Patients and their families are sheltering in Gaza’s only children’s cancer ward—which is now under threat of becoming an impact zone in the war.
Musa and Suhaila Nasir Pediatric Cancer Department—operates in Gaza City’s al-Rantisi hospital, in the northern part of the Palestinian enclave., the northern half of which is home to a million residents and 22 hospitals. The evacuation is “impossible” to carry out without “devastating humanitarian consequences,” a United Nations spokesperson said of Israel’s order at the time.
“And so those children remain and their families remain because they have no other options. Some of them require blood transfusions or platelet transfusions on a regular basis,” Salman said. “In addition to that, there are nurses, social workers, and others who have evacuated their homes,” she added.
In another clip, a young boy with a bald head named Adam—described as a leukemia patient by the staffer—is laying on the bed, with his brother hovering over him. The staffer asks the brother how he is feeling, and whether he is scared. He shakes his head, mumbling “no” in Arabic. More than 5,000 Gaza residents have been killed in Israeli airstrikes since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which Hamas militants killed some 1,400 Israeli citizens and took roughly 200 others hostage. Now, a looming ground invasion of Gaza is all but certain to add to the death count.For Sosebee, the horrors of the war go beyond the threat of a missile hitting the hospital.
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