TESTIMONY
In Gaza, the insurmountable suffering of a survivor of Israeli bombings
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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Injured people at al-Aqsa hospital in the Gaza Strip, January 7, 2024 (illustrative image).
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem,
Sami Boukhelifa
, and in Gaza,
Rami Al Meghari
Al-Aqsa Hospital, in the central Gaza
Strip
.
In a room, there is Abu Mohamed.
This elderly man is a miracle, he survived an Israeli strike.
“
We all slept in the living room
,” he 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's so hard
, he 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.
It 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 prostheses is for him to go abroad
,” concludes the health professional.
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