A nurse from the area explains it

It has been a year since Israel experienced one of the bloodiest days in its history. For the first time after the war that followed its construction in 1948, an enemy entered its territory. Hamas launches 2,000 rockets to divert attentionn to be able to enter Israel. The terrorists set out in search of victims. They killed about 2,000 peopleAccording to Israeli officials’ count, 815 of them are civilians.

They attacked military bases, agricultural communities, also known as kibbutzes, and faced a massive electronic music festival. Additionally, Hamas fighters captured 251 people. A few days later, Israel brutally attacked Gaza. A war is beginning that has already killed more than 42,000 people and has spread to other parts of the country.

As the days passed, tensions increased in northern Israel, on the border with Lebanon. Hezbollah was beginning to exert pressure on an area that was ultimately going to become a new war front. One of Israel’s great offensives took place in Beirut when they managed to kill the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, which was a moral blow to the terrorist group that caused the awakening of the third hero in this story: Iran.

This Monday, Angel Expósito, director of La Linterna, remembers what happened on October 7, 2023 and how the area is now.

Life in a hospital in Gaza

The balance of attacks this year is devastating: more than 41 thousand Gazans have been killed, ten thousand of them still under the rubble. Nearly 2 million of the Palestinian enclave’s 2.4 million residents have had to flee their homes.85% of Gaza’s school buildings have been damaged and only 17 of the enclave’s 36 hospitals are partially functional.

is in one of them anais o’sullivanNursing supervisor at a field hospital that Doctors Without Borders has set up in Deir-Albala, in the Gaza Strip. “Many people come in very bad conditions, with skin infections, respiratory infections, burns, trauma,” he explains in La Linterna.

“We built the hospital 3 weeks ago, These are very big plastic stores of 45 square meters.“, he explains, making sure that it is particularly warm inside, although they have a heating system for winter.

skin infection

Thus, O’Sullivan confirms that the majority are skin infection And respiratory tract infections and the reason for this are living conditions: “People do not have access to water and we see this on the way to the hospital.” “They’re wells built in the sand, and they fill bucket after bucket, and that’s water to wash,” he explains to Expósito. ,Drinking water is distributed through unions, there is no such thing as turning on a tap and washing yourself,

On the other hand, there are cases of respiratory infections because people live in tents covered with plastic, “but other people just put blankets or curtains over them,” he says. “They’re all clustered together and if someone gets sick, everyone catches it.” Furthermore, he emphasizes that there is no soap either: “A good shampoo used to be 4 euros and now a normal shampoo costs twice as much.”

The nurse concluded into the COPE microphone, “At the moment we have supplies because we just opened, but we have already run out of cream to treat skin infections, and we are moving on to Plan B, Which is oral antibiotics.”