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Doctors at the Gaza European Hospital, southeast of Khan Yunis, warned of life-threatening complications for Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Abu Omar after he underwent a third surgery on Friday evening, while journalist Ahmed Matar is still lying in the intensive care room.
During the last operation, doctors performed repairs on the wounds in the left leg, in addition to repairing the tendons in the left ankle.
Our colleague Ismail needs specialized medical care amid fears of infections due to his serious wounds and lacerations in his arteries and veins.
Photojournalist Ahmed Matar is still lying in the intensive care room, connected to artificial respirators.
Doctors describe Matar's health condition as dangerous, as a result of being hit by shrapnel in the head after he and his colleague Abu Omar were targeted by Israeli bombing north of the city of Rafah.
The head of the American medical delegation to Gaza, Dr. Muhammad Al-Far, sent a distress call to expedite the removal of our colleague Ismail Abu Omar out of the Strip to complete the surgical operations he urgently needed, as a result of complications from being targeted by an Israeli bombing.
Dr. Al-Far said that the necessary capabilities to treat Ismail Abu Omar are not available in the Gaza Strip, warning of further deterioration in his condition due to the possibility of the infection spreading throughout his body.
Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Abu Omar and photojournalist Ahmed Matar were injured on Tuesday in the bombing of an Israeli march on the Mirage area, north of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Source: Al Jazeera