The International Committee of the Red Cross has announced that it is sending two teams of war surgeons into the Gaza Strip, along with enough equipment to set up a 50-bed surgical unit in the main hospital in the strip.
This is vitally needed in Gaza Strip, following two months of violent Israeli crackdowns on public protests along the border. 115 Palestinians were killed in these protests, and over 13,000 wounded. This includes an estimated 3,600 Palestinians hit with live ammunition.
Red Cross officials say they believe there are 1,350 patients who will need three to five operations each. They say the surgical needs of Gaza would overwhelm even the biggest hospitals in Geneva without help.
While Israel has tried to downplay the medical crisis, they also forcibly prevented several small ships from leaving the Gaza Strip earlier this week. Those ships were carrying large numbers of wounded passengers who were trying to get to Cyprus for medical treatment.
I bet the equipment will be prevented from being brought in.
Scalpel is a “dual use technology” could be used as a knife. Indeed Red Cross surgeon is even worse since they are trained in the use of those knives. Not to mention anesthesiologists who can kill you with chemicals. So sure IDF is going to try to prevent knife fighters and chemical warfare specialists from getting into Gaza. Of course the biggest import they are trying to prevent is hope. I suspect this hospital won[t get set up.
Even after all this time I still cannot comprehend how Israel can behave in this way with impunity, that Nikki Haley is an actual human being and that the USA is supported by other “Western” nations in the vicious cruelty against unarmed people just wanting a normal life in their own land.
When you control the American Congress (AIPAC) nothing else matters , you can literally get away with murder.
Hamas won a propaganda victory at the expense of much human lives and suffering. It is a terrible thing for a people to be in refugee camps for 70 years, but work out a deal with your enemies, whereby both sides gain a little bit. Rejectionism and rockets help no one, and with upcoming Iran conflict, neither Israelis nor Arab nations are overly concerned about Gaza