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Gaza’s Hospitals Face ‘Impossible’ Choices With Israel Evacuation Order [1]

['Raja Abdulrahim', 'More About Raja Abdulrahim']

Date: 2023-10-15

Hundreds of people injured in Israeli airstrikes are streaming into hospitals in Gaza, transported by overfilled ambulances and sharing bloodied gurneys at the entrances. Workers and bystanders rush to carry the victims inside, where only the most critically wounded are allowed to stay, and the rest are sent home.

On Friday, Israel ordered hospitals in northern Gaza — along with more than one million Palestinians — to evacuate and flee southward before an anticipated Israeli ground invasion of the territory. The order has created for patients and their caretakers an impossible dilemma: stay or go.

“It’s absolutely impossible to evacuate the hospital,” said Dr. Muhammad Abu Salima, the director of Gaza City’s Al Shifa Hospital, the territory’s largest medical complex. “There is nowhere in Gaza that can accept the number of patients in our intensive care unit or neonatal intensive care unit or even the operating rooms.”

“If someone doesn’t die from the bombardment, then he’ll die from the lack of medical service,” he said.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/world/middleeast/israel-gaza.html

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