UNICEF’s Spokesperson Shared A Heartbreaking Video From Gaza And Said "It Is Absolutely Out Of Control"
“The first room I’m in, there are four children, all shot by quadcopters,” Elder said. “We’re in a makeshift ICU because there are so many children.”
UNICEF’s spokesperson James Elder has shared testimony from Gaza, saying the situation in Gaza’s barely functioning hospitals is “absolutely out of control.”
On his fifth trip to Gaza since October 2023, Elder returned to film inside Al-Aqsa Hospital in the center of Gaza Strip, where UNICEF says the health system is on the verge of collapse.
In the video shared on Oct. 3, Elder described entering a small room that had become a makeshift intensive care unit.
“The first room I’m in, there are four children, all shot by quadcopters,” he said. “We’re in a makeshift ICU because there are so many children.”
Elder said some of the children were in critical condition because surgeons could not remove the shrapnel, and there were not enough resources or medicine to keep them stable.
Elder added that one child lay in his own blood on the corridor floor for five hours before a bed was available.
“As soon as he left the corridor, another wounded child went on to the floor,” he said. “His mother was just screaming, ‘Who around the world allows this to happen?’”
Only about 14 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals remain partially functional after almost two years of Israel’s genocide, according to the UN.
Those still open are operating several times beyond capacity, with doctors performing surgeries without anesthesia and newborns sharing oxygen supplies.
Hamas said on Friday, Oct. 2 it had accepted parts of US president Trump’s 20-point plan and agreed to release all Israeli hostages and hand over the administration of Gaza to a “Palestinian independent (technocratic) authority.”
Following Hamas' announcement, Trump called on Israel to “immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” to allow the safe and quick return of hostages.
However, Israel is still pounding Gaza with bombs.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has now killed more than 67,173 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children.
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