Gaza City medics describe hospital overwhelmed by casualties from Israeli strikes

Doctors in one of the last hospitals in Gaza City say that they are drowned in the victims of Israeli strikes and are forced to carry out operations in dirty circumstances with or without anesthesia.

One of the Australian doctors who volunteers at the Shiva BBC Hospital was told every day it was a collective event, while another described how a child was rescued from the body of a pregnant woman who was killed.

The Israeli forces are now only 500 meters (1640 feet) from the hospital, where its attack expanded on its soil to fully occupy the Gaza City, which the Israeli military calls “the stronghold of Hamas.”

Witnesses say the tanks are moving to the city center from the south and northwest.

Israeli air and artillery attacks in the air continue drone and bombings of vehicles that are operating remotely with explosives in pushing tens of thousands of Palestinians from their homes every day.

The Israeli army says it is attacking in Gaza City to defeat Hamas and secure the launch of the hostages, which is still the group after 23 months of war.

Warning: contains graphical descriptions of injuries

The Shiva Hospital was once the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip. It is now in ruin, by drilling, with burning wings and bullet holes.

But inside the paramedics work after full expansion. Many beds do not even contain mattresses, medicines are available and countless losses.

“It is just a mass murder, murder, torture, and nightmare,” said Dr. Nada Abu Abu, an emergency specialist from Australia, a volunteer in the hospital, in a video call on Tuesday.

She said they were working on very wounded patients with “minimum lack of anesthesia.”

“There are no pain relievers either, with its ends hanging with a piece of leather and tendons. The brain is a matter. Members are outside. It is terrible.”

She said last week, the doctors had an emergency caesarean procedure on a nine -month pregnant woman whose head was detonated. They managed to save her daughter.

“The child Pradic Pradic was, so the heart rate was low,” she recalls. “It was transferred to another hospital.”

Dr. Saya Aziz, an Australian anesthesiologist, described how a six -year -old boy with a broken arm and leg was waiting for three days to perform an external installed operation on her because the only orthopedic surgeon in the hospital was to give priority for more serious cases.

“Every few hours there are multiple amputations with a tremendous resuscitation. It is life or limbs, literally,” she told the BBC.

“And you are entering and you are trying to explode them [while] They raise flies in the theater.

“There is blood over the family. There are no equipment. There are no alternatives. You can see sadness and sadness in the field of health care.”

Outside the hospital, Israel’s tanks are advancing, as the attack on the ground continues against Hamas in Gaza City.

A video posted on social media showed a tank in Hamid, an intersection in the Rimal neighborhood, which is less than 500 meters from Shiva.

Another video showed the south, just 700 meters from the city center.

The Palestinian journalist Fathi Sabah, who lives in southern Gaza, said, but owns an apartment in the southern neighborhood of Tal Al -Hawa in the city, that his family members survived the difficulty of the Israeli incursion.

“My wife and my son went to our apartment to collect some properties. They suddenly found themselves trapped while the tanks were surrounding the area,” he said.

“They lived in the most difficult night in their lives before escaping from a back door. It is incredible how quickly the tanks reach the heart of the city.”

It is estimated that about a million Palestinians live in Gaza City before Israel announced its plans to attack last month.

The United Nations says that more than 320,000 have escaped south since then, while the Israeli army has put the number in 640,000.

The Israeli army asked people to go south for their safety to a “humanitarian area” dedicated to Al -Malasi, where he said that medical care, water and food will be provided.

However, witnesses say that the Rashid coastal road is severely crowded and that families are struggling for hours to complete the trip.

According to what was reported, the evacuation cost increased to more than 3000 dollars (2,200 pounds) for each family – away from the reach of most of the population.

The United Nations also said that the tents camps in Al -Malassi are crowded and unsafe, and that southern hospitals are working several times of their ability.

“The tanks are not located a few meters away from my house, but I cannot afford the cost of fleeing,” Sultan Nassar, a 62 -year -old father from the Sabra neighborhood, told the BBC. “Death everywhere, in the north and in the south.”

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that the oxygen station at the Delds Hospital in Tel Al -Hawa had stopped working after it was shot by the Israeli forces, and that it had only the oxygen cylinders filled with three days ago.

He added that the Israeli military vehicles were currently developed at the southern gate of the hospital, which prevents anyone from entering or leaving.

The Israeli army said it was looking into the report.

On Monday, the Hamas -running Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the Israeli progress and bombing had been forced into the Ranksi Children’s Hospital and St. John Hospital near in the northern Nasr neighborhood to evacuate and close patients.

The Jordanian Armed Forces also decided to close their field hospital in Tal Al -Hawa and transport it to southern Gaza, where the government news agency in Jordan informed that the bombing and other intensive explosions in the vicinity were damaged by the facility and some medical equipment.

The World Health Organization said that the Primary Health Care Center of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society in Gaza City had been destroyed in an Israeli air strike, which was wounded by two health workers. The center was providing blood services, shock care, cancer medications, and the treatment of chronic diseases.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others took hostage.

At least 65,382 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health in the region.