SEPAR medical organizations joined in demanding the entry of doctors in Gaza.

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According to Doctors Without Borders: Most emergencies are receiving very serious injuries with wounds to the chest
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SEPAR has contacted ALAT (Latin American Thoracic Association), the AIACT (Latin American Association of Thoracic Surgery) and the ERS (European Respiratory Society) to promote an international movement involving scientific societies in supporting initiatives that work to allow humanitarian and health aid in Gaza.

Given the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, SEPAR (Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery) through its SeparSolidaria initiative, joins the World Medical Association (WMA) and other international medical organizations such as Doctors Without Borders (MFS) and the Red Cross in a call for a ceasefire to allow the entry of urgent humanitarian assistance and medical resources to alleviate the situation of the population living in Gaza. It urges the international authorities to ensure respect for international conventions on Human Rights and the Geneva Accords to ensure that doctors and other health professionals provide care to all persons involved in armed conflicts in need.

Indicates that the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law stipulates that medical personnel and hospitals should be respected and protected as medical vehicles and ambulances. Red Cross is currently assessing the three-hour truce were wholly insufficient to evacuate the injured and demanded the Israeli armed forces to provide immediate care for injuries and ensure access for ambulances throughout the area without restrictions, such as regulating International Humanitarian Law.

So far have died in Gaza, 21 medical professionals and 30 were wounded. 11 ambulances have been targeted in military attacks, according to the Palestinian Minister of Health on the website of the WHO (World Health Organization).

Doctors Without Borders, which works regularly SeparSolidaria, working in Gaza City has complained that the military offensive indiscriminately affect civilians while medical teams experiencing enormous difficulties in providing assistance. In a statement indicated a balance estimated 800 deaths (219 children) and over 3,000 injured. Also, explain that the urban population is trapped and do not dare leave home for medical care.

According to MSF, the emergency services of hospitals are more than overwhelmed. During the first ten days the reference hospital d'Al Shaif has conducted more than 300 surgical procedures, surgeons and medical staff Palestinians are exhausted and barely able to cope with the arrival of the injured: the majority of emergencies are receiving serious injuries and multiple injuries, mostly with wounds to the chest, abdomen or face.

Speaking to Global Research - national broadcast of the Center for Globalization Research, a private institution based in Canada - the Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert said earlier this week that Al Shifa Hospital had attended a ten year old boy "who had the whole chest full of fragments of the bomb on his lap and mutilated leg of another person".