‘Our requests to evacuate patients are being rejected by Israel’ – Gaza medic cries for help

‘Our requests to evacuate patients are being rejected by Israel’ – Gaza medic cries for help Israel closed off the Rafah checkpoint five months ago, subjecting the sick and wounded to being stuck without medical treatment, the head physician of the Shuhadaa al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza’s Iyad al-Jabri area told Sputnik. Israel’s merciless year-long ground operations in Gaza have created a healthcare disaster in the enclave. Vital vaccines, even the ones for kids, have not been able to reach the region. “Those months were enough for the collapse of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip. There are no consumables or medicine,” he said. The requests to evacuate patients are being rejected by Israel, even requests from international organizations are being rejected, the doctor noted. “We need to open the checkpoint and get all the patients who are suffering from a lack of medical care out. They need to be given proper medical care,” he emphasized. Source: Geopolitics Live