“I’ve never seen anything like it in my life,” says MSF emergency coordinator Caroline Seguin in a new Q&A about the situation in North Gaza.
Despite the ceasefire in Gaza implemented on January 19, all components of society have been destroyed in the Strip, making it almost uninhabitable.
Doctor Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are now able to reach northern Gaza, which had been besieged by Israeli forces, to assess the medical and humanitarian needs. They have found an appalling situation, with nothing left. Our colleagues no longer recognize their own neighborhoods, hospitals have been razed, and people are living in the rubble of their homes with no other shelter amid winter conditions. Here, MSF emergency coordinator Caroline Seguin shares her insights from the ground.
In the North governorate, the level of destruction is total—it’s a flat land. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. Our Palestinian colleagues are no longer able to recognize their own neighborhoods. Some were in shock; others literally collapsed.
