Northern Gaza faces medical crisis as remaining hospitals are overwhelmed amid war
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🗓️ 25 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Today more chaos and carnage in southern Gaza as Israeli airstrikes near dawn |
| 0:05.7 | killed at least 38 Palestinians including 13 children in Kanyunis. In northern |
| 0:11.4 | Gaza the UN said Israeli soldiers today rated the final working hospital there. |
| 0:16.8 | The Kamal Adwan Hospital is in the middle of an area where Israeli forces have been operating |
| 0:21.7 | for the last three weeks saying Hamas had |
| 0:24.1 | regrouped there. Today's raid in what the US and UN call extremely limited |
| 0:29.1 | humanitarian aid have created a medical crisis. Nick Schifren's report begins inside the hospital and a warning. |
| 0:36.0 | Some of the images in this story are disturbing. |
| 0:39.0 | It is supposed to be the home of healing, but its director warns it's becoming a mass grave. |
| 0:47.0 | A mother lies with her son who died in the Kamaladwan hospital because its staff didn't have enough supplies to save him. |
| 0:56.2 | Many of the patients have wounds too graphic to show. |
| 0:59.9 | Many of the wounded in this war waged by adults are children. |
| 1:05.0 | We're being treated without anesthesia. |
| 1:08.4 | Kamaladwan is supposed to be a small hospital with a capacity for about 50. These days it is overwhelmed. |
| 1:17.2 | By 150 to 200 patients, one of the wounded dies every hour. |
| 1:22.5 | The sounds of pain interrupted only by the echoes of war. |
| 1:28.2 | Right outside the walls. |
| 1:30.0 | Dr. Hussam Abu Sophia is the hospital's director and sent this audio via the NGO Med Global. |
| 1:37.0 | As you see now, there's bombing near our hospitals. We're suffering from a lack of medications and |
| 1:45.4 | medical supply and medical staff one day before one our team doctor was killed. He has been trying to alert the world, |
| 1:57.0 | posting online, appealing for blood and supplies in conditions he describes as catastrophic. |
| 2:06.0 | We appeal to the world to intervene to preserve our hospitals and we want international protections for our medical staff because we are |
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