The checkpoints are bleeding. Sources inside Gaza confirm that evacuation corridors, touted as safe passages, have become death traps. A team of British doctors, just repatriated after a harrowing fortnight at Al-Shifa Hospital, have broken their silence.
They describe a system deliberately slowed to a crawl. Patients with limbs blown off wait hours, sometimes days, for clearance. One surgeon, speaking on condition of anonymity, told me: 'We lost a child.
A six-year-old girl. She was stable. The delay at the crossing cost her life.
' The doctors allege that Israeli authorities are using a bureaucratic sieve to deny the wounded exit. Each ambulance is searched, papers rechecked, identity verified against databases that seem to expand by the hour. The British Foreign Office has so far issued a cautious statement urging 'unimpeded access'.
But the doctors say that's not enough. They want an independent investigation. Leaked internal memos from the World Health Organization show repeated warnings about the Rafah crossing bottleneck.
One memo, dated 48 hours ago, states that fewer than 200 patients have been evacuated in the past month. The actual need, it says, is at least 5,000. The gap is a moral abyss.
And the clock is ticking for those still trapped. I've seen the waiting lists. They're not lists.
They're obituaries waiting to be written.
