SEPAR joins medical organizations in the entry requirement of doctors in Gaza.

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According to MSF, the most urgent issues which are very serious injuries are wounds in the chest
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SEPAR have contacted ALAT (Latin American Thoracic Association), the AIACT (Ibero-American Association of Thoracic Surgery) and ERS (European Respiratory Society) to promote an international movement involving scientific societies in supporting initiatives that work to allow health and humanitarian aid in Gaza.

Given the humanitarian crisis that is ravaging Gaza, SEPAR (Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery) through its SeparSolidaria initiative, joins the World Medical Association (WMA) and other international medical organizations as Doctors Without Borders (MFS) and the Red Cross in a call for a ceasefire to allow the entry of humanitarian aid and emergency medical resources to alleviate the situation of people in Gaza. It urges the international authorities to ensure respect for international conventions on Human Rights and the Geneva Agreement to ensure that physicians and other health professionals provide care to all persons involved in armed conflicts in need.

Indicates that the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law provides that medical personnel and hospitals must be respected and protected vehicles like ambulances and doctors. Red Cross is currently assessing three hours of the truce have been insufficient to evacuate the injured and demanded the Israeli armed forces to provide immediate care for those wounded and guarantee the access of ambulances throughout the area without restrictions as regulated by international humanitarian law.

So far have died in Gaza, 21 medical and 30 were wounded. 11 ambulances have been on target military attacks, as reported by the Palestinian Minister of Health on the website of the WHO (World Health Organization).

Médecins Sans Frontières, which collaborates SeparSolidaria, working in Gaza City has claimed that the military offensive to indiscriminately affect civilians while medical teams experienced great difficulty in providing assistance. In a statement indicated a balance of the estimated 800 deaths (219 children) and over 3,000 injured. Also explained that the urban population is trapped and does not dare to leave their homes for care.

According to MSF, the emergency rooms of hospitals that are overloaded. During the first ten days of the referral hospital Shaifa Al has conducted over 300 surgical procedures, surgeons and medical staff Palestinians are exhausted and barely able to cope with the arrival of the injured: the majority of emergency cases are receiving polytraumatized and seriously injured, mostly with wounds to the chest, abdomen or in the face.

Speaking to Global Research - organ dissemination of the Center for Globalization Research, a private institution based in Canada - the Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert said earlier this week that the Al Shifa hospital had attended a ten year old boy "who had all his chest full of fragments of the bomb in his lap and mutilated leg of another person."