In the corridors of Al -Ayoun Hospital in Gaza City, the sounds of medical devices and the beds of surveillance devices are mixed inside the operating rooms with the breath of exhausted doctors working in a race against time to save the injured.
On the faces of doctors, the features of extreme exhaustion are marked by the systematic Israeli starvation and the suffocating siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, as part of a collective extermination war launched by Tel Aviv 22 months ago.
Doctors continue to work for long hours inside the operating rooms, driven by their human duty, under the weight of a siege that turned the loaf of bread into a rare meal, and made sugar and proteins more expensive than gold, according to what doctors told Anatolia.
Recently, the United Nations World Food Program warned that a third of Gaza population (out of about 2.4 million Palestinians) had not eaten for several days.
He described the humanitarian situation as unprecedented in the levels of hunger and despair.
While the United Nations confirms that Gaza needs hundreds of humanitarian aid trucks daily to end the famine that it suffers as a result of the blockade and genocide.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders to the International Court of Justice to stop it.
The Israeli genocide left 61,430 Palestinian martyrs and 153 thousand and 213 wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and famine that killed 217 people, including 100 children until Sunday.
On the second of last March, Israel closed Gaza crossings in front of humanitarian, relief and medical aid, while thousands of trucks accumulate on its borders. This caused a catastrophic of catastrophic levels.
Losing weight
Muhammad al -Tayyib, 33, an ophthalmologist, told Anatolia that he has been working for 7 years.
But the last two years have been the most difficult, especially since last March, as Al -Tayeb and his colleagues have lived a systematic starvation that affected all the citizens of Gaza.
He added: We are working doubled because of the targeting of aid experts, in reference to the Israeli army firing on Palestinians while waiting for scarce humanitarian aid.
On Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that hospitals have received 35 dead and 304 wounded awaits aid within 24 hours, which raised the total to 1778 dead and 12 thousand and 894 wounded since May 27 last.
Al -Tayeb continued: Our salaries reach every two or three months as an advance, which hardly covers the price of flour.
He stated that surgeries have multiplied from one operation monthly before the war to three days now, most of which take an hour to 3 hours.
With one meal a day, Al -Tayeb said: I lost 10 kilograms since last March.
And Abizaid: I go to the hospital on foot several kilometers, and I do not find sugar or proteins, even pregnant women and children are deprived of the necessary food.
Doctors solutions
The director of Al -Ayoun Hospital, Abdel Salam Sabah, told Anatolia that the reality is difficult and bitter for both medical and administrative staff.
He continued: Doctors fall out of their operation rooms due to fatigue and food shortage, and we give them venous solutions (medical fluids) to continue their work.
He went on to say that most of the employees come to work and their stomachs are empty, and they only receive one meal per day.
While the head of the hospital anesthesia department said 25 years ago, Iyad Abu Karsh said: The work with malnutrition and lack of food led to severe fatigue for the crews, especially with the doubling of working hours around the clock.
Abu Karsh added to Anatolia that the nature of the exact operations, which relate to saving vision or life, requires high focus and great energy, but our meal is modest.
Stress and dizziness
We feel severe stress, dizziness and headache during work, so doctor Maha Dabban began her talk about the impact of the lack of food on their health and performance.
Dabban continued: The heartbeat became faster, and lost 8 kilograms of my weight, and the siege deprived us of vitamins and proteins.
Our bodies need feeding, and without them I will not be able to offer the same energy in saving patients, as the Palestinian doctor concluded.