The handy work of the evil Nut Job!

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British doctors Mohammed Tahir and Omar El-Taji thought they were mentally prepared to help treat people in Rafah. But what they and other foreign volunteers faced was beyond anything they could have imagined

Just a few days after arriving at a hospital outside Rafah in the Gaza Strip, Dr Omar El-Taji – a urologist who usually works in Manchester – was woken up at 2am to operate on an urgent case. “A man in his 30s was brought in after his entire building was bombed,” he says. “He had an open wound to his abdomen, his hand was falling off, and his ankles were completely mangled.”

The man was quickly taken into the operating room. “The shrapnel had completely sliced through him – I had never seen anything like it,” says El-Taji.

The patient survived the surgery, but died two days later after he went into renal failure due to sepsis as there was no dialysis available. “This would not have happened in a healthcare system that was adequately resourced,” he says.

El-Taji was part of a group of international doctors who spent three weeks in Gaza, operating under the umbrella of the World Health Organization. It has given them a first-hand look at a health system that has been shattered by Israel’s continuing offensive in Gaza, where two dozen hospitals are no longer operating.

The team of medical workers arrived at the European hospital near Khan Younis at the beginning of May with suitcases filled with essential items, including medication, surgical instruments, and boxes of Quality Street. “For the kids,” says El-Taji.

“I thought I was mentally prepared,” he says. “But what we witnessed in Gaza was beyond anything I could have imagined.”

About 36,000 Palestinians in Gaza have died since Israel started its military offensive last October, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. There have also been more than 400 reported attacks on healthcare facilities and personnel and, according to the ministry, at least 340 healthcare workers have been killed.

People leave carrying the limbs of their dead children in cardboard boxes

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... plnews_d-1

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Yep, that's what happens when you start a war and lose.

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Yep, that's what happens when you start a war and lose.

Yes, but we really don't know who started it.
The people that Nut Job is killing are not the people that started the war.

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Yep, that's what happens when you start a war and lose.

Yes, but we really don't know who started it.
The people that Nut Job is killing are not the people that started the war.

Hamas started the war

They put their people in harms way.

Sucks to be under hamas rule.

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The Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry released a statement condemning what it calls Israel's "genocidal massacres" in Rafah, according to a post on the Ministry's X on Wednesday.

"Saudi Arabia condemns and denounces in the strongest terms the continuous genocidal massacres committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people without deterrence by continuing to target the tents of defenseless Palestinian refugees in Rafah."

The statement comes in light of IDF airstrikes in Rafah, and the death of civilians in a humanitarian area due to fire. The international community has accused Israel of directly targeting the civilians.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-804118