Doctors and medical staff on the ground in Gaza painted a grim picture for UK members of parliament on Tuesday, describing the dire healthcare crisis gripping the besieged enclave.
During a meeting with MPs and the International Development Committee, they shared firsthand accounts of overcrowded hospitals, severe shortages of medical supplies, and relentless violence impacting civilians.
Professor Nizam Mamode, a former transplant surgery specialist who had spent time in the Nasser Hospital, which Israeli forces raided and besieged in February, spoke of his experience in Gaza.
He told the MPs that the scenes he witnessed “resembled Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” with devastated landscapes and buildings reduced to rubble.
“Most people in Gaza have been forced to move six or seven times,” he said.
“There are constant drones, which existed before October last year – this has been a feature of Palestinian life for some time – but now they instil fear” he added.
Mamode was in Gaza from mid-August to mid-September and said much of what he saw was distressing.
“There were clear, deliberate, and persistent acts, where after a bomb would drop, drones would come and target civilians and children… 60 percent of the people we treated were women and children,” he said.
You can read more of the report from The New Arab journalist Nadda Osman here.
