civilians is justification for this fucking nightmare hospital.
  Is it really worth it? Or course it is when you don't value Palestinians as humans.
  
  Small group? It's their government. It's far from a small group. I guarantee you they also have plenty of medical supplies, fuel, and food stored up in their terror tunnels. Of course they're not sharing any of it with their civilians.
  
  small group of militants, yes, but security camera videos showing non-uniformed Gazans joining the carnage on Israeli villages shows that it's not an "isolated incident"
  
  Almost 70% of Gazans support armed attacks on Israeli civilians. This isn’t a tiny minority of psychopaths. It’s the majority.
- This "conflict" didn't start on October 7th. Israel instigated this with a generation of apartheid and colonialism.
- Except the person you're responding to didn't mention 40 beheaded babies. They mentioned murdered babies. And yes, Hamas/Islamic Jihad did murder babies. There are pictures.
  Snopes:
  So, given that infants were indeed among victims killed in the violent attack, why does it matter if they died by beheadings or another way?
  Let's be honest, you're probably too far down the rabbit hole given your callous comment. But for those reading, stay critical of any claims or counter claims, and be careful to avoid the pitfall of cognitive dissonance.
  Condemning Hamas doesn't mean you can't support innocent Palestinian civilians who are suffering. Condemning Israel war crimes, doesn't mean you can't also condemn the murder of innocent Israelis. The situation isn't black and white.
Well, don’t declare war on a country that you are dependent upon for all your resources and then expect its help.
- And by dependent upon them for resources you mean it's an apartheid state that locked 2 million people up in an open air prison and has total control over their water and resources.
  
  They border Egypt. Surely their fellow Muslims would help them and not lock them out.
- It's so strange how people do some mental gymnastics to think that Israel is completely justified in all of their prior and current crimes against humanity.
  Heck, the freakin hostages and Israelies in hospital in Israel have publically ridiculed the government and the army, hence Netanyahu is bunkered down hasn't visited anyone.
  
  Apparently he went to visit the troops for a photo op, and they booed him.
  
  My take on it is that many of the people in the Palestinian territories have a backwards culture where women are relegated to home life and queer people are to be hung. This isn’t just a small pocket of their communities. These are the people in charge. They don’t just want land. They want to eradicate cultures that are different from theirs. Many peace talks occurred over the past half-century, but they always end because the Palestinians just want to get rid of Jews and anyone that doesn’t submit to their narrow worldview. These shitty people allow their leaders to shoot rockets at Israeli cities. They could come to amicable agreements, but don’t. This is what causes the apartheid-like conditions. They did it to themselves. They then decided to let their leaders declare war and are not paying the price. The bad guys are filling their homes, that they know are targets, with women and children. Many people use Islam to justify monstrous actions. They think that all other ways of life are an affront to their beliefs. If the people of Gaza want to continue to exist, they need to get rid of their terrorist government.
- Palestine didn't declare war . . .
  Big brain take right here
  
  Hamas is the government of the Gaza Strip. They declared war. The Gaza Strip is now a war zone because the people in charge started a war.
- It's almost like they were forced to be dependent on that country and never wanted it in the first place
- "dependent on" is a funny way to spell "occupying you"
- Palestinians are not Hamas.

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