Posted on 10/23/2023 9:42:30 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A premature baby squirms inside a glass incubator in the neonatal ward of al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip. He cries out as intravenous lines are connected to his tiny body. A ventilator helps him breathe as a catheter delivers medication and monitors flash his fragile vital signs.
His life hinges on the constant flow of electricity, which is in danger of running out imminently unless the hospital can get more fuel for its generators. Once the generators stop, hospital director Iyad Abu Zahar fears that the babies in the ward, unable to breathe on their own, will perish.
“The responsibility on us is huge,” he said.
Doctors treating premature babies across Gaza are grappling with similar fears. At least 130 premature babies are at “grave risk” across six neonatal units, aid workers said. The dangerous fuel shortages are caused by the Israeli blockade of Gaza, which started — along with airstrikes — after Hamas militants attacked Israeli towns on Oct. 7.
At least 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza are unable to access essential health services, and some 5,500 are due to give birth in the coming month, according to the World Health Organization.
At least seven of the almost 30 hospitals have been forced to shut down due to damage from relentless Israeli strikes and lack of power, water and other supplies. Doctors in the remaining hospitals said they are on the brink. The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Sunday it has enough fuel to last three days to serve critical needs.
“The world cannot simply look on as these babies are killed by the siege on Gaza ... A failure to act is to sentence these babies to death,” said Melanie Ward, chief executive of the Medical Aid for Palestinians aid group.
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Hand over the hostages for some jugs of Diesel.
Gee maybe should have thought of this before voting for the Hamas animals to run Gaza.
Maybe these people should have thought “How we can build a successful, tolerant, pluralistic, democratic society like the Israelis have done next door?” rather than “How can we exterminate all Jews?”
They have fuel for rockets, but no fuel for hospital generators?
Don’t care.
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Kuwait has good hospitals.
The Gazans will be much healthier there.
Well, I’m sure Hamas can take care of their babies just as horribly as they did be Jewish babies.
Perhaps the Gazans should have thought about the consequences of electing known terrorists to run their government.
How about consolidating all of them in one hospital and give that hospital all of the remaining fuel. But then Hamas wouldn’t have a chance to wave the bloody flag about the situation.
Something like 70 per cent of the population in gaza is under 30. They didn’t vote for Hamas.
Plenty of fuel available. Just drain it from some of the rockets stored in the basement.
How long have you been a Jewish genocide supporter?
Did you start before or after the beheading of Jewish babies at the hand of Hamas or did the recent inhumane rapes and murder only help to increase your support for the Palestinian monsters who revel in such inhuman torture and death?
I think that there is a meme that says: "Sorry, my give a damn meter is broke."
These people are ruled by a group of awful, awful human beings, if they even qualify as such.
Might want to think long and hard about attacking the nation
who is feeding you before you pull more stunts like this
last one.
Water, gas, electricity...
Eh then again, why not attack that party? What could go wrong? /s
“without Mom & Dad?”
Bump!
Hamas? Smoke em
check your desert storm bingo cards..was babies in incubators already used?
I make the observation that most of the people in Gaza weren’t old enough to have voted for Hamas and that means I support genocide?
You’re kinda nuts, huh?
No, you are trying to present a lie, your observation was intended to have others believe that the population in Gaza do not support Hamas, this is an utter and disgusting lie.
They absolutely support and are cheering Hamas on, try looking up who they really are and what the average Palestinians Muslim or “Christian”believe. What you tried to imply is a horrible deception that only serves to allow those people to further their atrocities!
Yes there are exceptions within the population but they are few and few between and usually end up seriously oppressed or dead at the hands of the majority there. As a whole the average citizen in Gaza wants the extermination of Israel. So ya I believe you support their atrocities or are wildly ignorant of the truth, either is offensive at this stage given it provides aid to the monsters who beheaded babies.
What I said was factual.
The last ‘election’ in Gaza was in 2006.
79 per cent of the population in Gaza is under 30.
The post I responded to said they get what they voted for.
The majority were not old enough to vote in 2006.
Simple.
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