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Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the ‘nightmare’ of Gaza’s hospitals
The Associated Press ^ | October 21, 2023 | BY ISABEL DEBRE AND WAFAA SHURAFA

Posted on 10/21/2023 4:34:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The only thing worse than the screams of a patient undergoing surgery without enough anesthesia are the terror-stricken faces of those awaiting their turn, a 51-year-old orthopedic surgeon says.

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are nearing collapse under the Israeli blockade that cut power and deliveries of food and other necessities to the territory. They lack clean water. They are running out of basic items for easing pain and preventing infections. Fuel for their generators is dwindling.

“We have a shortage of everything, and we are dealing with very complex surgeries,” Abed, who works with Doctors Without Borders, told The Associated Press from Al Quds Hospital. The medical center is still treating hundreds of patients in defiance of an evacuation order the Israeli military gave Friday.

“These people are all terrified, and so am I,” the surgeon said. “But there is no way we’ll evacuate.”

Shifa Hospital — with a maximum capacity of 700 people — is treating 5,000 people, general director Mohammed Abu Selmia says. Lines of patients, some in critical condition, snake out of operating rooms. The wounded lie on floors or on gurneys sometimes stained with the blood of previous patients. Doctors operate in crowded corridors filled with moans.

The scenes — infants arriving alone to intensive care because no one else in their family survived, patients awake and grimacing in pain during surgeries — have traumatized Abed into numbness.

But what still pains him is having to choose which patients to prioritize.

“You have to decide,” he said. “Because you know that many will not make it.”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dontgiveashit; gaza; hamas; islamists; terrorists
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1 posted on 10/21/2023 4:34:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Stop killing Jews and the pain will stop.


2 posted on 10/21/2023 4:37:24 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluiids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’ll have much better care when they relocate to Qatar.


3 posted on 10/21/2023 4:38:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No anesthesia, no problem. Just hit them on the head with a club.


4 posted on 10/21/2023 4:40:14 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Whiskey would help!

😊👌

But Allah is FUBAR!

5 posted on 10/21/2023 4:40:48 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They should not have spent their money on killing Jews.


6 posted on 10/21/2023 4:40:50 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Stop blowing up your own hospitals morons.


7 posted on 10/21/2023 4:41:00 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Do all the patients get to keep their heads? Do they get set on fire while alive?

No?

Lucky.

8 posted on 10/21/2023 4:43:11 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They have 0bama Care!


9 posted on 10/21/2023 4:46:17 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whose side are the Palestinians on? Why do they allow Hamas free access to their territories? Has their government asked for international aid to get Hamas out of their country? Have they publicly condemned Hamas?


10 posted on 10/21/2023 4:49:02 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (He who lacks the will does not need the ability.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

IIRC——ISRAEL withdrew completely in 2005 from “Palestine/GAZA”.

They have continued to send in water-—fuel—food, etc every day....for supplies to evil persons.

EU gave GAZA $10 M-—TWICE-—to build water pipelines. HAMAS DUG UP THOSE PIPELINES & made CRUDE ROCKETS WITH THEM. CEMENT TO BUILD BUILDINGS WAS TAKEN INTO GAZA. IT AS USED TO BUILD TUNNELS UNDER THE SCHOOLS & HOSPITALS.

THERE IS NO “CIVIL” in their “CIVILIZATION”. NONE.

ISRAELI’s were foolish enough to allow over 20,000 “workers with “work visas” to come & go EVERY day. Turns out those ‘workers’ were spies for every detail down to “WHO HAS DOGS”, and house layouts, etc. THAT is why they were so successful on 10=7—2 weeks ago today.

“Palestine was offered a number of plans in the past 40 years. ARAFAT & ABBAS have rejected EVERYTHING. THE “population” voted for HAMAS TO REPRESENT THEM by over 80%.

THEY COULD HAVE CHANGED ALL OF THIS YEARS AGO.

MUSLIM TEACHINGS say that either you are Muslim-—or they will kill you.

IF the LAST 2 on earth are 1 MUSLIM & 1 “infidel”-—THE MUSLIM will kill the “infidel” & then have NO ONE to create food or shelter for the Muslim.

They are following teachings that are downright BIZARRE and they DO NOT WANT PEACE-—NOT AT ALL—NOT AT ANY PRICE. THEY WANT THE ENTIRE WORLD TO BE MUSLIM.

WE NEED ANOTHER ROUND OF THE CRUSADES.

WORST PART OF ALL-—TOO MANY NATIONS HAVE ALLOWED MUSLIMS TO INFILTRATE-—INCLUDING OBAMA.

DETROIT is GAZA/USA.

MINNEAPOLIS IS MOGADISHU/ GAZA USA.

I HOPE ISRAEL LEVELS the ground & all of Hamas. The Hamas “Leaders” do NOT even live there——THEY LIVE IN QATAR.

HOPEFULLY, Mossad can clean out those at the top—including inside IRAN.

BIDEN is so demented that this is happening now-—a new PRES WILL BE ALOT STRONGER.


11 posted on 10/21/2023 4:52:27 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: cpdiii

Is that how they stopped the murderous IRA terror back in the 70s? Did they resort to leveling Irish Catholic neighborhoods and wiping out guilty Irish Catholic school children?


12 posted on 10/21/2023 4:52:43 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Ben Mugged

NO NO NO-—THEY VOTED FOR HAMAS TO BE THEIR GOVERNMENT BY OVER 80%.

I HAVE ZERO SYMPATHY


13 posted on 10/21/2023 4:53:47 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ass Press.


14 posted on 10/21/2023 4:54:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not to mention the dozens of medical facilities that were nuked too.

🙏🇮🇱👍


15 posted on 10/21/2023 4:59:59 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

AP=Always Palestinian.
Hamas collaborators.


16 posted on 10/21/2023 5:00:53 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pro tip : Don’t invade or attack your host country, and stop killing everyone.


17 posted on 10/21/2023 5:00:56 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: cpdiii

Indeed. The “non-combatants” have my sympathies but I am quite confident that most, if not all of those “non-combatants” cheered, sang songs of praises to Allah, and were generally quite pleased when they heard the details of Hamas’ terrorist attack against the Jews.

So, how are they any different than the civilians that we bombed in Germany and Japan during WW2? Those non-combatants were equally supportive of the atrocities their militaries committed against other civilians, and they paid the price for it.


18 posted on 10/21/2023 5:02:49 PM PDT by Murder of Crows
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Associated Press is the propaganda wing of the US democrat party.

Trust NOTHING that the AP writes.


19 posted on 10/21/2023 5:04:05 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can’t believe any of this.

May have some truth, may have none, but we know they print narrative propaganda that can’t be believed.


20 posted on 10/21/2023 5:08:14 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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