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How Common Are These Gaza Tragedies?
AlArabiya English
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2 months ago
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00:00
Yeah, and you're right to point out that we're not talking about numbers, we're talking about human beings.
00:04
It even helps sometimes to give them an identity.
00:07
I was reading about a 17-year-old boy, his name is Taisir Mansour, living in constant pain.
00:14
He's been in pain for a year.
00:16
He suffered severe burns when an Israeli missile struck his home, destroyed his home, killed his mother, injured his siblings.
00:25
His situation is now getting worse every day, we're told, because he hasn't got adequate access to medical care.
00:32
Both his hands might now need to be amputated, and at the same time, he's got limited access to food and medicine.
00:38
I mean, it's a horrific series of events.
00:43
How common is that kind of a story, do you think?
00:46
You know, sadly, this story isn't just heart-wrenching by itself.
00:52
The sad reality is that this is not a unique case, it is not an exception.
00:58
I have interviewed dozens of children myself inside Gaza, children who are severely ill, children who have been severely injured in bombardments,
01:07
who have been lucky enough to survive the airstrike, but then are unable to access the medical care that they need,
01:16
because of the stress that the health system is under, hospitals themselves have been turned into battle zones.
01:24
They face very severe shortages of medicines, and there's just this constant flow of severely injured people day in, day out.
01:34
I also want to point out that we're talking about injured children, injured civilians,
01:40
but the reality is that injured doesn't really cover the extent of the injuries that people have very often.
01:50
I've seen children who've had their limbs amputated.
01:53
I've seen children who've been burned on very large parts of their bodies.
01:57
We're not just talking about a couple of scratches.
02:00
We're talking about children who will likely have to cope for the rest of their lives with their injuries.
02:06
So, sadly, this is a common reality for children and their parents in Gaza.
02:13
It's the daily struggle of the doctors and the nurses who try to save people's lives without having the means to do so, really.
02:22
This is also why it's important that more countries in the world take in severely injured patients from Gaza
02:33
and severely ill patients with pre-existing medical conditions.
02:38
The hospital system needs to be rehabilitated, but until that's the case, people risk dying right now.
02:46
They're dying in waiting.
02:47
They can't afford to wait.
02:50
So, it's important that more people from the Gaza Strip, especially child patients, can get medically evacuated.
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