{"id":46880,"date":"2023-11-19T09:40:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T15:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=46880"},"modified":"2023-11-19T09:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T15:40:41","slug":"las-heridas-abiertas-de-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=46880","title":{"rendered":"[:es]Las heridas abiertas de Gaza[:en]The Undressed Wounds of Gaza[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]<strong>Por: Amy Goodman y Denis Moynihan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La escritora neozelandesa Em Berry public\u00f3 recientemente un poema titulado \u201cPor nuestra culpa\u201d (Because of us), que dice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Esta ma\u00f1ana he aprendido<br \/>\nque la palabra inglesa &#8216;gauze&#8217;<br \/>\n(tela m\u00e9dica finamente tejida)<br \/>\nproviene de la palabra \u00e1rabe [\u2026] &#8216;Ghazza&#8217;<br \/>\nporque los gazat\u00edes han sido h\u00e1biles tejedores durante siglos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Me pregunt\u00e9 entonces<br \/>\ncu\u00e1ntas de nuestras heridas<br \/>\nse habr\u00e1n curado<br \/>\ngracias a ellos<br \/>\ny cu\u00e1ntas de las suyas<br \/>\nhan quedado abiertas<br \/>\npor nuestra culpa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>El poema de Berry resulta dolorosamente oportuno, dado que las fuerzas armadas israel\u00edes, despu\u00e9s de varias semanas de bombardear objetivos civiles \u2013entre ellos escuelas, hospitales y ambulancias\u2013, han ampliado la invasi\u00f3n terrestre de la Franja de Gaza y est\u00e1n atacando centros m\u00e9dicos directamente con tanques y soldados.<\/p>\n<p>Seg\u00fan la Organizaci\u00f3n Mundial de la Salud, 26 de los 36 hospitales de Gaza han tenido que cerrar, debido a que se les ha negado el suministro de electricidad, combustible y la reposici\u00f3n de insumos m\u00e9dicos y han sufrido da\u00f1os a causa de los ataques israel\u00edes. Muchos pacientes murieron debido a que respiradores, incubadoras y m\u00e1quinas de di\u00e1lisis han quedado inutilizables. El personal que ha quedado atrapado en el hospital Al-Shifa, el m\u00e1s grande de Gaza, cav\u00f3 una fosa com\u00fan para enterrar a m\u00e1s de 180 pacientes fallecidos.<\/p>\n<p>La ofensiva militar israel\u00ed tambi\u00e9n caus\u00f3 la muerte de unos 200 trabajadores m\u00e9dicos. Entre ellos, el doctor Hammam Alloh, un m\u00e9dico internista y nefr\u00f3logo de 36 a\u00f1os de edad que trabajaba en el hospital Al-Shifa y perdi\u00f3 la vida el s\u00e1bado 11 de noviembre cuando Israel bombarde\u00f3 su casa. Su padre, su suegro y su cu\u00f1ado tambi\u00e9n murieron en el ataque. Lo sobreviven su esposa y sus dos hijos peque\u00f1os.<\/p>\n<p>El doctor Alloh habl\u00f3 con Democracy Now! el 31 de octubre, dos semanas antes de su muerte:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLos pocos camiones con ayuda para la poblaci\u00f3n de Gaza a los que se les ha permitido ingresar resultan insuficientes en comparaci\u00f3n con nuestras necesidades [\u2026]. Guantes, gasas\u2026 no es precisamente lo que estamos necesitando. Estamos necesitando insumos y dispositivos m\u00e9dicos, medicamentos [\u2026] para brindar una atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica eficaz a las personas afectadas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edas antes, el doctor Alloh hab\u00eda tomado una decisi\u00f3n sumamente dolorosa: hab\u00eda instruido a su personal que suspendiera el procedimiento de reanimaci\u00f3n de una paciente de edad avanzada, ya que el hospital no contaba con un respirador en funcionamiento disponible para ella. Sin un respirador, aunque la reanimaci\u00f3n hubiera resultado exitosa, la paciente inevitablemente habr\u00eda terminado muriendo. Alloh hab\u00eda ordenado al personal m\u00e9dico y de enfermer\u00eda priorizar la atenci\u00f3n y concentrarse en salvar a aquellas personas con posibilidades de sobrevivir.<\/p>\n<p>A pesar de los constantes bombardeos de Israel y la inminente invasi\u00f3n terrestre, el doctor se neg\u00f3 a abandonar el lugar:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSi me voy, \u00bfqui\u00e9n cuidar\u00e1 a mis pacientes? No somos animales. Tenemos derecho a recibir una atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica adecuada. As\u00ed que no podemos irnos sin m\u00e1s. \u00bfCreen que fui a la facultad de medicina y que hice mis estudios de posgrado durante 14 a\u00f1os para pensar solo en mi vida y no en mis pacientes? [\u2026] Esta no es la raz\u00f3n por la que me hice m\u00e9dico\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Esa valiente decisi\u00f3n le cost\u00f3 al doctor Hammam Alloh la vida. Un miembro de su familia le inform\u00f3 a Democracy Now! que el cuerpo de Alloh permanece enterrado bajo los escombros. El hospital Al-Shifa, mientras tanto, se ha convertido en una zona de guerra.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/blog_posts\/40\/69740\/splash\/SEG3-DrAlloh-withKids.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Alloh y sus hijos\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>El m\u00e9dico noruego Mads Gilbert, quien trabaj\u00f3 durante muchos a\u00f1os en Gaza, dijo a Democracy Now!: \u201cSi tuviera que elegir hoy entre el infierno y Al-Shifa, elegir\u00eda el infierno\u201d. En las \u00faltimas semanas, Gilbert ha intentado repetidas veces entrar en Gaza, para llegar al hospital, pero no ha podido. \u201c20 de los 23 pacientes de las unidades de cuidados intensivos del hospital han fallecido. Otros 17 pacientes murieron por falta de suministros m\u00e9dicos, ox\u00edgeno y agua. Y tres, o cinco, de los 38 beb\u00e9s prematuros han muerto a causa de esta lenta asfixia a la que el Ej\u00e9rcito de ocupaci\u00f3n israel\u00ed est\u00e1 sometiendo a todos los hospitales [\u2026]. No tengo palabras para describir esta matanza de pacientes en hospitales civiles, perpetrada por seres humanos de manera sistem\u00e1tica\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Aunque el doctor Mads Gilbert no logre encontrar las palabras, las que el fallecido doctor Hammam Alloh pronunci\u00f3 durante la entrevista con Democracy Now! constituyen un llamado p\u00f3stumo a la acci\u00f3n:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNecesitamos que esta guerra termine, porque somos seres humanos de verdad. No somos animales. Tenemos derecho a vivir en libertad [\u2026], [pero] nos est\u00e1n exterminando. Estamos siendo erradicados de manera masiva. Dicen que les importa [el derecho] humanitario, [la protecci\u00f3n de] los derechos humanos, pero no es lo que estamos viviendo aqu\u00ed. Para demostrar que estamos equivocados, hagan algo, por favor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>De los 2,3 millones de habitantes de la Franja de Gaza, al menos 1,6 millones se han visto obligados a abandonar sus hogares a causa de la ofensiva israel\u00ed contra el territorio palestino. A principios de esta semana, Israel lanz\u00f3 panfletos sobre diversas partes de la sure\u00f1a ciudad de Jan Yunis en los que se ordenaba a los residentes a abandonar la ciudad. Para muchos de ellos se tratar\u00eda de la segunda vez que se ven obligados a huir, tras haber tenido que abandonar sus hogares en el norte de Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Mientras tanto, despu\u00e9s de cuatro intentos fallidos, el Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas aprob\u00f3 este mi\u00e9rcoles su primera resoluci\u00f3n respecto a la actual guerra en Gaza, en la que pide pausas humanitarias prolongadas en el enclave ocupado. Estados Unidos se abstuvo en la votaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>El difunto poeta palestino Mahmoud Darwish, de ni\u00f1o, sobrevivi\u00f3 a la Nakba, que en \u00e1rabe significa \u201ccat\u00e1strofe\u201d, un acontecimiento ocurrido en 1948 en el que 15.000 palestinos murieron y 750.000 fueron expulsados de sus hogares en el marco de la creaci\u00f3n del Estado de Israel. Darwish vivi\u00f3 gran parte de su vida en el exilio y fue cr\u00edtico de la organizaci\u00f3n Ham\u00e1s. En su poema titulado \u201cA un joven poeta\u201d, Darwish escribi\u00f3:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUn poema en un momento dif\u00edcil<br \/>\nson hermosas flores en un cementerio\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>En un momento en que la Organizaci\u00f3n Mundial de la Salud ha advertido que los hospitales de Gaza se est\u00e1n convirtiendo en cementerios, es hora de hacer caso a poetas y m\u00e9dicos y detener la matanza, poner fin a la ocupaci\u00f3n y curar las heridas abiertas de la guerra.[:en]<\/p>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p><b>By Amy Goodman &amp; Denis Moynihan<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Em Berry recently published a poem, \u201cBecause of Us,\u201d that reads,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This morning I learned<br \/>\nThe English word gauze<br \/>\n(finely woven medical cloth)<br \/>\nComes from the Arabic word [\u2026] Ghazza<br \/>\nBecause Gazans have been skilled weavers for centuries<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I wondered then<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>how many of our wounds<br \/>\nhave been dressed<br \/>\nbecause of them<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>and how many of theirs<br \/>\nhave been left open<br \/>\nbecause of us<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Berry\u2019s poem is painfully timely, as the Israeli military, after weeks of bombing civilian targets (including schools, hospitals and ambulances) has expanded its ground invasion, attacking hospitals directly with tanks and troops.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organization (<span class=\"caps\">WHO<\/span>), 26 of Gaza\u2019s 36 hospitals are non-functional, denied electricity, fuel, supplies and damaged by Israel\u2019s assault. Inoperable incubators, respirators, and dialysis machines have left patients to die. Staff trapped at Al-Shifa, Gaza\u2019s largest hospital, dug a mass grave to bury over 180 dead patients.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has also killed an estimated 200 medical workers. Among them, Dr. Hammam Alloh, a 36-year-old internist and nephrologist at Al-Shifa, killed along with his father, father-in-law and brother-in-law on Saturday, November 11th, when Israel shelled his home. He is survived by his wife and two young children.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Alloh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2023\/10\/31\/israel_gaza_ground_invasion\">spoke on the Democracy Now! news hour on October 31st,<\/a> two weeks before his death:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe few trucks that were allowed in with aid to Gazan people is almost nothing compared to what we need,\u201d Dr. Alloh said. \u201cWater, gloves and gauze, this is not what we are looking for. We are looking for devices, medications\u2026 for providing real healthcare for people in need.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Days earlier, Dr. Alloh made an excruciating decision, ordering his staff to stop resuscitating an older patient, as the hospital lacked a working ventilator for her, so, even if successfully resuscitated, the patient would still die. He instructed the doctors and nurses to triage care, saving those with a chance of survival.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Israel\u2019s constant bombardment and approaching ground invasion, Dr. Alloh refused to leave:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I go, who treats my patients? We are not animals. We have the right to receive proper health care. So we can\u2019t just leave,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2023\/10\/31\/israel_gaza_ground_invasion\">he said.<\/a> \u201cYou think I went to medical school and for my postgraduate degrees for a total of 14 years so I think only about my life and not my patients?\u2026This is not the reason why I became a doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That brave decision cost Dr. Hammam Alloh his life. A family member wrote Democracy Now!, saying his body remains buried under rubble. Al-Shifa, meanwhile, has become a war zone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/blog_posts\/40\/69740\/splash\/SEG3-DrAlloh-withKids.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Alloh with his children\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I should choose today between hell and Al-Shifa, I would choose hell,\u201d Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician with decades of experience in Gaza, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2023\/11\/15\/al_shifa_hospital_raid_mads_gilbert\">said on Democracy Now!<\/a> He tried repeatedly to get into Gaza in recent weeks, to get to Al-Shifa, without success. \u201cTwenty out of the 23 <span class=\"caps\">ICU<\/span> patients had died. Seventeen other patients died because of lack of supplies, oxygen and water. And three, if not five, of the 38 premature newborns have died because of this slow suffocation that the Israeli occupation army is exposing all the hospitals to\u2026I\u2019m out of words to describe this systematic, man-made slaughtering of patients in civilian hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While words may fail Dr. Mads Gilbert, those of the late Dr. Hammam Alloh on Democracy Now! offer a posthumous call to action:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need this war to end, because we are real humans. We are not animals. We have the right to live freely\u2026we are being exterminated. We are being mass[ive]ly eradicated. You pretend to care for humanitarian and human rights, which is not what we are living now. To prove us wrong, please do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least 1.6 million Palestinians have been displaced by Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, out of the enclave\u2019s population of 2.3 million. Earlier this week, Israel dropped leaflets on the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, warning residents to flee \u2013 many for the second time, after fleeing northern Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Security Council passed its first resolution Wednesday, after four previous, failed attempts, calling for extended humanitarian pauses in Gaza, with the United States abstaining.<\/p>\n<p>The late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, as a child, survived the 1948 Nakba, Arabic for \u201ccatastrophe,\u201d when 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and 15,000 were killed during Israel\u2019s founding. Darwish lived much of his life in exile and was a critic of Hamas. He wrote in his poem, \u201cTo A Young Poet,\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA poem in a difficult time<br \/>\nis beautiful flowers in a cemetery.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the <span class=\"caps\">WHO<\/span> warns Gaza\u2019s hospitals are becoming cemeteries, it\u2019s time to heed the poets and the doctors, stop the killing, end the occupation, and dress the open wounds of war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]Por: Amy Goodman y Denis Moynihan La escritora neozelandesa Em Berry public\u00f3 recientemente un poema titulado \u201cPor nuestra culpa\u201d (Because of us), que dice: Esta ma\u00f1ana he aprendido que la palabra inglesa &#8216;gauze&#8217; (tela m\u00e9dica finamente tejida) proviene de la palabra \u00e1rabe [\u2026] &#8216;Ghazza&#8217; porque los gazat\u00edes han sido h\u00e1biles tejedores durante siglos. 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