as fighting in Gaza has blocked the way to hospitals
Location: Khan Younis, Gaza
(Ibrahim Abu al-Kass, Paramedic/Red Crescent Medical Point Head)
"This medical point was created after the siege of hospitals, including Nasser Hospital and al-Amal Hospital, and the hard access to them under the current events. We deal with cases under very critical conditions, daily fighting, targeting the field hospital more than once, and dealing with cases that would be even hard to treat in some of the nearby hospitals, so they get transferred to farther hospitals and that imposes bigger challenge on ambulance vehicles and those who work at the field hospital given the tough situation."
Date: January 30, 2024
Nassim Hassan (arrow) and a few colleagues
made it out of Nasser Hospital last week
with two ambulances and the last
remaining medical supplies
(Nassim Hassan, Head of Emergency Unit, Nasser Hospital)
"We now function as an ambulance field point in central Khan Younis. Since we left six days ago, we have been working. There's a lot of injuries among the displaced who were in the industrial quarter and some schools - many of the injured left loaded on carts, tuk-tuks, cars or even on foot."
Israel's bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza after
the Oct. 7 Hamas attack has destroyed health care facilities
Medical aid is hard to come by
"Yes, hospitals have been destroyed, medical storehouses as well. Many ambulance vehicles were destroyed - many E.M.S officers were martyred. There have been direct and indirect targeting of paramedics."
