In a gut wrenching story posted yesterday, Al Jazeera reported on volunteer doctors refusing to leave Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City despite the destruction wrought by Israeli attacks which generate an overwhelming number of patients each day. A volunteer Australian doctor currently working at the embattled Gaza City hospital said the medical staff are operating in horrible conditions. “The amount of resilience I saw in these doctors, they’re literally heroes,” she told Al Jazeera, adding that doctors, nurses and medical students are living and working at the hospital. “We’ve been here only for two weeks, and we just cannot understand the amount of trauma and hard work. I don’t think any human being can stay alive and tolerate what we’re going through.”
“We do not ask to leave, we are doctors and staff who remain here because we care, we are not above these people, we are with them,” she said in a video posted on Instagram. “What we ask is simple: stop the blockade that has made hospitals unlivable. Watching entire families die for lack of medicine is beyond human limits.”
