Gaza healthcare workers ‘constantly scared they’ll be the next target’: Analysis
Gaza’s healthcare system has collapsed in the year of Israel’s war.
Hospitals have been bombed, medical staff attacked, and supplies blocked.
A majority of Palestinians are in desperate need of health care as they battle hunger and diseases.
Al Jazeera’s Um-e-Kulsoom Shariff reports.
Dr Jeremy Hickey, speaking to Al Jazeera from al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, says when he worked there in July the health facility was at 300 percent capacity but the situation is even more desperate now.
“The place is flooded with people and this is the daily situation,” said Hickey.
Medical facilities have been repeatedly attacked by Israeli forces since the beginning of the war and the doctor noted local healthcare workers are “constantly scared they’ll be the next target”.
“There’s some level of safety being a foreigner but at the same time we don’t know who or when will be struck. For those reasons, we’ve been instructed very particularly we’re not to leave the hospital grounds. But even last night there was an attack literally across the road to the hospital entrance, and any one of us could’ve been struck.”
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