Recent shootings by Israeli forces of Palestinians trying to get desperately needed food aid have forced doctors in Gaza to scramble to save their patients’ lives — going so far as donating their own blood to make up for the territory’s near-empty blood banks and destroyed health care system.
A U.S.-Israeli aid distribution system began bringing in small amounts of food aid into Gaza last week, after the Israeli military spent three months blocking all aid from entering the territory and worsening an already horrific starvation crisis. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) forces Palestinians to trek to militarized distribution points, a system widely condemned by human rights groups, aid organizations and the United Nations.
But since the distribution began, witnesses say Israeli forces repeatedly opened fire on the starving population trying to receive food at the hubs — killing more than 100 Palestinians and wounding nearly 500 in attacks over the last week, health officials said.
“I was shot at 3:10 a.m.. As we were trapped, I bled constantly until 5 a.m.,” Palestinian civilian Mohammad Daghmeh said in a statement taken by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Daghmeh was one of many wounded on Sunday while waiting at the GHF distribution hub in Rafah, the southernmost area of Gaza that Israeli forces have essentially rendered uninhabitable.
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