Bombs, famine, death… Gaza, devastated by nearly five months of conflict, is hoping for a truce. Despite international outrage and condemnation, nothing can stop the Israeli war machine. RFI collected testimonies which reflect the suffering of the inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Sami Boukhelifaand in Gaza, Rami Al Meghari
Al-Aqsa Hospital, in the center of the Strip Gaza. In a room, there is Abu Mohamed. This elderly man is a miracle, he survived an Israeli strike.
“ We all slept in the living roomhe testifies. The women were in a side room, but the men were in the living room. I was suddenly woken up in the middle of the night by an explosion. I tried to get up, but I couldn’t. I had multiple fractures in my legs. I leaned on my hands to stand up. »
After that, it’s the black hole. Abu Mohamed wakes up in the hospital. The news is hard. He lost 20 members of his family. “ I would have preferred to die. Why stay alive? Why this suffering? It is so hardhe said, his throat tight. Furthermore, the doctors told me that they were going to amputate. I had both legs amputated. »
At Al Aqsa Hospital, Abu Mohamed is accompanied by psychologist Arafat Abu Machayikh. “ This man adored his grandchildren. They are all dead. In psychology, we support people when they lose a loved one. But we don’t have a protocol for dealing with the loss of all of our family members. And I don’t think that one day we will be able to invent such a protocol. The sadness is endless. She is insurmountable », laments the healthcare professional.
In Gaza, Abu Mohamed has no chance of walking again. He was amputated above the knees. “ The only way to get him prosthetics is for him to go abroad », concludes the health professional.
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