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Caroline Seguin, an emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has shared some of what she has witnessed in northern Gaza over the past weeks in a post on the aid organisation’s website.
She says that in the Indonesian hospital “every medical machine seemed to have been deliberately destroyed”.
They were smashed to pieces, one by one, to make sure no medical care could be provided anymore … These machines are made to save people’s lives – mothers, fathers, children. It’s devastating to see the state of these hospitals.
She says that her colleagues, already shocked by level of destruction in Gaza City, were left without words when they entered Jabalia refugee camp, which was placed in a siege within a siege by the Israeli army at the end of last year and relentlessly attacked.
There is nothing there anymore. Only ruins and the smell of death everywhere because of the dead bodies still trapped under the rubble.
She also said that despite the four-week-long ceasefire “we are still not seeing the massive scale-up of humanitarian aid needed in northern Gaza”.
According to Al Jazeera, Israel has only allowed in 8,500 trucks of basic aid into Gaza since the ceasefire, instead of the 12,000 agreed upon in the deal.
