'Some health workers faint': A doctor in Gaza shares his story
Between overcrowded hospitals, a lack of equipment and food shortages, Dr. Mughaisib describes the harsh daily realities health workers face in Gaza in the video below.
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a day ago
- LeMonde
'Some health workers faint': A doctor in Gaza shares his story
Recently, Le Monde received a message from Gaza. It came from Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, a physician and deputy medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza for over 20 years. "Most of the days we eat just one meal, and this isn't a choice. [...] Some health workers sometimes even faint during their shift," the doctor said, currently in Al-Mawassi, in the south of the Palestinian enclave. Between overcrowded hospitals, a lack of equipment and food shortages, Dr. Mughaisib describes the harsh daily realities health workers face in Gaza in the video below.
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Photo shows 7-year-old child in Gaza, not dead teenager
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Back from Gaza, doctors question Europe's torpor: 'Do we still have any humanity left?'
While diving into his memories, Mehdi El Melali, a 33-year-old French emergency room doctor, paused, overcome with emotion. No words, he said, could truly capture the hellscape that is the Gaza Strip. He said he only spent three weeks there, from July 4 to July 25, 2024, on a mission organized by the Al-Rahma and PalMed Europe organizations. The violence of his account sharply contrasted with the context he spoke in, a gentle summer evening in a Paris café. "A part of me stayed back there, in a way," he said, apologizing. "I have trouble switching off." Like other European humanitarian workers, he has developed a profound sense of solitude. "You come back from there transformed," said orthopedic surgeon François Jourdel. The 54-year-old veteran physician completed his first field mission back in 1997, in Angola. Yet Gaza, he said, was unique: "The bombings are relentless and people cannot flee. The whole population is affected." He was far from the only medical professional to express such shock. In many respects, the situation created by Israel's assault on Gaza, which has gone on for 22 months, ever since the Palestinian group Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, has been unlike anything they had ever seen elsewhere.
