This week, as a family sat at the kitchen table in a house housing Doctors Without Borders workers and their families in Khan Younis, a 120mm tank shell exploded through the walls, causing a fire. Two people were killed and six others were badly burned. Five of the six injured are women and children.
Lockyear said the destruction caused by Israeli attacks on hospitals meant that some work to support victims could not be carried out. Benjamin Netanyahu's government justifies the measures by claiming that these health centers house members of Hamas. However, the UN emphasizes that the victims were civilians.
“Our patients have catastrophic injuries, amputations, crushed limbs and severe burns. They require demanding care. They need long and intensive rehabilitation,” said the MSF representative.
“Doctors cannot treat these injuries on a battlefield or in the ashes of destroyed hospitals,” he said. “There are not enough hospital beds, not enough medicine and not enough supplies,” he warned.
“Surgeons had no choice but to perform amputations on children without anesthesia,” he told other members of the Security Council.
“Our surgeons are running out of basic gauze to stop their patients' bleeding. You use it once, squeeze the blood, wash it, sterilize it and reuse it for the next patient,” he explains.