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“Hunger and lack of everything make us go there.”
“We know that we can get injured either at any time, but we are still going there to get a kilo of flour.”
33-year-old Mohammed al-Kadri-one of the many patients brought to the field hospital, which is managed by the British charity of the UK in South Gaza, which sought food but found only violence.
He said he was shot dead in his arm and leg, trying to get food for his family at a nearby aid distribution center run by Israeli and Humanities Gaza (GHF).
“I asked someone to move me and deliver me to the hospital. A good Samaritan brought me here,” he reminded in an interview with a Freelancer journalist who works on the BBC.
Mohammed said he was aware of the risk he risk trying to get to the GHF site, but he has no choice.
“Hunger is bad for me and all.”
“Today I eat (B) Hospital. Once I have improved, I will return to these centers no matter what. I’m the only breastfeed for the whole family.”
According to the UN Human Rights, the Israeli military has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians trying to get food assistance over the last two months.
It states that at least 766 of them were killed in the immediate vicinity of one of the four distributed GHF centers that are governed by US private contractors and are in Israeli military zones.
Another 288 people were killed near the UN and other escorts.
Israel accused Hamas of inciting chaos near assistance sites. It states that his troops were only shot by warning shots, and they deliberately do not shoot the civilians.
GHF says the UN uses “false” figures from the Ministry of Health Hamas Gaza.
British paramedic Sam Sirs said the UK Hospital in Al Mavasi saw about 2000 patients per month in the ambulance department, many of them were injured by seeking help.
“We have patients who have received firearms, wounds with fragments, have an amputation of the legs, have firearms in the chest that caused the pierced lungs and so on,” he added through the inpatient ward.
D -Rosel Garabi, a Palestinian physician who has been working at the hospital for almost a year, had to go to the deadly sites of assistance, calling it “to death.”
“My husband went once (or) twice, and then shot and everything was! If we die, let it be,” she said.
“I see the affected people who come to the hospital in large numbers. Sometimes we get up to 50 injuries a day. During the day we have no time to close our eyes and rest or even drink a cup of tea.”
Dr. Garabi, who lives in a neighboring tent with her family because her house in Rafa was destroyed, said it did not eat a day.
“I bought a kilogram of potatoes and (it) cost me 120 (Shekel) ($ 36; £ 27). Prices are not normal. It’s hard to provide things. You can spend $ 100 a day for one meal!”
“Here, in the hospital, they currently do not offer food. If they have food, they give patients small quantities,” she added. “We need to deal with hungry patients and we are also hungry.”
She said she was dealing with patients who were drained both physically and psychologically.
“We came to the catastrophic situation. The point is not that we are close to starvation,” she warned. “The world listens and looks, but silent.”
She added: “We don’t have time to think about sadness because we think about what to eat, bread, what to cook tomorrow and how to get to the hospital.”
On Wednesday, more than 100 international assistance organizations and human rights groups have accused Israel of guiding “siege”, which caused mass fasting through the restriction of the goods that are part of the gas.
At the request to comment, the Executive Director of the World Health Organization D -Ra Tedroz Hibbius said: “Mass famine means starvation of the large population, and the large proportion of Gaza’s population is starving.”
“It is man -made. And it’s very clear. This is due to the blockade.”
He added: “(More than 1000) people were killed while trying to feed themselves. If they don’t starve, imagine (why they) risk their lives.”
Israel introduced a common blockade of gas delivery in early March and two weeks resumed a military offensive against Hamas, breaking down a two -month ceasefire. It states that he wants to put pressure on an armed group to release the rest of Israeli hostages.
Despite the fact that the blockade was partially weakened after almost two months, against the backdrop of warnings about the coming hunger from the world experts, lack of food, medicines and fuel has deteriorated.
WHO says a quarter of 2.1 million people are hungry and that almost 100,000 women and children suffer from severe acute malnutrition.
Gaza Hamas’s Ministry of Health says at least 45 people were killed in a malnutrition on Sunday, including two who have died in the last 24 hours.
Israel, which controls the entry of all supplies to the gas, rejects the accusation that it imposes a siege and is responsible for any cases of malnutrition.
“There is no hunger caused by Israel today. However, there is a man-made deficit developed by Hamas,” said Government spokesman David Menzer at a briefing on Wednesday.
“Now the full story is not told now. Such suffering exist because Hamas has created it.”
The Menzer said that over 4,400 aid has entered the last two months, but about 700 cargoes were waiting for collections at two points to collect the UN and its humanitarian partners.
“This is a narrow place caused by the UN, and it is the main obstacle to maintaining a consistent stream of humanitarian aid in gas,” he added.
However, the UN agencies said it is almost impossible to coordinate a safe passage for their escorts with Israeli troops, leaving the Palestinians to the fast hunger, which reaches each family in Gaza.