PNN – European doctors who have returned from Gaza, while they cannot forget the terrible scenes of dismemberment of children and women, the biggest question they have is whether there is a shred of humanity left in Europe?
The doctors who voluntarily worked in the Gaza Strip from different countries of the world and have returned from this strip are among the most prominent witnesses of the Zionist regime’s genocidal crimes against the people of Gaza and describe the various dimensions of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
In this context, the French newspaper Le Monde reported that 5 doctors and two nurses who have carried out several humanitarian missions in the Gaza Strip since November 2023, talked about the humanitarian disaster of this strip and the impossibility of meeting the needs of the people.
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The hell of Gaza cannot be described with any words
Mehdi Al-Mollali, a French-born doctor in the emergency department who spent three weeks in Gaza, said in an interview with Le Monde newspaper: There are no words to accurately describe the hell of the Gaza Strip. A part of me is forever stuck in Gaza and it’s impossible for me not to think about it.
Francois Gordel, a French orthopedic surgeon, said: After I went to Gaza, I have become a different person and I can’t live like before. Gaza is a place where the bombing continues and people cannot escape and the entire population of this strip is affected by the humanitarian disaster.
Horrible scenes of patients being dismembered
5 doctors and 2 nurses, including 6 French and one Swiss, who participated in this interview, said that we were very shocked by the very high percentage of children among the victims and wounded in Gaza, and this situation shows the blind and aimless nature of the bombings of the Zionist army against Gaza.
According to this interview, the first thing the doctors saw after entering Gaza was the rubble and remains of destroyed buildings, and their ears were constantly filled with the loud sound of drones and explosions that split the sky, and this sound is still in their ears.
François Gordel, who went to Gaza with the Doctors without Borders team, said: I heard 5 to 6 rockets every minute, the bombardments were very intense, like a big earthquake, and the whole hospital was shaking with strong waves and the patients were being torn to pieces.
Karen Haster, a nurse who has conducted nearly 20 humanitarian missions around the world since 2014 and has been to Gaza three times in 2024 as director of medical operations for Doctors Without Borders, said: In one of the bombings, a very terrible situation happened in the hospital, patients were lying on the floor with their stomachs split open and their internal organs on the floor. When they died, we had to hide them in a corner and we didn’t have time to take them to the morgue, because the injured were arriving one after another.
Mahdi Al-Malali, a French doctor, said: I remember that we once admitted about 30 injured people from a family who were asleep at the time of the explosion to an Indonesian hospital. The mother of the family was very distraught and did not know what to do, she was informed that one of her sons had died, she kissed this son’s forehead and then looked for her other four children, but she never found them.
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Sonam Dreyer Cornot, a 36-year-old Swiss nurse, says: When I left at the end of my mission, two months after the complete siege of Gaza, there was no more flour left in Gaza and the people were very hungry. In Gaza, life is like a dismembered corpse, children in this strip never understand the meaning of childhood and are constantly hungry and in anxiety. These children can no longer move, speak and even cry.
Anesthesiologist and intensive care specialist Orly Godard said in an interview with Le Monde newspaper: I remember a man whose leg was badly injured in an explosion in Deir al-Balah and he said I have to go and bury my children. Hearing this sentence was very indigestible for me and I deeply thought.
Is there anything left of humanity in Europe?
This 44-year-old French doctor, who completed three missions in Gaza in 2024, said: Each time we saw more destruction in Gaza, today there is no place called Rafah anymore, Khan Yunis is completely destroyed, the north of Gaza is a desert and people are barely breathing without any hope.
Samir Adu, a 58-year-old orthopedic surgeon who performed his first mission in the war zone at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, says: I was very shocked when I saw that most of the victims and injured were women and children. I spoke to the media about what I saw in Gaza; about the hunger of amputated children and the horrors of war, but I heard no answer. Let’s talk about ourselves in France, about our humanity, do we have any humanity left.
Mahdi Al-Malali, a French doctor, emphasized in his interview with Le Monde newspaper: We survived the hell of Gaza thanks to our Palestinian colleagues, but the people of Gaza are still trapped. I remember very painful moments when doctors in Gaza talked about their pain and memories and the patience they have amazes us all.