In light of the ongoing genocide and the suffocating siege on the Gaza Strip, the features of a human tragedy that goes beyond imagination are emerging, as everyone in the Strip, including medical personnel, have become victims of the Zionist repression machine. Hospitals are no longer just places to provide medical care, but have become a bank for the goals of the occupying entity that is trying to cut off any hope of providing treatment to the injured.

This bitter reality is clearly evident in the statements of the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safia, who confirmed: “The hospital is still suffering from the siege,” stressing that what is being circulated about the occupation allowing the entry of medical aid is “inaccurate.”

Abu Safia said in press statements: “The occupation forces prevented the World Health Organization from bringing in food, medicine, and specialized medical delegations, and that the organization’s ambulances were subjected to thorough inspection, and food was confiscated from them in the streets, before the accompanying medical delegation was forced to return.”

Abu Safiya explained, “The occupation allowed the entry of only 7 boxes of medical supplies out of 70 boxes required, which increases the severe shortage of supplies needed to treat the wounded, and the hospital loses a number of wounded people every day who turn into martyrs due to the absence of the necessary surgical specialties.”

In a related context, a team of international scientists and doctors issued an urgent appeal, calling for breaking the global silence regarding this genocide committed by the usurping entity. The team is headed by Italian geneticist Paola Manduca.

The scholars stressed that “medical organizations around the world must condemn the denial of treatment in Gaza, warning that silence on this situation will make these institutions complicit in the crimes against humanity committed there.”

The urgent appeal indicated “the presence of children and kidney dialysis patients in the intensive care unit at Kamal Adwan Hospital, at a time when hospitals are receiving hundreds of wounded and dead, and that the occupation has rejected 7 requests from the World Health Organization to evacuate hospitals.”

He reported that “about a thousand health care workers were killed, and 300 others were kidnapped, including 4 who died during detention. There were also recorded cases of the execution of a nurse in hospitals, and the killing of children by occupation snipers.”

After reading this article, dear reader, have you thought, like me, how long will Gaza remain a witness to the violation of the most basic human rights, in light of shameful international silence, and the cries for help from our Palestinian people getting louder and louder? Will we see someone who responds to the cries of these innocent, tortured people, or will history write about them as it wrote about other human tragedies, without any change.?!