The video titled “Devastation in Gaza unlike any other war zone American doctor has been to | 60 Minutes” sheds light on the catastrophic situation unfolding in Gaza due to the recent conflict between Hamas and Israel. The Israeli government’s swift response to Hamas’ attacks led to thousands of deaths and displacements in Gaza, with reports of journalists being barred from accessing the region to independently report on the crisis.
Aid workers, including American doctors like Dr. Narina Ahmed, share their harrowing experiences from inside Gaza, where they witness the dire lack of medical supplies and the heartbreaking loss of lives, especially among children. Dr. Ahmed, a critical care specialist from Pennsylvania, details the challenges of treating patients in a war zone where basic medications are scarce and surgeries are performed without anesthesia.
As the humanitarian crisis worsens, with reports of malnourished children and lack of clean water, the international community’s support is crucial to provide aid to the millions of people affected by the conflict. The video raises important questions about the role of aid organizations like UNRA in providing essential services in Gaza and the need for global cooperation to address the ongoing crisis.
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When the terrorist group Hamas Unleashed its barbaric attack inside Israel last October the response by the Israeli government was Swift Israel launched thousands of troops tanks and more than 45,000 bombs into Gaza decimating entire cities the Hamas run Gaza Ministry of Health says more than 29,000 people have
Been killed and nearly 2 million displaced numbers many in the Israeli press and the United Nations are reporting Israel has barred journalists from independently accessing the Gaza Strip defying the long-standing precedent of allowing reporters into war zones Aid workers say a catastrophic humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Gaza
But reporting on it has been challenging so we asked Aid workers including two Americans to share their view from inside Gaza over the last 142 days a warning it is difficult ult to watch the story will continue in a moment this was the scene at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza in late
January for weeks the hospital had been surrounded by fighting but another battle played out inside its crowded corridors doctors and nurses short on supplies and beds knelt on the floor as they tried to save bombing victims deeper in the hospital we saw Dr narina Med a critical care specialist from
Pennsylvania our CBS producer based in Gaza shot this video he has a small amount of free fluid as Dr Amed checked on the young victims of an air strike she treated the night before this 13-year-old boy did not survive the nurses notice his eyes are fixed and dilated which is a sign of
Brain death the Gaza Ministry of Health estimates 12,000 children have died here since the War Began there’s no room for that we met Dr Amed days after she left Gaza exhausted after working a two we stretch at Nasser we have mass casualties coming in in waves in a
Hospital that’s happening at least three or four times a night in one night mhm so you know regular day for me was seeing children with shrapnel injuries I have never in my life seen before with traumatic brain injury death happening in a fully treatable situation because the supplies
Are not available Dr Ahmed is the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants she grew up in Philadelphia and works at a hospital there she’s also the medical director of Med Global a us-based NGO that trains local healthc care workers in disaster and conflict zones 39 years old she’s worked in a half dozen War
Zones including six trips to Ukraine in the last 2 years yeah he does she told us Supply medicine shortages have deepened the suffering in Gaza it’s basic medications it’s pain medication there people getting limbs amputated without any anesthesia that’s that’s what’s that’s what we’re seeing on a day-to-day basis
And I can tell you that things that we have put into the PIP P line to get to Gaza can often take weeks to months weeks to months and you need them yesterday yeah how does what you’re seeing in Gaza compare to what you’ve seen in these other War zones and
Conflicts it is uh incomparable I would say um I don’t think I’ve seen this many uh children affected in any of the other War zones I’ve ever been to I don’t think I’ve seen this many people squeezed in a small area without any ability to leave um I don’t think I’ve
Been this close to the sound of missile strikes um with the house shaking or the hospital shaking while I’m trying to operate in the ICU so how do you function and operate when you can hear gunfire and explosions at your doorstep we go into like medical mission mode so bombs going
Off or not we are absolutely focused on what’s in front of us is it terrifying yes of course um do we think about it after the fact absolutely you know there are hospitals that are under siege this happened with shifa Hospital uh it happened with Naser hospital alal
Hospital just to name a few the UN reports more than 300 healthcare workers have been killed since the War Began in late January Dr ahed and four of her colleagues evacuated Nasser 10 days ago Israeli troops stormed the hospital claiming Hamas was hiding inside patients staff and thousands
Sheltering in the hospital spilled onto the street you know that the IDF has accused Hamas of hiding and operating in these hospitals did you see that at all I can really just talk about what I know and what I know is that the healthc care catastrophe in this H in these hospitals
That’s what I saw even as EXP expion surrounded the hospital last week teams from the World Health Organization made their way in 1 2 negotiating through the dark to evacuate 32 critical patients some of them children Aid workers say there are still patients and staff inside the hospital with no running water or
Electricity the international humanitarian law is clear healthcare workers humanitarians ambulances and hospitals should be respected and protected in all situations but unfortunately this is not the case in Gaza nbal Fark is the spokesperson for the Palestinian red crescent it’s part of the International Red Cross we met her in this call center
In rala in the Israeli occupied West Bank here operators dispatch emergency workers in Gaza 50 Mi away hello this is a recording of one of the calls the red crescent responded to the week we were there on January 29 the Israeli military ordered parts of Gaza City to evacuate so 15-year-old Leanne Hamada
And her family piled into their car to try and get to safety they’re shooting at us she tells the operator the tank is next to me are you hiding yes in the car we’re next to the tank then the line goes dead hello when the operator called back a child answers six-year-old hin
Rajab the girl’s cousin the tank is next to me she says I’m so scared please come please call someone to come and take me the red crescent says this is the ambulance they sent it was discovered along with the bodies of two Medics 12 days after they were dispatched when
Israeli Defense Forces left the area henra jaab was also killed the six-year-old’s body was found inside this car alongside five members of her family the IDF told us that the incident is still under review but has accused Hamas in the past of using ambulances to transport its Fighters
The story of hand it’s not the only story it’s absolutely dozens of Cs we’re getting since the beginning of the war in Gaza where we fa helpless because we are completely denied access to many areas in Gaza to only provide our Emergency Medical Services so what you’re describing is these people can’t
Leave it’s not safe for them to leave and you can’t get to them exactly this is what henra jaab and her family were trying to escapee we obtained this video from a un worker who was with one of the first teams allowed into Northern Gaza across this apocalyptic landscape
Images show 2/3 of Gaza has been flattened satellite images reveal how densely populated the 25m strip was before the war today most of the nearly 2 million residents displaced from their homes have evacuated to the South here 40 or more people pack into a room at a makeshift shelter hundreds share one
Bathroom those who can’t find space in the shelter settle in the sprawling sand pits of gaza’s 10th City in Rafa on the border with Egypt for gazin there is no way out we’re at the arz border crossing if you were traveling between Gaza and Israel you would have come through this
Terminal on October 7th Hamas stormed the terminal you can see the damage all around us obviously the terminal has been closed since then so now there is only one border crossing from Israel into Gaza and that’s for humanitarian Aid that Crossing is known as Kum Shalom
The IDF would not allow us to film there before the war more than 500 trucks carrying goods came through the crossing every day today on average about 85 trucks of Aid get through what are the top three things things that you need Scott Anderson is trying to get any Aid that
Does come in distributed Anderson is an army vet from Iowa who did two tours in Afghanistan Salam alikum 60 Minutes first met him in Gaza in 2014 when he served as the deputy director of operations for the UN relief and works agency known as unra Hi how
Are you after the War Began in October Anderson who’ retired returned to the job as you know as an American journalist we can’t get in there what is it that you see what is it like every day what you mostly see from people every day is trying to find food uh
Trying to stay warm and trying to find somewhere to use a bathroom I mean that’s what people’s lives consist of it’s very much a pressure cooker environment you can feel in the air it’s tense there is no commercial food available in Gaza and the UN says 70% of
People don’t have access to clean water so nearly 2 million Gins are dependent on aid for all their food and water last week UNICEF reported that one in six children under the age of two in Northern Gaza is severely malnourished everybody’s reliant on the International Community the international humanitarian
Community to provide their basic necessities you in an Ideal World there’d be 600 trucks a day coming into Gaza you’re nowhere close to that number we’re nowhere close to that number what’s the problem is the hold up in the inspection you have two governments in the UN and a lot of people involved
There are the security inspections of the of the goods which I understand the Israelis have said the problems on the UN side I would say that is entirely not true it’s not just a un every day there’s a couple hours where nothing moves okay and that’s not us there’s
Just nothing to get for 70 years unra has been the largest Aid organization in Gaza providing food education and medical care but to its critics including some Israelis the agency is corrupt last month Israel accused 12 of under’s 13,000 employees of helping to plan and carry
Out the October 7th attacks the UN fired those employees but 16 countries including the US have stopped funding the organization while investigations are ongoing I’m shocked that somebody associated with the UN could do that but unfortunately throughout history many individuals have betrayed organizations that they work for betrayed the values
We do uphold un values humanitarian principles and we are responding to the best of our ability in Gaza right now if unra collapses who would do the work that you’re doing there’s nobody that can do the work we do un is the backbone of the operation and without us the operation
Will collapse on Thursday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said said he wants to completely shut down unra for the first time Netanyahu outlined his plan for Gaza after the war which included allowing the Israeli military to operate in Gaza indefinitely the IDF has begun an internal review of its shortcomings
Before and during the October 7th attacks amid ongoing negotiations a member of Israel’s war cabinet announced that if the 134 hostages are not home in two weeks Israel will launch a ground offensive in Rafa where more than a million and a half people are Sheltering the US urged Israel to refrain warning
It could worsen an already catastrophic [Applause] situation
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