- Two Australian doctors talk of horrors witnessed in Gaza at Al Shifa hospital.
- Dr Nada Abu Alrab and Dr Aziz talk of the horrors witnessed across Gaza from the Al Aqsa hospital to what’s left of the bombed Al Shifa hospital.
Two Australian doctors have called for an arms embargo on Israel after witnessing the horrors of Israel’s new offensive on Gaza City.
Dr Nada Abu Alrab and Dr Aziz Rahman had travelled from Al Aqsa hospital in central Gaza to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City in the north where Israel is currently carrying out its brutal offensive.
In what was meant to be a 20-minute journey on the road between the two hospitals, it took the doctors 8 hours to reach because of the logistical difficulties due to the intense bombing and damaged infrastructure.
Once they arrived at the hospital, they described the cataclysmic levels of suffering witnessed firsthand. Dr Nada Abu Alrab said: “As you can see, this is the hospital. It’s all bombed, but the bombing is still happening.
“When we came from the middle to the north, we saw people are evacuating. Instead of twenty minutes on the road, it took us around eight hours to reach.
“As soon as we reached, bombing after bombing with the Apache, F35, F16, row boats, all sorts of weapons attacking us from everywhere around the hospital, the number of patients and the number of dead bodies arriving are ridiculous. […] Today, they bombed just in front of the main entrance of the hospital. Two days ago, they did the same.”
The doctors later described the risk of their own safety, even while being Australian citizens.
Dr Alrab said: “In the middle of the mass casualty today, there’s no internet and no electricity.
Dr Seiya Aziz who previously worked as an anaesthetist in Australia had said that most of the victims were women and children and directly asked the Australian Parliament to spend a day with them.
She said: “And the worst part is it’s all children and women and young families, like, it’s a stain on our humanity, and I am ashamed to call myself human.
“I’m ashamed to be an Australian who has basically remained silent.
“The F-35 parts are not non-lethal, they are absolutely lethal, and I would challenge any minister, in the Australian parliament to come and spend a day here with us.”
“I would love for them to spend a day and then decide whether their F-35 parts are non-legal. So we need to have an arms embargo right now, enough is enough.”
Despite repeated government denials, leaked documents show that Australia has sent F-35 strike fighter jet parts directly from Australia to Israel in the midst of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.
Australia has claimed it will announce the recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly, which is to convene from 23-29 September.
The contrast in public political backing and real-life assistance in extermination and ethnic cleansing is something many Australians are waking up to.
The Greens have spoken out and have called for the Australian Labor government to stop supplying F-35 parts to a global supply chain that can be accessed by Israel and in addition, have called for direct sanctions on senior members of the Netanyahu government.
Currently the Australian Albanese-led government has made no decision to halt the supply, even when the impact could be significant.
No Real Medicine
In the shocking testimony, the doctors later described the lack of access to essential medicine and operating tools.
Dr Nada Abu Alrab said: “The only thing we have is ketamine. So you just want to give them something for comfort to not to die in a bad way in front of the parents or in front of their family or the other way around.
“I had a beheaded lady who’s nine months pregnant and we had to deliver by an emergency C-section in the emergency room.”
