The war between the terrorist group Hamas and Israel is claiming new lives every day. There have been many civilian casualties in airstrikes in recent weeks, especially in the densely populated Gaza Strip. Parents have now started writing their children’s names on their bodies, doctors report.
This is intended to simplify identification in the event of an emergency, doctors from Al-Aqsa Hospital reported to the American broadcaster CNN.
“We have had some cases where parents wrote their children’s names on their legs and stomachs,” said Abdul Rahman Al Masri, head of the emergency department, explaining the relatively new phenomenon.
Parents don’t want to lose their children
He said parents were concerned that “anything could happen” and that no one would be able to identify their children. Time and time again, even the youngest children in the Gaza Strip are seriously injured or killed by collapsing buildings.
News agency AFP also published images of the procedure:
The head of the clinic, who did not want to be named, told CNN: “Many of the children are missing, many arrive here with broken skulls and it is impossible to identify them. Only through this letter can they be identified .”
Reports of operations without narcotics
Leo Cans, a representative of Doctors Without Borders, reported that hospitals in the Gaza Strip are now running low on medical reserves. This leads to surgical procedures being carried out “without the correct dose of narcotics, without the correct dose of morphine”.
“As far as pain management is concerned, that doesn’t happen. Currently we have people undergoing surgery without morphine. This just happened to two kids,” Cans said. “We unfortunately have many children who are among the injured, and I spoke to one of our surgeons who yesterday operated on a 10-year-old with burns up to 60 percent of the body surface, and he ended up running out of painkillers.” independent This claim cannot be made.
A supply chain for the needy population is now in place. A third convoy of 40 trucks began entering the transit zone of the shared border from Egypt on Sunday to bring urgently needed international aid to the Palestinian territory, the Egyptian Red Crescent said.
The UN demands 100 trucks per day
The quantities remain very low compared to the actual needs in the Gaza Strip, where more than two million people live. Even before the start of the war, 60 percent of the population there was dependent on humanitarian aid from the Palestinian aid organization UNRWA. The UN estimates that approximately 100 truckloads of aid are needed every day to provide basic relief.
Source: Krone
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