Doctors at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital are pleading for help as the medical facility has ceased functioning after its power failed over the weekend amid an Israeli siege. The medical staff has refused to evacuate the hospital due to fears that the approximately 700 hundred patients they would leave behind will die.
Among the at-risk patients are newborn and premature babies who were taken off incubators due to the power outage. Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati, al-Shifa’s head of plastic surgery, told ABC News that three out of 39 babies in the hospital’s neonatal unit have died since the incubators stopped working on Saturday.
Dr. Shireen Noman Abed, a neonatologist, said she expects all the babies to die due to a lack of clean water to mix formula with. “Most of them are pre-term babies who need incubators, who need electricity, who need special food, who need care,” she said. “We expect all to die because they don’t have water to prepare [formula] for them.”
The three babies who died were among the 32 patients Gaza’s Health Ministry said lost their lives in the past three days due to power outages and Israeli siege. Israel is justifying its attack on the hospital by claiming a Hamas command center is underneath the facility, a claim strongly denied by Hamas and hospital staff.
“The tanks are in front of the hospital. We are under full blockade. It’s a totally civilian area. Only hospital facility, hospital patients, doctors and other civilians staying in the hospital. Someone should stop this,” Mokhallalati said, according to Reuters.
“They bombed the (water) tanks, they bombed the water wells, they bombed the oxygen pump as well. They bombed everything in the hospital. So we are hardly surviving. We tell everyone, the hospital is no more a safe place for treating patients. We are harming patients by keeping them here,” he added.
The medical charity Doctors Without Borders put out a press release on Monday after getting in contact with one of its surgeons in al-Shifa. The surgeon detailed the situation at the hospital.
“We don’t have electricity. There’s no water in the hospital. There’s no food. People will die in a few hours without functioning ventilators. In front of the main gate, there are many bodies. There are also injured patients; we can’t bring them inside,” the surgeon said. “When we sent an ambulance to bring the patients—a few meters away—and they attacked the ambulance. There are injured people around the hospital looking for medical care. We can’t bring them inside. There’s also a sniper who attacked patients, they have gunshot wounds. We operated on three of them.”
The surgeon said the medical staff needs a guaranteed safe corridor to evacuate the hospital because some people who tried to leave were killed. “Inside Al-Shifa Hospital, there are injured patients and medical teams. If they give us guarantees and evacuate the patients first, we will evacuate,” the surgeon said.
If the Israeli administration allows the babies to die,what good could the proposed prisoner exchange be? Biden has the power to pick up his phone and tell Israel to let those babies live. Ike was able to stop a conflict just by telephoning the parties and demand that they stop. Biden is no Eisenhower, of course.
He can’t risk that. AIPAC my drop their support for some random Democrat they have bribed in a swing state and ole’ Joe doesn’t want that.
Biden is closer to Trump or Andrew Johnson then being compared to Ike who had some flaws as they all do but did not wantonly murder people because of a various number of sins.. The real culprits are alive and well in the Board rooms of our Blood sucking defense department and the disgustingly corrupt halls of Congress plus the Zioinistsc and Fascists in AIPAC.
the disgustingly corrupt halls of Congress
Isn’t that where Biden is from.. He would spend 36 years in the U.S. Senate and during that time, “he was the chamber’s biggest recipient in history of donations from pro-Israeli groups, taking in $4.2 million, according to the Open Secrets database.”
I agree with your assessment of Ike. He is responsible for giving the green light for the coup in Iran in 1953.
Likud do not care if Palestinians die, they celebrate.
Much like Auschwitz guards did.
Exactly.
The most moral army since the Waffen SS!
Israel is so nice. They want all Palestinians to die, even Palestinian babies. on. oxygen. inside. hospitals.
And if you point this out, they’ll make sure you lose your job. And if the Christian-Zionists had their way you’d get tossed in prison as well.
Or get celestially discharged and AMEN.
It’s those babies that are the existential threat to the Zionist project.
Meanwhile in Washington DC, traitors bribed by AIPAC are figuring out how the US can enable Israel to kill the rest of Gaza’s babies. Here’s a convenient list of the psychos so you never accidentally vote for one of them again https://candidates.aipacpac.org/page/featured/
Quiet a hit parade you have assembled.When the public votes in 2024 it will be interesting to see just how many of these public{sic} servants lose their seats. My prediction is none.
You are probably right, but even if a couple get voted out of office that may be enough to induce gridlock on the system. I am done with trying to vote for the best candidate, now I vote for whoever is taking the federal government toward collapse. 2020 election deniers are a decent pick, because while I disagree with their premise, they are calling the legitimacy of the federal government into question which is good. The same goes for the “USA founded on racism” crowd since they are also questioning the national government’s legitimacy, albeit indirectly. Of course any of the AIPAC stooges are disqualified; we still don’t need to support traitors.
The “best” candidates do not have the financial connections that the worst have.
WE have a lot of work to do in order to fulfill your objective which IMHO is worth doing. It is probably the only way we survive the crackdown that is coming. None of the canidates that has raised their head is anything close to a solution.
This indeed is a war crime for the ages.if a World War emerges from this lunacy and everyone on the planet is dead when the major powers get involved it will be the biggest mistake ever committed by mankind. I think it may be 50-50.
Unfortunately, as Norman Finkelstein said in his interview by Chris Hedges, nothing will be done. He asked if anyone remembered Cast Lead or Protective Edge. Nothing was done. They were forgotten. He reserved the same thoughts about the current situation.
Gold: You seem angry at something or somebody.
Just the traitors in DC who serve a foreign government instead of the people who elected them.
Israel is so nice. They put the word “refugees” in Palestinian refugees. They put the word “genocide” in Palestinian genocide.
…What’s that? We want some credit for “genocide?” …Okay, I will add, “with our money.” …Satisfied?
Looks like the ideal situation, for the post natal reproductive rights crowd/clique into aborting out babies to save the planet while achieving net zero c02.
Move over Nazis. In the annals of cruelty this beats anything. We have a new depth of evil, morality tale.
this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIX368TtOJs The good Rabbi has been censored.
Completely agree. The same claim could be made for the Germans; and, now the US and Euro populations. The trouble is always the great central mass of the Bell Curve. They are invincibly susceptible to, and inculpable for, the narrative of Authority which in bourgeois society means The Blessed Long Green.
Right, Zionism is not Judaism and the Semitic People are mostly non Jews.
This is clearly ethnic cleansing at baby level…! But, Israel forgot that there are 70 million displaced Palestinians all over the world that can resist Israel in the future…!
How is the US government supposed to talk about “human rights” for the next 50 years without being laughed at by the rest of the world?
They’ll threaten to bomb and or imprison you if you go against them. Like they always do
Doctors at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital are pleading for help as the medical facility has ceased functioning
right then. would anyone even be allowed to come to their aid?
This is the result of America’s failure to uphold International Laws and to STOP the aiding/arming of Terrorist States like Israel, who has never abided by International Laws. The Democrats are the Party of killing babies in the womb and the Republicans are the Party of murdering babies outside of the womb. Do NOT vote or support these Parties, who have exposed themselves as being Zionist Supporters, NOT supporters of our Constitution.
A few days after the war on Gaza began, some how a old man appeared on my device Saying “Erase the children” later identified as “A veteran of Israeli wars” I wll try to find this clip and see what I can find out..
“The Horror, The Horror” in Gaza. Chris Hedges. What Is the UN Good for? Where Is the Human Rights Commission When It Is Needed?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/horror-gaza-what-un-good-where-human-rights-commission-when-needed/5839831
Israel and Washington’s cynicism is breathtaking. There are no differences in intent. Washington only wants it done quickly. Humanitarian corridors? Pauses in the shelling? These are vehicles to facilitate the total depopulation of northern Gaza. The handful of aid trucks allowed through the border at Rafah with Egypt? A public relations gimmick. There is only one goal – kill, kill, kill. The faster the better. All Biden officials talk about is what comes next once Israel has finished its decimation of Gaza. They know Israel’s slaughter will not end until Gazans are living in the open without shelter in the southern part of the strip and dying because of a lack of food, water and medical care.
Does any of this qualify as a human rights issue? Maybe time to work the phones and kick up a bit of a ruckus…