An official with the United Nations’ humanitarian affairs company decried the sorry state of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza, describing what she noticed as “absolute carnage.”
Gemma Connell with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) instructed the BBC that there have been many injured with “extremely severe wounds but (who) cannot be treated because there are so many people in front of them in the line for surgery, and the hospital is absolutely overloaded.”
“Tragically I saw a 9-year-old boy with a devastating head injury who passed away,” Connell was quoted as saying Tuesday.
The Gazan Health Ministry had reported related conditions earlier Monday in a press release. Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra stated that the mattress occupancy price at operational hospitals within the southern Gaza Strip stands at 350%.
He added that medical groups had been unable to deal with the entire injured arriving on the hospitals whereas noting they had been coping with forms of accidents they’d not seen in earlier wars.
Israel’s military has stepped up its brutal struggle on Gaza to supposedly root out the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
The indiscriminate assault has killed over 20,600 individuals have been killed to this point within the newest struggle with over 250 deaths within the final 24 hours, based on the Gazan Health Ministry.
Source: www.dailysabah.com