'Please stop this.' Gaza's hospitals are failing under the weight of war. US medical groups are scrambling to help - CNN

[JackCoop]

Dr. Mohammed Ghneim has not left his hospital in Gaza City in four weeks. He can’t remember the last time he slept or ate, and his blue scrubs are stained in the blood of patients who’ve died in his arms.

His voice cracks under the weight of the horrors he’s seen: fetuses pulled from the wombs of dying mothers, children with crushed lungs struggling to breathe, and his own colleagues – doctors, nurses and EMTs – transported to the hospital morgue in body bags.

“We are doing our best – this is why we haven’t left here for days – but the situation is very horrible. There’s no way to describe it in any language or with any words,” Ghneim told CNN in a voice message on November 7, as sounds of chaos and panic unfolded around him. “Many times I want to go to the side and cry, but unfortunately there is no time.”

Ghneim is an emergency room doctor at Dar Al-Shifa, also known as Al-Shifa Hospital or Shifa, and is Arabic for “house of healing.” But at this hospital – the largest medical complex in Gaza – there’s far too much death.

Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/please-stop-this-gaza-s-hospitals-are-failing-under-the-weight-of-war-us-medical-groups-are-scrambling-to-help/ar-AA1jM3Ci

[Igel]

1. When you declare war, this is what you get.

Hamas declared war.

One sci-fi show said, accurately, "The avalanche has already begun. It's too late for the pebbles to vote."

Ghneim is a pebble. His government started the avalanche.

Ghneim has no vote. He can complain against gravity or vent at the cause of the avalanche, if he dare. One's free, cheap, common, and easy. The other could conceivably matter.