rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Gaza- When I heard Hadeel Shehadeh that the European Gaza Hospital left the service, she said: “I felt suffocated, and I had bad feelings as if death was about to kidnap me,” thus summarized the patient who has been suffering from lymphoma for 8 years.
Sleep, Hadeel’s 35 -year -old sleep, after the violent targeting launched by Israeli warplanes on this hospital, southeast of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, which struck him with a fire belt on May 13, and is the only hospital that provides medical services for cancer patients after the occupation was destroyed by the “Turkish Turkish Friendship Hospital” in Gaza City and his departure completely.
After this targeting, the Ministry of Health announced the departure of the European Gaza Hospital from service, and according to the World Health Organization, this caused “the cessation of vital services, including neurosurgery, cardiac care and cancer treatment, which are not available throughout the other in the Gaza Strip.”
“It is a death sentence for thousands of patients,” Hadeel says to Al -Jazeera Net, as it appears from a chasm caused by Israeli air strikes on a devastating police station in the Al -Nasr neighborhood, north of Gaza City, where she resorted to her elderly parents, and the land was narrowed by what she welcomed, after the recent displacement from the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
Patient Hadeel Shehadeh has a medical treatment for treatment abroad since last October (Al -Jazeera)
death sentence
Hadeel discovered her cancer in 2017, and since then she has been a periodic review in the Palestinian -Turkish Friendship Hospital, which was blown up by the occupation forces a few weeks ago, as he was the only one who provides medical services to 10,000 patients with tumors and cancer in the sector.
After the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Strip after the Al -Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, 2023, Hadeel and her family were forced to flee from the northern Gaza Strip to the south, and it was repeatedly transferred from one place to another, and reaching the Friendship Hospital has become an almost impossible and task with great risks.
She says that “the war is more severe for us, we are patients, as we face death in shapes and colors,” and medical care in the European Gaza Hospital did not last to be a long alternative to friendship, and patients are now leaving the service facing a fate that is filled with the risk of death.
Hadeel has a medical divergence of treatment abroad since last October, but she was unable to travel due to the Israeli restrictions at the Kerem Abu Salem Commercial crossing, which is used by the occupation exceptionally for a few cases of patients, to become a substitute for the closed land crossing since the invasion of the city of Rafah on May 6, 2024.
And Delhly is one of the approximately 25 thousand patients and wounded who are waiting for the opportunity to travel on the treatment lists abroad, and she says that her treatment is not available in the sector, as she was living on painkillers obtained from the European Gaza Hospital, but she does not know what she will do after stopping work, amid the lack of treatment in the few pharmacies that are still working in the sector, as well as its material inability to buy it and if it is available.
Ali Hamed watches over the caring of his patient, Mona, who is cancer, was concerned about the European Hospital, Al -Jazeera
Patient without treatment
The “European” hospital was the last hope that connects the patient Mona Agha to life, and she was waiting for her to travel and treat abroad from stomach cancer, which she discovered 5 months ago, and spread throughout her body.
On a bed in the Al -Batinah department at Nasser Medical Complex, Mona, 30, received her exhausted body, since ambulances and other patients from the European Gaza Hospital were transferred, where he decided to evacuate him from patients, after being subjected to direct targeting.
And with a tongue heavy with pain, and in a few words she suffers from her pronouncement as she pants like someone who ran for a long distance, the Aga tells Al -Jazeera Net that “the situation here is very bad, and yesterday I felt death while waiting for a residence from severe pain.”
With the lack of a center of tumors in the Nasser complex, Ali Hamed, 37, owns his wife Mona for the lack of treatment and care, and says to Al -Jazeera Net: “In the European, there is a center specialized in tumors, and despite the war and the siege, care and medical service are much better for cancer patients.”
This patient is a mother of 4 children, and she lives in a tent built on the ruins of her destructive house in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, and with severe pain she says she is very anxious about herself and her children if the European Hospital leits long, and the medical care she was receiving there was stopped at the center of the tumors.
I congratulate Abu Mustafa, a patient with cancer and a mother of 6 children, who feared them after the martyrdom of her husband (Al -Jazeera)
On a nearby bed, the congratulations of Abu Mustafa, 38, sitting in a state of severe fatigue, as a result of her abdominal cancer, which she discovered after her husband was martyred in the first year of the war.
The congratulations of Abu Mustafa on her pain, and in a few words she spoke to Tel Aviv Tribune Net as if she was extracting her, she said that she was very concerned about her six children if she died, and she adds that her anxiety increased after the European Gaza Hospital left the service, and the lack of her treatment anywhere else in the sector.
Lurking
Tariq Al -Mahrouq, Director of the Gaza Cancer Center, asserts that “a real danger stares with thousands of cancer and tumors”, after the occupation targeted the European Gaza Hospital and caused physical damage to his salutation and internal departments, and his departure from service.
Al -Mahrouq – for Al -Jazeera Net – says that the transfer of these patients to the Nasser Medical Complex involves real risks to their lives, as this complex is not qualified to deal with cancerous diseases and tumors.
This health official indicates that the recent period witnessed a noticeable increase in the deaths of cancer patients, due to Israeli restrictions on the introduction of medicines and medical supplies, in addition to the restrictions imposed on travel for treatment abroad.
Israeli air strikes caused severe damage to the Infrastructure of the European Gaza Hospital (Al -Jazeera)
Even before the “European” departed from service, Al -Mahrouq estimates that 90% of cancer and oncology patients from the northern Gaza Strip were deprived of receiving medical service regularly, due to the dangers of the road to reach the hospital, in light of the occupation controlling Salah al -Din Street, and the complexities of movement through Al -Rashid Al -Sahili Street.
He said that 10,000 cancer patients were following in the Friendship Hospital before destroying and stopping it completely, and these are facing an unknown fate, as there is no medical destination where the necessary service and care are available to them throughout the sector at the present time.
