Aftonbladet’s editor-in-chief Karin Schmidt: That’s why we collect money for Doctors Without Borders
Published 2024-04-22 10.10
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All wars are political, the ongoing war in the Middle East is certainly no exception.
The polarization after the Hamas terrorist attack and the subsequent war in Gaza is unprecedented.
But one thing we should all be able to agree on:
Children’s right to life.
Because no matter how bad it sounds on social media, it is of course nothing against how the children in Gaza are doing every day.
The children who survivors of the attacks in Gaza instead struggle against hunger, water shortages and disease. If they survive today, the same reality awaits tomorrow.
A reality where there is not food for everyone. Where there is no gas to heat the small portions with. A reality where the need for care cannot be exaggerated. One where healthcare in Gaza has collapsed. “Healthcare workers are forced to make impossible choices to ration what little they have left, including operating without anesthesia,” WHO wrote.
In October.
Six months ago.
Four out of ten of Gaza’s residents are under the age of 14 (In Sweden, you leave seventh grade the year you turn 14) and live in a reality that defies all attempts at description.
In January of this year, doctors who were on the scene testified to horrific scenes, al-Shifa hospital’s emergency department was already described in December last year as a “bloodbath”. Now the emergency department no longer exists, says the WHO. No other department either. al-Shifa hospital is in ruins.
It is very difficult even for aid organizations to operate in Gaza, but without them even more children die. Doctors Without Borders is an organization that does what it can. They bring in medicines and provide the health care they can. Do what you can, regardless of how you feel about the political situation – help Doctors Without Borders save children.
