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Days of Palestine
6 days ago
- General
- Days of Palestine
'Now, not tomorrow': Gaza hospitals plead for immediate blood units
DaysofPal- A severe lack of blood supplies and the increasing number of casualties are causing the Gaza Strip's healthcare system to collapse as a result of Israel's unrelenting attack. Medical professionals across Gaza have issued urgent appeals for the immediate entry of blood units and essential medical equipment, warning that patients are dying daily for lack of basic transfusion support. At the heart of the crisis is al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the largest and most severely impacted medical facility in the enclave. Its director, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, described the situation as catastrophic. 'We are completely unable to provide blood units for the wounded and sick,' said Abu Salmiya. 'Young men and women come to us to donate blood, only to discover that they need blood transfusions due to severe malnutrition.' He stressed the devastating toll this shortage is taking: 'We are losing a large number of wounded people every day due to the lack of blood units, amid a continuous and massive influx of casualties every minute.' 'We are asking nothing from the world except for the immediate entry of blood units into the Gaza Strip … now, not tomorrow.' The situation is no better across other hospitals in the Strip. Sahar Ghanem, director of the Medical Laboratories and Blood Banks Department, reinforced the desperate need for both blood and the equipment necessary to test, store, and transport it. 'We are facing a shortage of blood bank supplies in all hospitals in the Gaza Strip,' Ghanem said. 'Malnutrition has had a significant impact on the number of blood donors, yet people continue to donate whatever they can.' However, the limited pool of donors, many of whom are themselves anemic, has forced hospitals to break international health protocols. 'We're collecting blood even from donors who don't meet the necessary criteria,' she revealed. 'That includes donors who are anemic, which is medically prohibited, but we have no other choice.' She noted that supplies are rapidly consumed across major facilities such as Nasser Medical Complex, Al-Shifa Hospital, and other hospitals still functioning under extreme conditions. Ghanem called for the urgent import of blood units, blood bags, and testing and storage equipment, adding that the health of the population must also be improved through aid and nutrition so that more people can safely donate blood. Abu Salmiya reiterated this call during an interview with Al Jazeera, highlighting that many lives were lost not from the severity of wounds but simply due to the inability to provide transfusions. As the health system in Gaza teeters on the brink of total collapse, the Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that among the many people in urgent need of blood were those injured in the recent Israeli massacre in Rafah. At Nasser Hospital, officials issued a call for citizens to donate blood around the clock, stating that the scale of the ongoing Israeli bombardment had caused the facility to nearly run out of blood supplies altogether. Shortlink for this post:
Saba Yemen
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Hamas: Inte'l silence suspicious regarding Zionist enemy's horrific massacres in Gaza
Gaza - Saba: Hamas on Wednesday called on the international community to take urgent and serious action to stop the Zionist criminal campaign and deter the terrorist enemy from continuing to commit war crimes and ethnic cleansing against innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip, amid suspicious international silence. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the movement denounced the suspicious international silence regarding this genocide being perpetrated against civilians in the Gaza Strip. Hamas condemned the new brutal massacre committed by the terrorist enemy army, which targeted a large gathering of civilians in a restaurant in the center of Gaza City, killing and wounding dozens, including a large number of women and children. The movement called on the masses of the Arab and Islamic nation, and the free people of the world, to escalate the popular movement by all possible means, in support of the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and in rejection of genocide and starvation. It demanded that the enemy's leaders be held accountable as war criminals before international courts. The Zionist enemy army committed a massacre. A new bloody incident occurred Wednesday afternoon, when a restaurant and a popular market were simultaneously bombed in al-Rimal area, west of Gaza City, killing approximately 25 people and wounding dozens, including children and women. "Sanad News Agency" quoted eyewitnesses as saying that enemy warplanes bombed the Thai restaurant and a nearby popular market, killing 25 people and wounding more than 60. The area is densely populated. The martyrs and wounded were transferred to al-Shifa Hospital, where the scene was described as extremely difficult. The destroyed corridors were filled with the bodies of the martyrs, while there were insufficient medical supplies to treat the wounded, some of whom were described as in critical condition, amid a near-total collapse of the medical system due to the siege and ongoing bombardment. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (International)
