‘Same story complete’: Foreign volunteer doctor compares Lebanon with Gaza
The type of injuries from Israeli attacks on Lebanon is reminiscent of those in Gaza, particularly at the start of Israel’s war there last year, says Ghassan Abu Sittah, a foreign doctor currently in Beirut.
“Having worked in Gaza during the first two months of the genocide there, it’s the same story complete,” Abu Sittah told Al Jazeera from the Lebanese capital.
He said victims had almost “identical” patterns of injuries due to blasts and being pulled from under rubble.
Multiple members of the same family were also being killed in Lebanon, just as in Gaza, he added.
“Children constitute a large part of the wounded,” Abu Sittah said, noting these young victims were largely injured inside their homes after coming under attack.
“We have been receiving children who needed paediatric intensive care and because of the shortage of paediatric intensive care beds, they’ve had to be sent from front-line hospitals in the south all the way back to Beirut.”
Many coming into hospitals also have no homes to go back to because those were destroyed in the attacks, the doctor said.
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