sherwet

Humanitarian Affairs Officer @UNOCHA | Past @MSF @SavetheChildren | @Harvard
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[sherwet @sherwetrashed]

@JoeBiden Wtf

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured

As the @UN's agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemns Israel's repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating more than 2000 inpatients in northern Gaza. The forced evacuation of patients and health workers will further worsen the current humanitarian and public health catastrophe.

The lives of many critically ill and fragile patients hang in the balance: those in intensive care or who rely on life support; patients undergoing hemodialysis; newborns in incubators; women with complications of pregnancy, and others all face imminent deterioration of their condition or death if they are forced to move and are cut off from life-saving medical attention while being evacuated.

Health facilities in northern Gaza continue to receive an influx of injured patients and are struggling to operate beyond maximum capacity. Some patients are being treated in corridors and outdoors in surrounding streets due to a lack of hospital beds.

Forcing more than 2000 patients to relocate to southern Gaza, where health facilities are already running at maximum capacity and unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number patients, could be tantamount to a death sentence.

Hospital directors and health workers are now facing an agonizing choice: abandon critically ill patients amid a bombing campaign, put their own lives at risk while remaining on site to treat patients, or endanger their patients’ lives while attempting to transport them to facilities that have no capacity to receive them.

Overwhelmingly, caregivers have chosen to stay behind and honor their oaths as health professionals to “do no harm,” rather than risk moving their critically ill patients during evacuations. Health workers should never have to make such impossible choices.

Additionally, tens of thousands of displaced people in northern Gaza are seeking refuge in open spaces in or around hospitals, treating them as havens from violence as well as to protect the facilities from potential attacks. Their lives, too, are at risk when health facilities are bombed.

There are verified reports of deaths of health care workers and destruction of health facilities, which denies civilians the basic human right of life-saving health care and is prohibited under International Humanitarian Law.

WHO calls for Israel to immediately reverse evacuation orders to hospitals in northern Gaza, and calls for the protection of health facilities, health workers, patients, and civilians.

WHO also reiterates its calls for the immediate and safe delivery of medical supplies, fuel, clean water, food, and other humanitarian aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing, where life-saving assistance, including WHO health supplies that arrived earlier today, is currently awaiting entry.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Israel has wiped out all generations of 45 Palestinian families.

Never in my life did I think I’d read a headline like this.

All generations, of 45 families.

[OCHA OPT (Palestine) @ochaopt]

"We lost too many colleagues in the past few days, but despite that, we are here, and continue to provide assistance to the most vulnerable.

"We need the borders to open in order to be able to bring more assistance."

-- Messages from our colleague in #Gaza.

[Bayan @BayanPalestine]

أنا بيان، عشت ٢٧ سنة في مدينتي الجميلة غزة، واليوم قد يكون آخر يوم الي هون.
أنا وأهلي ما رح نعيد غلطة نكبة 1948 وما رح نغادر بيتنا باتجاه الجنوب.
كلنا فخر بفلسطينيّتنا لآخر نفس.
ما بسامح العالم من شرقه إلى غربه على اللي رح يصير فينا، وبتمنى صورنا تلاحقكم لآخر عمركم.
#غزة

[MSF International @MSF]

“Israel’s 24-hour notice that people in Northern Gaza must leave their land, homes and hospitals is outrageous – this represents an attack on medical care and on humanity.

We have consistently seen dehumanising language and this violence is a manifestation of that.

[MSF International @MSF]

🔴BREAKING:

Israel has given Al Awda Hospital just two hours to evacuate. Our staff are still treating patients.

We unequivocally condemn this action, the continued indiscriminate bloodshed and attacks on health care in Gaza.

We are trying to protect our staff and patients.

[UN Humanitarian @UNOCHA]

📢⚠️ Flash appeal:

The situation in the #GazaStrip and #Israel continues to unfold rapidly. Ongoing hostilities are having grave humanitarian consequences.

Humanitarians require US$294M to address the most urgent needs of 1.3M people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. ⬇️

[OCHA OPT (Palestine) @ochaopt]

Read our Flash Update #6 on the hostilities in the #GazaStrip and #Israel.

🔗https://t.co/4lq4kH0gfZ

[ahmed ezzarab @aezzarab25]

حفلة عيد ميلاد فى غزة بين الأنقاض - فلسطين 🇵🇸

A birthday party among the ruins in https://t.co/haUc4XSHQY - Palestine
فلسطين شعب لا ينحنى و لا ينكسر

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

People in Gaza are posting their wills, last words & pleas for forgiveness if they've ever wronged anyone in any way.

Israel killed 1417 Gazans, inc. 447 children & 248 women in 6 days.

Everyone believes it could be their turn next; either from an airstrike or starvation...

[Ayça Çubukçu @ayca_cu]

Calling on all scholars of human rights and international law: Despite the intimidation many of us are facing, we must raise our voices against Israel's current and impending massacre of Palestinians in Gaza. We must mobilize now or live with the shame of complicity forever.

[sherwet @sherwetrashed]

ايه العالم اللي احنا عايشين فيه ده

[Lama Al-Arian @lalarian]

Aljazeera broadcasting live footage of Israel dropping fliers over Gaza city demanding the evacuation of 1.1 million people. People I’ve spoke to in Gaza have said this is another nakba

[Omar Baddar عمر بدّار @OmarBaddar]

If we’re going to be morally consistent, & care about the lives & wellbeing & freedom of both Palestinians & Israelis equally, we’ll need to realize there is no military solution to this violence, & resolving this problem requires JUSTICE through an end to Israeli apartheid. 4/4

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Oh no the Americans are waking up… god help us stomach the think pieces

[galal yousif @galalgoly]

Edge of nothing series #available it is about how people of #sudan lost directions and homes and looking for new places somewhere far from the #war some went North some went east some went South some west and some were stuck on the borders because of the visa issues

[Claudio Francavilla @ClaFrancavilla]

"Which limb do you want me to shoot?"

Shocking report by @hrw exposes #Saudi authorities' horrendous, sadistic abuses against #migrants crossing from the #Yemen border

*At least* hundreds killed since 2022, in what may constitute crimes against humanity: https://t.co/qpUCA4cYY8

[sherwet @sherwetrashed]

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