The volunteer doctor arrived in Gaza during the ceasefire. On Tuesday, the war begins again

At about 2 or 2:30 in the morning, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa was knocked into the closet behind by the sound of his living area, causing him to fall asleep. It was March 18, and Israel resumed bombing Activity In Gaza, it has brought a strong end to the ceasefire agreement.

The 43-year-old is currently on his second volunteer trip to Gaza, working at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. He entered the territory on March 6, when the voices of war were silent.

But soon, the sound of chaos and explosion filled the air and Sidhwa was caught in another massive casualty.

“The situation changed dramatically on the morning of the 18th,” he told CBC News during a video call on Thursday. “But I hope this attack will be fully recovered when I am here, so it’s not surprising.”

The ceasefire came into effect on January 19, a three-phase-based deal that includes the issuance of hostages and prisoners, while postponing future negotiations in Gaza to the next phase of the truce.

The first phase, which is 42 days, focuses mainly on hostage releases, expires on March 1, and no agreement was reached in the second phase.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, on March 18, Israel resumed bombing campaigns, killing nearly 600 people and leaving the first phase of the ceasefire in chaos.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was “just started” Invasion Put pressure on Hamas to free all remaining hostages.

Sidhwa, a surgeon based in California, said he and his colleagues were in Nasser’s emergency room within 15 minutes of being awakened and saw the patient 10 minutes afterwards.

An hour later, he was on his first surgery that day.

Shield injury

The first thing he had to do that day was to explain to his father that his daughter could not survive her injuries.

“The three-year-old girl has multiple shrapnel injuries on her face and head, and her stinging breathing [signifying that oxygen is not getting to the brain] It was a very weak pulse, he said. Although she is not technically dead, she is still dead and we can do nothing about it. ”

He said the hospital had 250 to 300 people on the same day, of which “women and children were 40% or 50%”.

He said all the injuries he saw were from shrapnel.

“A very small but very powerful shrapnel that penetrates people’s bodies and causes damage to their hearts, lungs, abdomen and brain.”

He said he participated in six operations on Tuesday in the initial wave of surgery – three children, two women and a middle-aged man.

He said the ongoing bombing campaign lasted three to five hours. “Once you start working, you’re lost.”

Hundreds of people died and injured

In a statement to CBC News, MSF doctors said their team responded to the “influx” of patients at the Gaza centers in the south and central areas on Tuesday.

The statement said 55 people were killed and 113 were injured in Nasser, where Sidhwa is located. A field hospital in Deir Al Balah City suffered 10 injuries; at the city’s AL AQSA hospital, medical staff received 20 deaths and 68 injured patients.

Sidhwa said the surgery stopped after the medical team finally gained control of the emergency room.

Doctors without a border statement said the Gaza people “cannot afford the restart of this violence and destruction” and needed a continuous ceasefire. The group also called on Israel to allow aid and basic goods to enter the territory.

Tom Fletcher, a senior UN official, is briefing Salute to the UN Security Council, the group’s “greatest fear” as hostilities recover in Gaza.

He added that it also brought back “fear” to people in the territory.

Uneasy about your own safety

According to Israel Tales, the war was triggered after an attack led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and capturing about 250 people.

According to Gaza health officials, Israel has carried out a military campaign in which more than 49,000 Palestinians were killed. There are still thousands of people who are worried about still being buried and underage.

But while the ceasefire brought some relatively calm attitudes to the relative calm of the stripper while the ceasefire was ongoing, the effects of the war could be seen both inside and outside the hospital.

Sidhwa said while he spent most of his time in the hospital, he hasn’t ventured into the neighborhood since Tuesday, for obvious reasons. ”

But before the attack, he spent some time observing the apocalyptic scenes of Khan Yunis streets and buildings.

“Every building is damaged in some way,” he said.

“Some of them were carnival, some were…the floors collapsed from each other, and some had front cuts,” he said.

While he wasn’t surprised by the war’s recovery, Sidhwa said volunteer doctors in Gaza did make him feel uneasy about his safety.

“It’s hard to pretend [the explosions] He said: “Don’t scare you, but if a person wants to work in the Gaza Strip, he must accept that the Israelites can kill you at any time.”