GENEVA: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) stated on Thursday that Israel is methodically dismantling Gaza’s healthcare system, citing sights of horror that no hospital in the world could bear.
The medical charity reported that many patients were being buried under rubble and subsequently suffering from severe burns, and that youngsters were presenting to hospitals with gunshot wounds from drones.
Deadly attacks on humanitarian workers, according to the MSF, either demonstrated willful ineptitude or purposeful malice. Before October, Amber Alayyan, deputy program manager for MSF in the Middle East, noted that although the Gaza healthcare system was not ideal, it was stable and growing.
“We’re witnessing the methodical and intentional dismantling of the healthcare infrastructure,” she stated during a press conference held at MSF’s Geneva headquarters.
According to Alayyan, explosive injuries—the result of bombs striking homes—accounted for the great majority of injuries that MSF medics saw in Gaza.
“In addition to severe burns, patients require amputations for their arms and legs, and you get crush injuries to the abdomen and thorax,” the speaker stated.
“There is no healthcare system in the world that can handle the amount and variety of injuries and illnesses that we witness on a daily basis.
“The healthcare system in Gaza prior to the war cannot be replaced, even with 1,000 field hospitals added.”
“We now see children with gunshot wounds from quadcopters—drones carrying guns,” she continued.
The MSF claimed that Israel was operating freely on Palestinian land and that the UN Security Council’s demand for a ceasefire needed to be supported by concrete measures.
Christopher Lockyear, the secretary general of MSF International, reported that five MSF employees were among the almost 200 humanitarian workers who had perished in Gaza.
He described the attacks as “a war fought with no rules” and told reporters in Geneva that “this pattern of attacks is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence.”
He claimed that because “Israel faces no political cost,” Israel’s decision to permit the assaults to occur was “a political choice.”
“On the contrary, its allies give even more weapons and permit this brutality with impunity.”
According to him, all governments that back Israel are “morally and politically complicit.”
