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I reach Gandhi Street and my gaze wanders over the surrounding buildings. A sign on the wall of one of the buildings catches my attention, which reads "Residential Building" and worries me. The wave of the Zionist regime's attack has been so heavy and terrifying that it has damaged the windows and the skeletons of the houses. The closer I get to Gandhi Hospital, the more the destruction shows itself. I stand in front of the hospital and survey the building that bears the title Gandhi Hospital from top to bottom. At the bottom of the hospital's entrance ramp, two wheelchairs have been abandoned; an image that occupies my entire mind. These two wheelchairs are enough to understand what happened; Oh my God, they have destroyed the hospital. I stand there and constantly struggle with myself; What happened to the patients? How did the old man whose kidneys had failed manage to keep his mental state intact amidst this sudden panic? Was there a chance to calm him down, or did fear get to him before help arrived? Was the child connected to the machine, with the tubes that were holding his breath, unharmed? How was his mother able to control herself at that moment to keep everything stable?
My thoughts turn to the old woman who was hospitalized for her heart; how did her heart, which was already weak, now withstand the sound of the explosion and the shaking of the walls? How did she swallow her fear? And the companions… each and every one of the companions who, with a thousand hopes, had entrusted their patients to this private hospital so that they might have more peace; now, with this amount of terror, what has happened to their psyche and soul?
As I cross the ramp, I head towards the hospital stairs; the stairs that have retained the traces of the blast wave. With each step I climb, I involuntarily imagine a wave; a blind, terrifying pressure that has risen from floor to floor, swallowing everything in its path.
The destruction of the angiography to the IVF room
The holes created by the explosion, like open wounds, reveal the function of each floor. For example, there was a floor related to the angiography department, and on that side was the angiography lab; the very place that saved the blood flow has now stopped moving.
The other section, the IVF, which was the place where embryos were stored, where life in its most basic form was protected, has been completely destroyed. There is no trace of that medical order left in this hospital building; as far as the eye can see, there is only rubble and emptiness.
On another floor, there was a special patients' ward; three beds side by side, with oxygen cylinders, the beds of which are now either overturned or buried under the ground. Without a doubt, here, life was dependent on the machine, and now the same inanimate machines are carrying the narrative of the sudden cessation of life.
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A little further on, there was the cardiac operating room; where the most precise decisions had to be made to save lives. The explosion created a large hole in the heart of this room; a hole that not only cracked the concrete, but also collapsed the concept of treatment safety.
The kidney operating room was not spared from this destruction; a space that should have been a place for the repair of body organs, now itself needs renovation. Going to each floor and seeing the scenes that were a chain of care, treatment, and hope are now broken apart floor by floor. The further I go, the scope of the destruction goes beyond the operating rooms and reaches the heart of medical services. Service rooms have been destroyed one by one; The same spaces that are said to be the main parts of keeping a hospital afloat, but now nothing remains of them but destruction.
Embryo freezing tanks and their transfer
The room that was the place where embryos were stored and kept has been completely destroyed; where life, before birth, was entrusted to devices and scientific precision. Of course, the head of the hospital, Mr. Bani Asad, says in the meantime, "So that the embryos are not harmed, what is left has been transferred to freezing tanks."
In the infrastructure sector, the hospital's air conditioner has failed, and with its loss, the hospital has been practically paralyzed in the inpatient and medical services sectors. Here, the cycle that should allow for the continuation of treatment has stopped breathing.
The equipment in the heart department, the heart surgery operating room, the eye surgery departments, the scopic operating room, and the ICU have all been severely damaged. Now these devices, each of which could have determined the difference between life and death, have either failed or are buried under rubble. Of course, the hospital, in this state, is no longer able to respond to the most basic medical needs and has been completely evacuated.
Floor by floor destruction of the Gandhi Hospital clinic
I walk towards the Gandhi Hospital clinic and clinics, which are located wall to wall of the hospital; a high-rise building, 15 floors, maybe 17 floors, each floor of which is tied to a part of the treatment. The neonatal clinic, physiotherapy, immunology, kidney, heart, gastroenterology and dozens of other specialized services were concentrated in this building; where outpatients received medical services, as the saying goes.
But here too, the blast wave has risen floor by floor. Equipment, walls and treatment spaces have been destroyed one after another; Physiotherapy equipment, specialized treatment equipment, and even the concept of “service” have disappeared in the blink of an eye, and nothing remains of that clinic; only scattered signs of what was and is no longer.
Meanwhile, in this devastation left by the infamous Zionist regime, my gaze falls on a pile of scrap metal; compressed pieces that are initially indistinguishable. I pause for a moment and try to understand what I am seeing. As I look a little closer, I realize that these are the clinic window shutters; this frame, more than anything else, makes me feel the weight of the space. I feel the devastation of the hospital and the same deep sadness, like dust, settles on everything, making it difficult to breathe.
They deliberately hit the hospital, that's how I feel
I come down the stairs and the words are spinning in my head, the wheelchair that I see at the foot of the stairs makes my heart tremble; this wheelchair would have been a sign of life if they had left it. When I leave the clinic, I see people who are desperately taking out packages of medicine. The hospital pharmacy has also been destroyed; the shelves and medical equipment are all under the rubble and those medicines that were still safe are now being moved, maybe to save other lives that still need help. I don't know. This scene seems like the last shot that hits the heart of every viewer, making everyone's mood heavier and sadder.
The destruction of Gandhi Hospital has severed the bridge between life and death. The abandoned wheelchair at the foot of the stairs, the abandoned chairs, the embryo freezing tanks, and the collapsed window shutters, each tell a sad and painful story.
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With every look at this ruin, it becomes clear how high the deliberate bombing of the hospital by the Zionist criminals is; because here, cruelty, nakedly and openly, targets human security, social trust, and the value of every moment of life. The brutal Zionist regime, accompanied by the criminal America, those who claimed not to target vital infrastructure and medical centers, hit the hospital and turned it into ruins; an attack that targeted not only a medical center, hospital, operating room, and physiotherapy, but also the lives and peace of hospitalized patients, leaving nearly 20 of them stranded in the midst of the crisis. Know that I am saying this seriously, Gandhi Hospital is now a symbol of a clear violation of humanity.
Residential homes victim of Trump's war
When I leave the hospital, I walk down the street, my eyes fall on the residential buildings next to the hospital; houses that are damaged and the signs of destruction are obvious. I see a man patiently packing his household belongings and putting them in the trunk of his car, gathering everything he can to take with him to leave his home and his home.
But what catches my attention most of all is the thick book of Shahnameh that he has put in a box and a few other books of his that seem to have had value and meaning to him, a few of which he has carefully placed in the trunk. I think to myself for a moment; our lives, even in the midst of war, are defined by these simple and human details. When I ask him, "Were you at home when the attack happened?" he says, "Yes... the windows are broken, we can't stay here anymore; we packed up and left." With these departures, I understand how much this war has shattered people's daily lives and their safest places.