Dr. Maham Qureshi, who specializes in vascular surgery from Imperial College London, said that she had never seen an armed individual or any tunnels inside Nasser and Al -Aqsa Hospital in the Gaza Strip.
Qureshi – who worked with the International Salvation Committee in Gaza – added that people no longer show a reaction when a bomb fell, as they lost “this natural physiological sense.”
Dr. Maham’s statements came in a media briefing by the International Salvation Committee – today, Thursday, January 30, 2025 – via the Internet, under the title “Understanding the Health Crisis in Gaza”, and the island covered it on health.
Elias Abu Atta, Director of Communications and Regional Information at the International Salvation Committee, said that more than 15 months of conflict in Gaza had destroyed the health care infrastructure in Gaza, leaving more than two million people without medical services.
He added that the ceasefire on January 19, almost all hospitals are still devastating or affected, and there are no hospitals in the north at all. Health workers are exhausted, where 500 people were killed, and the restrictions on supplies led to uninterrupted deaths.
In response to a question from Al -Jazeera, the health number of deaths since the seventh of October as a result of the destruction of the health sector, Dr. Muhammad Al -Aila, a director of a root project for health and social development, and a partner of the International Salvation Committee in the field of health, said that in fact, in northern Gaza and in Gaza City, none of the health facilities of any other party or the government has been working since October 7.
He added that UNRWA clinics were allocated as shelters, and government health clinics were destroyed at the beginning of this war, and therefore there is no single health facility located in Gaza City or North Gaza.
For her part, Dr. Anna Gilani, a child orthopedic consultant, said that patients are dying as a result of the ultimately unable to provide health care for her.
“The real number of dead … I believe that we will never know that,” Ana added.
The number of deaths is much lower than his real estimates
Dr. Maham said that even from direct injuries, the death toll is much lower than his real estimates, but this does not take into account the people who died from hunger, and this does not take into account the lack of care before birth and the resulting premature birth, birth problems and paralysis diseases The brain that affects children as a result and they will pay for the rest of their lives.
“This statistics does not include the number of people who died due to diseases that can be fully treated within the Palestinian health system before the start of this war,” Maham added.
“We need mainly to allow the introduction of medical supplies, water, and food, in order to fix the situation there … because the matter is not limited to taking immediate action, but we need Also to take long -term measures until life is possible in Gaza. “
Dr. Muhammad Al -Aila said, “We were shocked by the direct and intense mass destruction that caused health facilities … They (the Israeli army) target these facilities as a direct goal.”
“I don’t know what they are thinking about health facilities, but they are in fact bombing all the facilities in northern Gaza. I have witnessed the bombing of the primary health care clinic in Jabalia, and the primary health care clinic in Beit Hanoun … they have been completely destroyed, in addition to targeting Hospitals.
He said, “I never imagined that no one could target health facilities directly and destroy them intentionally … inside (health facilities). There were some floors burning, by intentionally targeting them directly by shooting these floors.”
“I spent nearly two months in Gaza, and I have not seen any occasion at all an armed individual, whether in Nasser Hospital or in Al -Aqsa Hospital. I have. I had the freedom to wander wherever I wanted in the hospital.
Dr. Anna Gilani talked about one of the stories she lived, which is the story of an orthopedic doctor who worked with him the second time she went to Gaza, he told her that last June he was working and spoke to his wife on the phone and then closed the phone and what he learned after that was that After 15 minutes, his house was targeted with an air strike, and his parents, his wife and children were killed, one of whom is 5 years old and the other 3 years.
“When he told me, he said this is very quietly,” she added. Then he looked at me and said, Praise be to God .. And he said I am here to serve people. Now this doctor lives in a tent on his own.
“He is not the only person who has such stories. This story has been repeated several times by the people we have worked with,” she added.
Voice of drones
“One of the things that shocked me, I remember her on my first trip, that while you are in Gaza, the first thing you hear when you enter Rafah the sound of drones above you … and this is in fact a fixed feature of life in Gaza, not limited to the war, but what was Different is the sound of artillery shelling. “
“Within days of my presence in Gaza, she became an expert, and I had no military background at all. I became an expert in discrimination between drones, Apache, F-16s, naval fire, unfortunately, I learned this from children,” she added.
She added that the children in Gaza taught her how to differentiate between the various military voices.
“One of the things that shocked me more than others said that many of them have already lost their sudden reaction. If a bomb suddenly exploded outside the courtyard or a meter away, I was jumping, as you know. It is a natural nervous response … but people were looking at me and laughing or smiling Because they were so long for this to the extent that this reflections – a natural physiological reaction – have completely disappeared. “
Reflex is automatic, involuntary actions by the body in response to certain stimuli. While some reactions may include muscle and movement, others include internal processes inside the body. For example, in the event of an explosion, the opposite is trembling, moving, or jumping from the place.