Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the 'nightmare' of Gaza's hospitals
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In the besieged Gaza Strip, hospitals are nearing collapse as doctors work under the most trying conditions. Medical supplies are dwindling and fuel is running out even as the death toll is mounting and hospitals are overflowing with more patients than they can handle.

The state of Gaza’s hospitals: Surgeries without anesthesia and with only mobile phones for light. Vinegar from the corner store as disinfectant. 5,000 patients in a hospital built for 700, some sleeping on the floor. No power, no clean water, little fuel.

  • porkinsEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    They border Egypt. Surely their fellow Muslims would help them and not lock them out.

    • ???@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Why should they undergo ethnic cleansing and forced removal from their homeland to Egypt? Why can’t Israel just treat them like human beings instead?

      Egypt has already accepted many many many Palestinian refugees, and it knows that if those Gazans cross over, Israel will lock them out and never allow them back in.

      I don’t like the Egyptian president but at least they have been diplomatic and insistent on getting humanitarian aid into Gaza.

      Surely their fellow Muslims would help them and not lock them out. What on earth does this have to do with anything? You know there are plenty of Palestinians and Egyptians that are Christians, Jews, and atheists, right?

      What kind of shitbag do I have to be to only help people of my own religion and ethnicity. Pathetic.

      Oh wait, isn’t that what Israel is basically? An ethnostate?

      • porkinsEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago
        1. Muslim: Around 90-95% of the population. 2. Christian: Approximately 1-2% of the population. 3. Other or non-religious: The remaining 2-9% of the population.

        I agree that ethnostates are not a good thing, but that is clearly what Palestine is, hence their ridiculous bullshit. Israel is a least making an attempt at being non-denominational in government. It is a safe haven for Jews, but it does not have a national religion and is careful to not make laws that raise one religion over another. The current administration is less tolerant of those rules and isn’t that great, but the conflict has been around longer than them. The whole homeland argument is so outdated. The Jews got pushed out by them many years prior. It’s been a back and forth for centuries. They need to share, but the Palestinians are mostly Muslim and are assholes. They are responsible for causing violence instead of brokering peace. They started a war on there home turf. They are the reason people are getting killed. Are you denying that they launch rockets are Israel from within their civilization areas because that shit’s well documented.

        • ???@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          but that is clearly what Palestine is,

          I think you don’t understand what ethnostate means.