This volunteer doctor arrived in Gaza during the ceasefire. On Tuesday, the war began again

It was about 2 or 2:30 am when Dr. Fayrouz Sido was amazed from the sound of the door to his living places that crashed into the cabinet behind it. This was on March 18 and Israel resumed its bombing campaign In Gaza, he set a strong end to the ceasefire agreement.

The 43 -year -old is currently working as his second volunteer trip to Gaza, where he works in the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis. He entered the region on March 6, when the voices of the war were silent.

But soon, the familiar sounds of chaos and air explosions were filled, and Sidhwa was immersed in another mass victim event.

“On the morning of 18, things changed significantly,” he told CBC News in a video on Thursday. “But I expected the attack on the full power while I was here so it was not exactly a surprise.”

The ceasefire entered into force on January 19, a three -stage deal that included hostage and prisoners with delaying talks on the future of Gaza to the next stage of the armistice.

The first stage, which is a period of 42 days mainly on hostages, focuses on March 1 without agreement on the second stage.

On March 18, Israel resumed its campaign to bomb, which led to nearly 600 people, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, and left the first stage of the ceasefire in chaos.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this is “just the beginning” as Israel launched a land invasion To press Hamas to launch all the remaining hostages.

Sidhwa, a California shock surgeon, says that his colleagues were in the emergency room in Nasser within 15 minutes of waking up and saw patients after 10 minutes.

He was in his first surgery a day after an hour.

Shrapnel

He says that one of the first things he had to do on that day is the father’s explanation that his daughter will not survive her injuries.

“There was this three -year -old girl with multiple injuries to her face and head, and Nahi (indicating that oxygen does not reach the brain) and a very weak pulse,” he said. “Although she was not technically dead, she would have died and there was nothing we could do about it.”

The hospital witnessed between 250 and 300 people on that day, including “40 or 50 percent of women and children.”

He said that all the injuries he saw were shrapnel.

“Very small, but very strong fragments penetrate the bodies of people, causing injuries to their hearts, lungs, abdomen and mind.”

He says that he participated in six operations on Tuesday during the initial wave of surgeries-three children, two women, a middle-aged man.

He said that the continuous bombing campaign lasted from three to five hours while he was attending patients. “Once you start work, you really get lost.”

Hundreds of deaths and injuries

In a statement of CBC news, the doctors without borders said that its teams responded to a “flow” of patients in southern and central Gaza on Tuesday.

In Nasser, where the headquarters of Sidhua is located, the team received 55 dead and 113, according to the statement. A field hospital in Deir Balah received 10 injuries; At AQsa Hospital in the city, medical workers received 20 patients and 68 patients.

Sidahah says that surgeries stopped in the afternoon after medical teams have finally gained some manifestations of control of the emergency room.

Doctors who do not have limits said that the people of Ghazan “cannot bear this violence and destruction to start again,” and a ceasefire is needed. The organization also called on Israel to allow assistance and basic commodities to the region.

Tom Fletcher, a senior United Nations official, said in A. surround To the United Nations Security Council that “the worst concern of the organization is realized” with the resumption of hostilities in Gaza.

He also added that he returned “extreme fear” to people in the region.

Uncomfortable for special safety

The war arose after an attack led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, about 1,200 people were killed and about 250 others were captive, according to Israeli.

Israel responded with a military campaign in which more than 49,000 Palestinians were killed, according to Gaza’s health officials. Thousands of them are still buried and do not carry it under the rubble.

But while the ceasefire brought some relative calm to the tape while it was continuing, the effects of the war can be seen inside and outside the hospital.

While he spends a lot of his time in the hospital, Sidahah says he has not been ventured to leave the neighborhood since Tuesday, “for clear reasons.”

But before the attacks, he spent time to monitor the terrible scene in the streets and buildings of Khan Yunis.

“Every building is somehow damage, each one,” he said.

“Some of them are fans, some of them … the floors have collapsed on each other, and some of them have extinguished the front,” he said.

Although he was not surprised by the resumption of the war, his master said that being a volunteer doctor in Gaza makes him feel uncomfortable with his safety.

He said: “It is difficult to demonstrate (explosions) do not scare you, but if one wants to work in the Gaza Strip, one must accept that the Israelis can kill you at any moment.”