Friend, health care in Gaza is under attack. 

I’m an emergency coordinator with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and I recently returned from Gaza, where I worked for two months. 

Like other health facilities in Gaza, my team at Al-Aqsa Hospital was not safe from bombings and attacks, and the hospital was consistently short of medical supplies, clean water, and electricity. The emergency department was in a permanent state of chaos, and on some days, we received more dead than injured patients. By the end of December, the hospital was operating far beyond its capacity.

Al-Aqsa Hospital is the only facility in the middle area of Gaza that offers trauma care. After being forced to briefly evacuate, MSF has returned to Al-Aqsa Hospital, and our teams are now providing medical and surgical wound care. On March 31, Israeli forces launched an airstrike that hit the yard of the Al-Aqsa Hospital compound where many internally displaced people are sheltering, just outside of the emergency room. People were killed and injured, and after the attack, part of the MSF team had to stop providing care. 

As we near six months since the escalation of the conflict in Gaza, MSF remains committed to providing urgently needed medical care in Gaza and continues to call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire. We cannot provide the level of care our patients need while bombing and drone strikes continue to threaten our hospitals.

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