Gaza City surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sitta has described the excruciating process of peforming procedures without anesthesia – often the only option to prevent wounds from becoming deadly.
“Especially when you do it with children, you feel that the pain that is being inflicted. But at the same time these wounds have to be cleaned,” he said.
Still, he said, “Ninety percent of what I do now is buying time for these patients until something happens – some miracle, some breakthrough, some ceasefire, or humanitarian corridor, anything.”
Evacuation is “not possible at all”, Abu-Sitta noted.
“There is machine gunfire going around the hospital all the time and there are still raids,” he said. “The streets are not safe. And we understand from the ambulance crews that deliver the patients that they get fired on regularly.”
“I’m trying to understand what the world is waiting for. I’m trying to figure out at what point does the world believe that it’s enough and that it is no longer acceptable in this day and age for this to be done to people.”
Source: AlJazeera
