Medics recount their gruelling experiences on the ground undertaking humanitarian work amid Israel’s bombardment and a ground invasion where hospitals and medics as been targeted. A returning delegation is now pushing the European Parliament to act.
In September 2023, Palestinian paediatrician Hashem Hijji, had chosen to leave the safe confines of France and to return to help his community in the besieged enclave of Gaza., medical professionals like Hijji, part of non-profit PalMed that emerged in the same year have become used to facing extremely challenging circumstances amid a severe scarcity of
Amid the carnage, he had to move to the south, together with thousands of Palestinians. He reached Rafah, where he stayed 21 days to help the medical staff at the Kuwait hospital. It was Hijji’s first-hand experience of Israel’s intense bombing campaign, impacting him and others around who said they had never experienced such a scale of relentless, compared to ones dating back from 2009, 2012, to 2021.
“It's 30 years since I have been a humanitarian doctor: I was in Northern Syria, in Ukraine, in Africa, I never saw anything like this before,” Pitti said to journalists upon his return.As part of PalMed, he and his colleagues submitted to the French Authorities a list of children in dire need of medical treatment.
Albarqawi says some doctors including Mahmoud Shehada, Ghassan Abou Zhari, Adnan Albicher have been taken hostage by the occupying forces and remain missing. Albarqawi treated patients day and night without medical equipment, as all the orthopaedic devices he brought from France were exhausted within a single day's use.Amid the overcrowded emergency room, he had to operate amputations and cranial traumas on mostly women and children without anaesthesia.
“It’s been a month since I came back to France and, to be honest, I don’t sleep well. I wake up ten times at night and I don’t feel well. It’s not easy to see such things, even as a doctor. I see blood all the time, but here… it’s injustice, there is no justice.”
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