A Palestinian doctor was forced to operate on his daughter in his own home

The attacks in Gaza are not stopping. The situation is so serious that medical operations are being carried out without any equipment. Palestinian doctor Hani Basiso was forced to perform surgery on his daughter Girl, 18, injured by Israeli bombardment in her own home.

inability to reach the nearest hospital, and Using little more than scissors and gauze Which he carried in his medical bag, he removed the lower part of A’head Busiso’s right leg.

“What did we do wrong? I’m operating on the dining room table. He’s got a ruptured artery.” I am amputating my daughter’s leg without anesthesia“, the man laments. “What kind of injustice is this?” he adds.

“Can I take him to the hospital? Of course not.”Besiso described the area as “under siege”. “The tanks were at the entrance of the house,” says the father.

Ahed Basiso is part of a generation of disabled youth emerging from the ongoing war in Gaza. Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7According to Israeli calculations, about 1,200 people were killed and 253 were taken hostage.

The World Health Organization (WHO) condemns this The conditions under which people are now trying to survive are ‘tyrannical’Recognizing that the crisis situation in Gaza is at its peak and calling for an immediate ceasefire.