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– We were operating when the roof of the operating theater suddenly fell down. This is a massacre, says surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah in Doctors Without Borders. He works for Doctors Without Borders. Morten Rostrup is a doctor in the organisation. He has just spoken to the surgeon. – It is absolutely terrible, he says. He says that they have had 320 employees in Gaza, and believes that this situation must end. – We have stopped medical activity, but some employees have traveled to other hospitals to work. – The whole humanitarian way of thinking is unsafe. Now health personnel must be allowed to do their job, he says. Morten Rostrup is a doctor and has carried out aid work all over the world. Photo: Kristin Granbo / news It is unknown who is behind the attack on the hospital. Hamas blames Israel, while Israel’s military claims the Islamic terrorist group is behind it. Palestinian Islamic Jihad denies having anything to do with the attack. Should be safe – Thousands of people have applied to hospitals because it has functioned as a kind of safe zone. And then this happens. It is not the first time hospitals have been attacked in Gaza. It is an act of war, says Rostrup. He calls the attack shocking and horrific. – I myself worked at a hospital in Libya that was attacked with rockets. It is terrible to be in such a place and try to treat patients. Rostrup refers to the attack as a massacre of civilians. – And think of the mental consequences, how traumatic this is for the over two million who are locked up. Dead and relatives after the air raid. Photo: Dawood NEMER / AFP Thousands hid in the hospital According to Al Jazeera, thousands of Palestinians had sought refuge in the hospital’s courtyard. Many of the victims are said to be women and children. Ahli Arab Hospital is the oldest hospital in Gaza and was founded in 1982. More than 45,000 people have been treated at the hospital annually, according to the hospital’s own website. Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide says the situation seems to be going from bad to worse. – Now it is important that we try to talk together to find a solution, he says.



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