A midwife in Scotland is holding a hunger strike outside the Scottish Parliament to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the restoration of vital services to Palestine. She warns that the lives of newborn babies will be at risk if these calls are ignored.
A midwife holding a hunger strike for Gaza has said the potential deaths of newborn babies will be “on our hands” if calls for an immediate ceasefire are ignored.
And in 2009, while volunteering as a first aider with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent humanitarian movement, she was in the Al-Quds hospital in Gaza when it was hit by tank shells and white phosphorous – a substance which the Israel Defence Force denied using at the time. “The chance of infection there will be almost certain in those circumstances,” she told the PA news agency.
Healthcare professionals, including paramedics, doctors and nurses that Ms Lock met during her volunteering, are working in hospitals across Gaza and have managed to communicate “on and off”.She added: “The healthcare professionals there will be doing their absolute best. I don’t think they’ll have slept or even had a chance to process what they’re trying to do. My heart goes out to them. I just can’t imagine it.
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