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Systemic destruction of healthcare in Gaza | WEBCLIP VERT ENG

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Systemic destruction of healthcare in Gaza | WEBCLIP 16/9 ENG

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Marie-Aure Perreaut Revial MSF Emergency Coordinator

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB185315

Date taken / Date Recorded 18/01/2024 12:00 AM

Country Palestinian Territories

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Julien Dewarichet

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Duration 3m31s

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One of our colleagues was injured

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after the house of his neighbor
was bombed

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and he was bleeding.

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And his daughter told him :

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“The doctors don't bleed.”

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Well, they do.

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In Gaza, they bleed open.

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I was in Gaza throughout
November and December 2023.

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I was leading the team back into Gaza,
since the beginning of the war.

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We initially went to Khan Younis
and to Nasser Hospital,

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where our colleagues from Gaza
had been setting up

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a surgical unit
to try and support the hospital.

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Khan Younis was already hosting

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an insanely high number
of displaced from the north.

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So that's why we decided
to focus on primary health care as well.

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Supporting the Shuhada Health Center,
which is the biggest health center

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in Khan Younis.

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The health center
before the war was seeing

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about 200 outpatients
consultations per day.

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In about a week,
we were seeing 600 patients

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in our outpatients services.

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Half of them were children
under the age of five,

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coming for conditions
such as diarrhea,

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respiratory tract infections,
skin disease such as scabies, etc..

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All of these are clear,
very clear illustrations of the horrible,

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horrific living conditions
that these people were left in.

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Just at the beginning of December,
when the conflict moved

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very much to the south,

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the health center was ordered
to evacuate.

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So we had to stop
providing health care for these people.

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So all those 300 children
that were under five

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that we were seeing every week
no longer had access to health care.

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This is really part of

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the systematic destruction
of health care

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that we're seeing in Gaza now.

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The staff
have been working for over 100 days

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nonstop around the clock,
seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

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My colleagues were up in the operation
theater until 1 a.m., 2 a.m.

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every day.

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Every day, nonstop
for more than three months.

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They're beyond exhausted at this point.

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They come to the hospitals,
they see horrific scenes.

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They see children really badly burned,

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badly injured,
their entire faces burned,

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eyes are gone,

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babies with no legs anymore
that you need to amputate.

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The weight that we put on
the health care providers in Gaza,

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it's not something
anybody can ever cope with.

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The mental health trauma

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of what is going on now
in Gaza is beyond words.

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We hear five year old children
who told us that

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they would rather die
than continue living.

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We were doing drawing sessions
for children.

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They drew the scenes
of their entire family being killed.

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They drew bodies of their mothers with
a leg on the side or an arm on the side.

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It is just gruesome.

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Is there a coping mechanism

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that you can give children
who've lost everything ?

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And they don't know where to go.

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They don't know what
the future will be.

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There is no schools left.

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They've lost their entire family.

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They don't have shelters.
They don't have anything left.

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Nothing will provide relief,
nothing will alleviate the suffering

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but a ceasefire.

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The first thing we need

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to provide
humanitarian support

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is a ceasefire.