Even after surviving horrific bombing injuries, patients in Gaza’s few working hospitals are still dying from infections due to lack of medical supplies, while many victims are children, US health workers who have returned from the war-torn territory said.
Adam Hamawy, a former US Army combat surgeon, told the AFP news agency that humanitarian aid must enter Gaza in “sufficient volumes to meet the demands”.
“The level of civilian casualties that I experienced was beyond anything I’d seen before,” Hamawy said in an interview following a medical mission to Gaza’s European Hospital last month.
“Most of our patients were children under the age of 14,” said the 54-year-old medic, who has volunteered in warzones and natural disaster-hit countries for the past 30 years.
“You could give all you want, you can donate,” Hamawy said.
“But if these borders [in Gaza] don’t open up to allow that aid to get in, then it’s just useless,” he said.
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