Shocking observations of a Gazan doctor about the conditions in Rafah city

The Guardian newspaper quoted a doctor’s shocking observations of the conditions in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, this source pointing out that the feeling of hopelessness and collective despair prevailed over this belief. is that the ongoing disaster in the Gaza Strip, which is caused by the attacks of the Zionist regime, has no way out.

The British edition of the “Guardian” newspaper quoted Behzad Al-Akhrs, a doctor active in the field of mental health, who wrote about the living conditions in the Gaza Strip before the war: My days had a certain routine, I went to the clinic for work, I saw my friends, I spent time with my family. I used to live a normal life, but now my family and I are displaced in Rafah, the Israeli army forced us to leave our house in Khan Yunis, and now we live in the worst conditions imaginable, our days are spent waiting, in lines It takes a long time to get two or three gallons of drinking water, food or simple flour to bake bread on the fire, and the electricity has been out for months.

Al-Akhras continued: In the past few days, when we heard that Israel was preparing for a ground attack on Rafah, we realized that we have nowhere else to go. Israel claims that it will evacuate civilians, but when there is no plan, how can we do that? Can we believe that we have seen what they have done time and again in the past, all we 1.4 million can do is wait for worse, life seems like an eternal day that never ends, full of suffering And it’s the horrifying scenes that blend in. It’s our new collective routine to hear and see and sit and walk by death. It seems.

This doctor said: I spent my professional life in the field of mental health and social harm in Gaza, but even that did not prepare me for the deep sense of hopelessness that now spreads in our society and disrupts everything. Almost all the people around me have lost members of their families, either killed in Israeli airstrikes or in shootings, or captured by the Israeli army, or displaced to other areas, this uncertainty is killing us slowly. We don’t know who will be the next person to die or lose their family.

He added: When a person faces a danger or a threat to his life, he will respond in three ways, fight, flee or stop, we cannot fight or flee, so many of us from four months ago until now We are a stopped nation. When you are in this state, you cannot behave normally or have normal feelings.

This doctor went on to say: When I am in the clinic in Rafah or when I am standing in the water line or talking to the neighbors, I see people’s faces empty of life and they are only masks of fear, despair and insensitivity.

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“Some days I don’t know how I can go on mentally, I don’t know how to wake up tomorrow morning and face the fact that this is real and live again every day with the sound of bombings and drones overhead,” al-Akhras continued. I can’t face new news of our loved ones being killed or injured. Like children, we think that our sense of security is rooted in our homes. A few days ago, we were told that our house in Khan Yunis was bombed. My first thought was, where are we going to go? Where will we live? When a person loses his home, this feeling of security disappears.

This Palestinian doctor went on to say: When the bombing of Rafah started, we were in a tent with my family, what can a thin sheet of nylon protect you from? These tents will never stop the shrapnel from hitting you and your family, so we are looking at the sky and watching the massive bombardment and waiting for our fate and we know exactly what the result of these attacks is, but what can we do?

He added: I want to die when we see the fear in the eyes of my brother’s daughters, we all try to be strong at the risk of our children, but we cannot hide this fact from them, they understand everything like us. Everywhere you go, you see children gathered around you, they have no parents and none of their family members are alive.

Al-Akhras further emphasized: In our opinion, this is not a war, but an endless bloodbath, and while the world is watching this mass killing, it does not take any action to prevent it, none of the events that happen to us, cannot be justified and no human being deserves to endure this kind of suffering.

He also said: We are worried that the warnings that Israel gives will be the basis of future events, they introduced all the people of the world to the idea of ​​attacking Rafah, so when we are killed, it will not be a shock. This issue will only be stopped by international intervention and the international community must continue to exert its immediate pressure to establish a permanent ceasefire, this is our only chance to escape from this situation.

Source: ISNA