(27 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saksakieh, Southern Lebanon – 26 September 2024
1. Wide of buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes
2. Interiors of destroyed property
3. Various of child laying in hospital bed with her face covered
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Dawoud, surgeon:
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"We are working with the bare minimum. The elements of steadfastness have become almost non-existent. It’s possible that soon we won’t be able to treat our patients."
5. Various of injured person with amputated arm and severe burns laying on hospital bed
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Marwa Qubeisi, nurse:
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"When we get so tired, we look at each other and try to comfort each other and say we will continue. We strengthen each other. We hug each other, cry and say ‘we have to be strong. There are people waiting for us. There are people who we can offer help to even in the smallest ways.’
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sarafand, Southern Lebanon – 26 September 2024
7. Various of aftermath of Israeli airstrikes on Sarafand village in South Lebanon
STORYLINE:
Staff in hospitals in Lebanon’s south are struggling to cope with an influx of new patients following Israeli airstrikes in the region.
In recent days, Israeli strikes pounded villages and towns along the coast of the area, causing major damage to residential buildings, roads and vehicles.
An airstrike in Sakasieh, a town that has been hit several times since Monday, destroyed a row of residential buildings and cars parked outside.
Less than a mile away in Sarafand, a coastal town in the southern district of Sidon, smoke was still rising from the site of an airstrike that appeared to hit a parking lot, leaving cars twisted, mangled metal and debris in the small town.
At least five people were killed in the strike in Saksakieh, and there were no casualties in Sarafand, two towns along the coast in southern Lebanon, near Sidon.
Amid the fighting, Mohamed Dawoud, a trauma surgeon at a local hospital in Saksakieh, said that his facility is being overwhelmed by casualties arriving from the town, as well as its surrounding areas.
More than 125 wounded and 21 killed have arrived in the provincial hospital in the four days in that hospital, including medics.
The doctors said many of the injured were children, suffering from severe burns, fractured bones and open wounds.
There were several patients with burns, all over their bodies, in their faces, and with amputated hands in the hospital’s ICU.
Dawoud said while caring for the injured, the hospital staff had to also worry about evacuating their families.
Some left their families to seek safety alone; while others brought them to the hospital for safety.
He said the staff is operating with "the bare minimum.”
He added that they lacked basic equipment, sedatives and medicines.
It is the same for most hospitals in the south, where the strikes have been relentless since Monday.
Over 700 people were killed in Israeli strikes that hit the south, southern coast and east of Lebanon.
Nurse Marwa Qubeisi said she didn’t sleep for 36 hours straight.
Qubeisi said she is separated from her children and parents, who had to move to safety elsewhere.
She decided to remain in the hospital to continue her role.
AP video by Emad Hadad
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