Messages from the occupied territories

My friend Mo was on May 19 this year when he wrote me from Gaza to me last. MO is usually a doctor who works 24 hours a day between the sleeps caught in a field hospital and in the tent near the beach. I checked him several times in the weeks before whatsapp. “I apologize for not being able to answer before,” he finally wrote. “To fight to stay as good as possible despite extremely challenging conditions and to do my best.”

On June 5 “Hello. How are you going?” And my new notes, bright blue ticks in the bright blue ticks and this morning with the notification that the last online, still in life, still did not answer. Mo once wrote long, lyric verses.

A joint statement in the occupied Palestinian territory published this week, Signed by 28 countries including Australia“The pain of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths”. Messages from my friends say that Gaza is dead.

My friend Randa, a cancer and palliative care nurse, wrote last week through Facebook Messenger: uz We are trying to hold on to life every day, but to be honest, it doesn’t feel like a survival.

Another friend, OMAR,* A public health doctor and teacher, “Only when the war is over, will the world know how big is the problem. Israelis do not fight, kill civilian people, they destroy everything, no red lines… Society has changed completely and disintegrated – beliefs, values, attitudes, traditions, everything… Unfortunately, we are upwards.

In recent weeks, About 1,000 people were shot and killed In the aid distribution areas carried out by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation supported by Israel and the United States, he is trying to secure flour bags to feed their families. UNRWA General Commissioner Philippe Lazzarini on July 11, Published on X:

Under our clock, #gaza became the cemetery of children and hunger. No way out. The elections are between 2 deaths: hunger or be shot. The most ruthless and Machiavelian plan to kill as a total of unpunished. Our norms and values are buried.

My friend Khamis, a neurorehabilitation doctor, sent a message on Saturday to the world leaders on Facebook – and all of us – urgent courage and action: “Most people in Gaza are dying !!!” “Since the early hours of this morning, I was looking for anything desperately to feed our family and to silence the cries of our children’s hungry stomachs. We have destroyed every market, every corner, every stop from every stop. And I cannot swear to Allah.

Famine reached disaster levels and protected anyone. A video on Instagram shows an old man waiting for the empty bucket to be full of food before collapsing on the food line and dying. Health workers drink salt water to protect energy to continue to treat their patients. Friends write, they prefer to be shot rather than starving.

At the same time, other new threats are added to the list daily, or Khamis’s recently in a voicemail, “a face of a way to kill in Gaza”.

On July 3 A Bomb of 230 kg Once upon a time, a creamy winter heating beverage with delicious sahlab, rose water and pistachio was left to El-Baqa Café, run by a 40-year-old family, a popular coastal recreation point I live in. Duzines by the Mediterranean Sea and dozens of coffee were killed and injured in a safe place that was not under military evacuation orders.

On the morning of July 12, the Israeli occupation forces published an official “reminder” to all Palestinians in Gaza for fishing or swimming. totally forbidden. The sea is the last breath for washing and cooling in intense summer heat and unhealthy living conditions, and it is a critical source of fresh food and livelihood during months of aid drowning. Any approach to the coastline is considered as a direct threat to be met with fatal force, and A citizen is asking“Will they prohibit the air later?”

Weekend, News Released From Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis A sudden, unprecedented person who is diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome. Guillain-Barré is a rare, life-threatening neurological condition that causes respiratory failure and death in the worst of rapid muscle weakness and in the worst cases. Normally, most people provide full improvement with accurate treatment and close monitoring, including intensive care, special blood treatments and rehabilitation. Gaza usually sees five Guillain-Barré cases annually, but this week only this week, probably due to bacterial infection-hepsia resort to severe malnutrition, vomiting and diarrhea. Primer therapies are not available. Some of them died of a 14 -year -old child.

Randa texted with a photo of a sick child, covered with medical tubes and lines. “My nephew has been newly diagnosed and now lies in the intensive care unit… and poisoning cases caused by the presence of contaminated nutritional supplements and intravenous fluids began to spread.” His nephew Mohammed is 11 years old.

Randa writes: orum I dream of seeing my children return to a normal life like other children in the world. I am trying to be strong for them, but I am tired. Many days quietly, broken, in front of our tears – losing our homes, losing their friends and schools, losing the streets once.

“And I have been exhausted as a nurse. Every day, I watch that my cancer patients cannot carry chemotherapy – their bodies are very weak. One, they die – they die – they are dying – starvation, lack of medication, access to treatment or fundamental pain relief.

Muhammad, a doctor specialized in child nutrition, said, “My 75 -year -old mother melts like a candle in front of my eyes and I can’t do anything for her.” He sends a cartoon that depicts a wounded family away from a newly closed grave. “Dead people are the only person surviving in Gaza during a daily genocide, or he says. “Now we are in extreme stress and exhaustion, our bodies are wasted and we will be exposed to certain death as a result of hunger and overcoming the ability of our bodies. Can you help us except to pray?”

I have nothing satisfactory to answer.

*Names have been changed to protect identities.