Trapped in Rafah, U.S. medical volunteers say they can't save lives and can't evacuate (www.npr.org)
from jeffw@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 14 May 2024 01:19
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autotldr@lemmings.world on 14 May 2024 01:20 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:

AMMAN, Jordan — When Zain Abu Obeid died on Sunday at the last functioning hospital in Rafah, there was no one to collect the 7-year-old boy’s body from the morgue.

He had been injured in an Israeli airstrike that killed his entire family, according to members of a U.S. medical team trapped at the European Hospital following Israel’s closure of the nearby border crossing.

The only light is coming from outside," Dr. Ammar Ghanem, vice chair of the Syrian American Medical Society, said in a video that he filmed on Monday and sent to NPR.

Israel has told civilians to evacuate Rafah — where 1.3 million people who’ve fled fighting in other parts of Gaza have been crammed up against the Egyptian border.

According to the World Bank and the U.N., seven months of fighting has destroyed most of Gaza’s infrastructure and the imported fuel runs everything from hospital ventilators to bakery ovens.

Johnston, in a phone interview from the hospital, talked of flies infesting the operating room and the intensive care unit.

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blahsay@lemmy.world on 14 May 2024 06:06 collapse

Plenty of warning given to evacuate. Why stay and complain you can’t evacuate? Weird

Lath@kbin.earth on 14 May 2024 06:43 next collapse

Think of it like this:

  • the other party has a known history of shooting anything that moves
  • as medical volunteers they went there to treat the wounded, many of which are likely unable to evacuate, and they lack the resources needed to at least get them moving
  • abandoning the wounded pretty much defeats the purpose of them going there in the first place
nutsack@lemmy.world on 14 May 2024 12:32 next collapse

move your whole family and pets and everything in that short amount of time. nevermind that house was your retirement, and your children’s future. you now have no money and no job and no home. leave everything you own. your entire lineage is now homeless.

I don’t think staying is weird. I think most Americans would do the same.

prole@sh.itjust.works on 14 May 2024 12:50 collapse

Evacuate to where exactly?

This is not a rhetorical question. Literally, where will you have them evacuate to and how?

mightyfoolish@lemmy.world on 15 May 2024 01:29 collapse

They want them to evacuate to the desert and die of starvation or dehydration. They won’t say the quiet part out loud because they think they are smarter than the rest of Earth’s population.