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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Staff at Rafah's Kuwaiti Hospital evacuating patients under Israeli fire: Surgeon
2024-05-28
Is the surgeon also Hamas, or merely carefully knowing nothing as a human shield?
[Al Jazeera] We’ve been covering the closure of Rafah’s main medical facility, the Kuwait Specialist Hospital, following an Israeli attack that killed two of its staff members.

Dr Mohammed Tahir, an orthopaedic surgeon, who just returned to the United Kingdom after volunteering in Rafah, described the situation at the hospital.

"I’ve [just] got off the phone to some of my colleagues who I worked with [in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
] and they are experiencing artillery fire and quadcopters attacking very nearby. They are in fear for their lives," Tahir told Al Jazeera.

"It’s a dire situation. This is in Tal as-Sultan, which is in the west of Rafah. This is an area which has not been evacuated and yet there is very fierce, very fierce attacks happening as we speak," Tahir said.

"The Kuwaiti hospital was evacuated, that is the main hospital and they are moving to al-Mawasi, where they have a field hospital, which is not quite ready. And in the meantime, FIERCE quadcopters [...] are restricting the movements of ambulances. So those that are injured cannot even receive help," he said.

"The international community needs to do more. We need to allow for medical personnel to enter Gaza. We need to allow medical provisions to enter Gaza. All these hospitals are experiencing diminishing supplies of very critical medicines and also fuel to run [...] so the situation is terrible there and I urge the international community to please act."
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Posted by:Fred

#6  "Never mind the patients. We can always get more patients. For the love of Allan, save the coffee maker!"
Posted by: SteveS   2024-05-28 10:19  

#5  Gee yet another hospital I've never heard of! What is this, a tent with a first aid kit? That's enough to call it a hospital?

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2024-05-28 09:46  

#4  Duck and Cover, guys!
Posted by: Raj   2024-05-28 09:20  

#3  "It’s a dire situation.

Of your own making.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-05-28 05:57  

#2  They were told weeks ago to move.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-28 03:54  

#1  Note that he is safely in the UK.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2024-05-28 02:56  

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