The horrific plight of children arriving in Gaza’s hospitals alone
Calligraphy Hospital south GazaTrauma nurse Elidalis Burgos is sitting with a lifeless body of one -year -old Khaled.
Like medical To treat his next victims, he asks who will take the baby to the morgue around his hurry. “Nobody,” he said. The doctors called him Khaled because he had no known family.
Mrs. Burgos is a 44 -year -old nurse from the USA Working in Gaza During the summer, he remembers the “surreal, extraordinary” experience of taking Khaled to the morgue, about 800 meters away. There, he placed him in a freezer full of other bodies.
“I found myself reading a little baby as you were trying to put it asleep,” he says Independent. “I continued to remind myself, you don’t sleep him. Not alive. It was terrible.”
Trauma nurse Elidis Burgos (Elidis Burgos) during a medical trip to Gaza during the summer
Khaled another injured Israel’s brutal military attack Recently in the lane that expanded to Gaza City. Hospitals are already fighting Treat a fluctuation in the victims of war Themselves were targeted Israel Defense forces (IDF). Doctors, Journalists and Help Employees They were all killed.
Israel He ordered mass evacuation from the City of Gaza and accompanied the orders heavily bombardment Hamas infrastructure of high -rise towers claimed to host. As the bombing concentrates in the city, IDF is trying to push the IDF, Palestinians to the southern region of El-Mawasi, which he has repeatedly bombed, despite his defined as a safe region.
Medicin Sans Frontiers said in a statement on Thursday that the expanding attack left the health system on the “threshold ve and threatened the closure of 11 out of 18 hospitals, partially working in the city of Gaza.
A wounded Palestinian child is waiting for treatment at the Kuwait Hospital in Kuwaiti Hospital in the Rafah in the Southern Gaza Strip (AFP through Getty Images)
It has already been destroyed by illness and famine, Children They come to these hospitals with increasingly terrible injuries and severe diseases, but no family or loved ones will support them Independent.
“I usually talk about these children – and two years and older children – I come without an adult,” he says.
“So literally only one child With terrible injuries, he is waiting to come to the theater for an operation. “
A displaced Palestinian girl walks next to a crater that remains behind an Israeli strike.
UN said this in May More than 50,000 children killed Or has been injured since Israel started military The campaign in Gaza in October 2023, which was triggered by the murder of more than 1,200 Israelis by Hamas on October 7.
According to the UN, acute malnutrition seriously affect younger populations, approximately 12,000 children under five years of age were found to have acute malnutrition in July, with more than 2,500 severe malnutrition, according to the UN. The World Health Organization says it is probably less predicted.
A report from the Palestinian Statistical Agency in April said that more than 39,000 children in Gaza have lost either one or both. The agency concluded that Gaza suffers from the greatest orphan crisis in modern history ”.
Speaking on the phone, Dr Hussein explains that children entered the operating room for critical and life -saving operations; His parents and their families either lost, injured or died.
A Palestinian Girl (AFP/Getty) at the Wreck after a strike on a night at Sheikh Radwan Health Center in the north of Gaza City (AFP/Getty)
One night in July, Dr Hussein remembers that a 12 -year -old girl came to the hospital that needs emergency esophageal repair.
“There were tubes from both lungs, feces, leaked with a torn abdomen. There was no one with him. He was pushed in the hallway and remained a kind of left. So you can imagine the fear and pain of this child.”
About three years old, another child had severe burns. During multiple visits to the bed to change his dressings, Dr Hussein once did not see an adult or relative with him.
“He wouldn’t be able to move there, he’s whining only for his father. This is the only thing he would do, or he says. “And I think I saw that child about three times, and when he always said the same thing. There was no one with him.”
President of Pediatri in Nasser Hospital, Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, Independent Children usually died in the hospital.
Palestinian Statistical Agency, up to 40,000 children lost one or two parents (AFP/Getty)
Burgos says that the treatment of lonely children is “widespread because the bombings are very large.”
“All families are deleted every time,” he adds.
In the Nasser Hospital, where many people lived to escape the Israeli bombardment, the corridors play with dozens of children who have no other place to go.
“Children in every corridor run to you to ask for food and water, Bur says Burgos. “I don’t know if they’re there with their families or on their own. But they’re everywhere.”
