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An American surgeon who has been working in two Gaza hospitals in the last three weeks said injured Palestinian patients were killed in a lack of equipment and materials.
Dr. Mark Perlmutut says that the doctors had to work in operating gold-free soap, antibiotics and X-rays, as Israel resumed the offensive against Hamas in Gaza.
A 15-year-old girl affected by the Israeli machine gun during a cycling machine was one of the many wounded children on which Dr. Perlmute said he needed to work.
The Israeli government said the updated attacks that his military are conducting in gas are aimed at forceing Hamas to release all other hostages.
D -Rplmuter made a speech with the BBC shortly after the end of his second trip – the first was about a year ago. Critically referred to Israel’s behavior in the lane, he had previously called for weapons and stated that his attacks on gas are a genocide that Israel brutally denies.
This time he worked at al-Axi hospital in Direl al-Bala in the center of the territory, and then at the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza.
It works in Humanity Auxilium in Gaza as part of a wide program of the World Health Organization (WHO).
He was in the Nasser Hospital when he was hit by an Israeli air strike, focusing on Ismail Barhum, Hamas Finance.
Hamas said Barhum was treated from the injuries he had received in an earlier Israeli attack. The Israeli troops denied this, saying he was in the hospital “to commit terrorism.”
D -Rplmute said BBC that Barhum is in the hospital to get further medical treatment. He says, as a patient in the hospital, Barhum had the right to be protected in accordance with the Geneva Convention.
The cost of a person in the newest Israeli offensive was attached to Dr. Perlmuther with two 15 -year -old children – including a bicycle girl – brought to the operating room at each of the hospitals in which he worked for each other.
“They were simultaneously motened and crushed Apache Gunships,” says D -Rplmuter.
In his words, the girl will “be lucky if she holds three limbs.”
D -Rplmutter says that people at the scene told the ambulance crew who brought a young girl to the hospital that she had suffered from an Israeli military helicopter.
He says she went on his own bicycle, and she came to the hospital without a backpack or something else that could have been suspicious. Graphic images from the operating table show catastrophic wounds on the leg and arm.
The boy was driving in a car with his grandmother after receiving the warnings to evacuate from the north, says D -Rplmuter.
“Then two apoch shot was attacked by the car. The grandmother was crushed at the scene and died,” he said.
“The boy entered without a leg on the right, the repair of the vessels on the left side took five hours – the nerve repair fell on the left side, and the next day he was blackened, which required amputation at the level of the elbow – his left leg would require multiple reconstruction operations, and he had a breast.”
Dr. Perlmute also presented graphic photos of the boy’s injuries.
A statement by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated that “not focused on the unnoticed people.”
“IDF acts in accordance with international law, focusing only in military tasks, while taking possible measures to mitigate the damage to civilians,” he said BBC.
The statement also said that IDF was not provided with “sufficient information” for direct resolution of the incidents described by D -Rplmutt.
“IDF takes measures to eliminate irregular incidents that deviate from its orders. IDF views such incidents and takes appropriate measures where they are justified,” the message said.
In such circumstances, D -R Perlmutut emphasized the commitment and dedication of the Palestinian medical staff – above and the efforts of foreign doctors like him.
“We have not even accessible to what is happening even for Palestinian -medical students who work with us, the level of stress is insane, as in nursing and technicians in the operating room, not to mention Palestinian surgeons,” he said.
“All of them refuse their families, they voluntarily work and often work without pay. They work in the same hours as we – and we can go home in a month, which they don’t. They still have to return to the mud of their tents, where often 50 people live in a 20 -built tent and divide one toilet.”
Most of the hospitals across the gas are out of operation or practically do not cope. D -Rplmuter compared medical institutions to Gaza where he lives in North Carolina. There are several traumatic centers, but they would be broken, he says if they had to fight the mass tributary of the victims that arose from the first day of Israel’s recovery in his war against Hamas.
“A small public hospital, al -x, the size of any of the facilities in my hometown – perhaps less – and it managed these terrible injuries – nevertheless, from the lack of equipment, many of these patients died, which certainly did not die in the best equipped hospital,” he said.
On Saturday, UN Chief Humanator Tom Fletcher called the current gas situation as a terrible.
“All gas entry points are closed for cargo since early March. Foods are rotting on the border, the passing of medicine and vital medical equipment is delayed,” he said.
“If the basic principles of humanitarian law are still taken into account, the international community must act to support them.”
On March 2, the Israeli government closed the border crossing with gas and stopped humanitarian aid. It states that it was in response to what he called Hamas’s refusal new proposal Continue the first stage of ceasefire And the transaction to release the hostages, not the negotiations in the second stage.
“When Israel resumed his attacks, he was almost identical when they were constantly bombing when I was here a year ago,” says D -Rplmuter. “The only difference now is that instead of bombing people in buildings, they bombed people in tents.”
The Israeli army regularly claims that Hamas works from areas where civilians receive asylum. It states that it is not aimed at civilians and take action to avoid civilian victims.
A The International Criminal Court last year issued arrest warrants For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Joawa Galanta on alleged war crimes, saying that there was a reasonable reason to believe that “everyone is criminal liability … for a military crime, intentionally directed by the civilian population.” They deny it.
Israeli attacks have killed more than 15,000 Palestinian children in Gaza, the Ministry of Health Hamas reports.
And since the IDF violated the ceasefire on March 18 and resumed its strikes, 921 Palestinians were killed, the ministry said.
D -Rrlmutter warns that if the Israeli attacks have more mass events, the lack of supplies in two hospitals he works, means that more Palestinians die from wounds that could be treated.