Gazans sheltering in place at a school in Khan Yunis (Gaza) have turned some classrooms into makeshift hospital wards, placing air mattresses on tables, as hospitals in the region are overcrowded.
“We were discharged from the hospital because there were no more vacancies,” Salva Najjar, who is caring for her injured son at the school, told Reuters.
A Gaza Strip resident lost one of her children in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Yunis. The second son was partially paralyzed as a result of the same attack.
“We were also told to go to Al-Hilal (hospital), but it is full. We are waiting. My son needs treatment and care. We need help to cure him,” Najar added.
More than 8,525 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began airstrikes on the Hamas-ruled enclave in response to the Oct. 7 attacks in which Hamas killed 1,400 people in Israel and took more than 200 hostages, according to Gaza health authorities.
Last week, the Israeli army launched a ground operation in the Gaza Strip.
Author: Philippa Novais
Source: CM Jornal
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