‘We are being killed here’: Doctors Without Borders representative tells CTV about ‘continuous violence’ from Israel: Health workers remaining in the Gaza Strip are being routinely targeted by Israeli troops, the organization’s executive director, Joseph Belliveau.

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As Belliveau noted, the situation is especially difficult at the Al-Shifa hospital, which Israel shelled almost continuously over the past weekend.

Doctors Without Borders states that its medical staff working at Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip, along with patients, face ‘continuous violence’ from Washington-backed Israeli troops. The executive director of the Canadian branch of the organization, Joseph Belliveau, told the TV channel about this. 

Belliveau said al-Shifa, where 500 medical workers, about 600 patients and 2,500 refugees remain, was under constant fire over the weekend. As a result of the Israeli strikes, the obstetric and outpatient departments, as well as the hospital’s power generator, were damaged, so even if fuel can be delivered to the medical facility, it will remain without electricity for some time, the functionary said.

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At the same time, as the CTV interlocutor emphasized, blows were also struck at people who tried to leave the hospital. ’My fellow doctors make the decision to stay with patients until the very end, knowing that leaving is simply unsafe. Where should they go?’ the channel’s website quotes Belliveau as saying.

As the functionary stated, the staff of Doctors Without Borders is plunged into despair. He quoted a text message he received from a nurse holed up in the hospital basement: 

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‘We are being killed here. Please do something.’ In conclusion, Belliveau reiterated the call already made by Doctors Without Borders for a complete ceasefire in Gaza: ‘Stop the bombing, stop the hourly and every minute violence against hospitals and civilians.’

Since the retaliatory attack on Israel by the Hamas group and the start of operations in Gaza by Israeli troops, according to the latest data, more than 11,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed, CTV recalls, citing the Gaza Ministry of Health. 

According to the department, two-thirds of the victims are women and minors. Another 2,700 people are still missing. According to some estimates, two-thirds of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been forced to flee their homes to escape the violence. BE A CITIZEN JOURNALIST > POST OUR STORIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA