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Director Al Shifa Hospital announced this Saturday that they have no water, electricity or food. Friday night, Palestinian Red Crescent stated that it only has enough fuel to
Director Al Shifa Hospital announced this Saturday that they have no water, electricity or food. Friday night, Palestinian Red Crescent stated that it only has enough fuel to operate one hospital in the Gaza Strip, Al-Quds.
He Dr. Mustafa Barghoutihe commented after being asked about the collapse of the healthcare system.
Gaza’s health system has already collapsed due to two factors. Firstly, there are Israeli bombings of hospitals. But then there is the collective punishment of depriving these hospitals of all food, medicine, oxygen, electricity and fuel. Due to the lack of fuel, we have already lost one child, a baby in the incubator of Al Shifa Hospital. Another 39 will soon die. Al-Quds Hospital also lost power. On Friday, an Indonesian hospital had to work without electricity, so lamps had to be used to examine the surgical site. And they continue to get injured. This is a real medical disaster in the Gaza Strip.
He later added: “One of the problems we also face is that many of the injured have infected wounds and cannot be treated due to lack of medicine. Moreover, doctors told me that they had to do terrible things to save lives, such as amputating a man’s leg without anesthesia. This is intolerable and the Israelis don’t care.”
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti in conversation.
The Israeli military says it has ordered the evacuation of Al-Shifa Hospital. How can you evacuate a hospital with almost 5 thousand patients in Gaza?
He later responded.
There are not only wounded people who cannot walk, but also people wearing respirators. But there are no ambulances to transport them, because there are no roads for ambulances. Babies in incubators, as soon as you take them out of the incubator, they die. Patients in intensive care and coronary care units connected to ventilators die immediately. Israel tells the doctors they must leave, and the doctors respond, “We will not abandon our patients.” It would be a crime.
Hamas spokesman Khalil Al-Hayya said this. The newspaper “New York Times that the “whole equation” needs to change, rather than limit it to confrontation. Did the whole equation change after the October 7 attacks?
Yes, the equation has changed not in our favor. Against the Palestinians. And the Israeli establishment now dares to commit genocide and attacks on Palestinians, including these horrific atrocities. In front of the whole world, Biden and the British Prime Minister refused to agree to a ceasefire.
You say that “the equation has changed against us.” Do you think it was the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7 that turned the world against you?
No. The world is unfair to us in every way, no matter what happened on October 7th. Look: we have been subjected to Israeli ethnic cleansing since 1948. 75 years of ethnic cleansing. The United Nations passed a thousand resolutions demanding that Israel allow the return of refugees, end the occupation, stop building settlements, etc. None of this was done. None of this came to fruition.
“We tried military action – not me, I am for non-violent resistance. But overall, the Palestinians have tried military action. They attempted peace negotiations. They tried to reach an agreement with Israel. They tried nonviolent resistance. We’ve tried everything. And as a result, the Israeli establishment is committing more and more crimes against us. And many Western governments do not respect international law by continuing to support Israel. And then they blame the victim. They always blame the victim. This is unacceptable’.
In recent days we have heard Hussein al-SheikhSecretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbasand other senior PLO officials are talking about the possible return of the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip if, they say, there is a comprehensive solution for the Palestinians. Does such a scenario for the return of the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip seem feasible to you today?
They cannot take control of the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu wants to occupy Gaza. How could they take control? He wants them to work for him as his servants so that he is not responsible for the humanitarian needs of the population he occupies. He wants them to replicate what they are doing here in the West Bank. Here in the West Bank they have no power. The Israeli army invades all cities that should be under Palestinian control according to the Oslo Accords. We spend 40% of our budget on a security apparatus that cannot protect a single Palestinian child from Israeli aggression. So no, Netanyahu does not want to have power in the Gaza Strip. He wants a submissive government in the Gaza Strip.
Finally, he concluded.
“And the popularity of the Palestinian Authority is now at an all-time low due to its passivity, especially during the attack on the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority needs legitimacy, and it cannot be achieved without free and democratic elections. If elections had been held in 2021, which Israel opposed, we would not be in this situation today. Because if elections were held, neither Hamas nor Fatah would have a majority. Neither side could govern alone, either in Gaza or the West Bank. Today the situation would be different. And the Israelis couldn’t say that they couldn’t negotiate with Palestinian leaders because they didn’t represent everyone. What we need are free democratic elections to legitimize any Palestinian government. Before agreeing to submit to the Israeli occupation of Gaza.”
(according to information from RFI)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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