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Gaza Hospital Is Overwhelmed With Wounded
Frantic doctors tended to patients on a blood-smeared hospital floor and operated on cafeteria tables, as medics rushed in with more wounded and mangled bodies.
Next time I shop at Home Depot, I swear to Allah-ha-ha-ha to buy more brick and mortar and to stay away from the nails and ball bearings aisle.
On one of the deadliest days in Gaza in four years -- 26 Palestinians were killed and at least 131 wounded Thursday -- even battle-tested medical staff were overwhelmed.
Only 26, I was hoping for few more. AP has minimum of 30 before promoting propaganda
"This sight I haven't seen since the beginning of the intefadeh," said ambulance driver Ahmed Abu Sal, one of the first to evacuate casualties after an Israeli tank shell was fired at a group of gunmen near Jebaliya's market, but also hit bystanders. Many of the wounded were given emergency treatment at two small clinics in Jebaliya, including the Kamal Adwan Hospital, which was closest to the fighting. Kamal Adwan has only 25 beds and one operating room. Desperate for extra space to treat the wounded, officials opened the hospital cafeteria and the doctor's private quarters for operations. Some were even treated on the floor.
Hey Mohammed, I told you we need more hospitals. I just can't handle the all these dead and injured 9 year old human shields.
Two scorched bodies were carried in on stretchers. "There is no hospital in the world that can handle the arrival of a group of wounded and dead in less than three minutes," said Dr. Mahmoud Asali, the hospital director. Residents rushed to the hospital in search of loved ones. Dozens thronged the emergency room entrance seeking information on the dead and wounded.
Paleo hospital=Center for Operations & Planning in the extermination of Jooooos. Also included, mask changing rooms for Hamas.
Several hours after the start of the army's push into the Jebaliya camp, all hospitals in northern Gaza declared a state of emergency. Health officials called on all doctors to report to work, and radio stations asked listeners to donate blood.
"You! Got any blood?"
"Uhhh... Yeah. I think so."
"Gimme it!"
The bloodiest incident was the Israeli tank fire near the Jebaliya market. The army said soldiers fired a shell toward a group of gunmen in the crowded market area after the militants fired an anti-tank shell in their direction. Maj. Gen. Dan Harel, the army's Gaza commander, said he regretted the loss of innocent life. "We are very sorry that civilians are being hurt," said Harel, blaming Palestinian militants for using civilian areas for launching attacks against Israeli troops.
"You stand around krazed killers while they're poppin' off antitank rounds, don't be surprised to catch something in return."
Abu Sal, the ambulance driver, said the scene of flying body parts and charred corpses was the worst he has witnessed in four years of fighting. Abu Sal said he put one wounded man in the back of his ambulance together with all the body parts he had collected. "In the interest of speed, I threw him in the back of the ambulance with the body parts, because I had no choice," he said.
"Hey! Wait! That's not my lip!"
The Israeli push into Jebaliya came after a Palestinian rocket attack killed two preschoolers in an Israeli border town Wednesday.
Posted by: Poison Reverse 2004-09-30
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