• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    6 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    AMMAN, Jordan — When Zain Abu Obeid died on Sunday at the last functioning hospital in Rafah, there was no one to collect the 7-year-old boy’s body from the morgue.

    He had been injured in an Israeli airstrike that killed his entire family, according to members of a U.S. medical team trapped at the European Hospital following Israel’s closure of the nearby border crossing.

    The only light is coming from outside," Dr. Ammar Ghanem, vice chair of the Syrian American Medical Society, said in a video that he filmed on Monday and sent to NPR.

    Israel has told civilians to evacuate Rafah — where 1.3 million people who’ve fled fighting in other parts of Gaza have been crammed up against the Egyptian border.

    According to the World Bank and the U.N., seven months of fighting has destroyed most of Gaza’s infrastructure and the imported fuel runs everything from hospital ventilators to bakery ovens.

    Johnston, in a phone interview from the hospital, talked of flies infesting the operating room and the intensive care unit.

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  • blahsay@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Plenty of warning given to evacuate. Why stay and complain you can’t evacuate? Weird

    • Lath@kbin.earth
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      6 months ago

      Think of it like this:

      • the other party has a known history of shooting anything that moves
      • as medical volunteers they went there to treat the wounded, many of which are likely unable to evacuate, and they lack the resources needed to at least get them moving
      • abandoning the wounded pretty much defeats the purpose of them going there in the first place
    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Evacuate to where exactly?

      This is not a rhetorical question. Literally, where will you have them evacuate to and how?

      • mightyfoolish@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        They want them to evacuate to the desert and die of starvation or dehydration. They won’t say the quiet part out loud because they think they are smarter than the rest of Earth’s population.

    • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      move your whole family and pets and everything in that short amount of time. nevermind that house was your retirement, and your children’s future. you now have no money and no job and no home. leave everything you own. your entire lineage is now homeless.

      I don’t think staying is weird. I think most Americans would do the same.