A full-scale Israeli assault on Rafah would likely spark a border crisis. Thousands of lives would be lost, and many more people would be injured.
Displaced Palestinians arrive in central Gaza after fleeing from the southern Gaza city of Rafah in Deir al Balah, Gaza strip, on May 8, 2024. During my two-week mission to Gaza in January, I traveled from my well-equipped hospital in Chicago to work in a multispecialty clinic in Rafah and a large hospital in Khan Younis about 6 miles north of the city.
In the absence of laboratory tests to confirm the diagnosis, it felt as though I had been transported back to the Middle Ages, where diagnoses relied solely on pure clinical assessment. This is what the health care system looks like now due to the war and blockade. At that time, the World Health Organization reported approximately 8,000 cases of hepatitis A in Gaza, primarily due to water contamination from seeping sewage. Our medical team administered intravenous fluid therapy to Sarah.
The famine and staggering toll of civilian casualties in Gaza — more than 34,000 dead and counting, two-thirds of them women and children, and more than 75,000 injured, per the With the ongoing Israeli incursion on eastern Rafah, the flow of humanitarian aid has been blocked by the military operation. My organization recently had to cancel our medical mission due the closure of the border crossing. Civilians have very limited evacuation options.
Some may argue that President Joe Biden does not have a magic wand in Gaza. Yet many, including members of Congress I recently met with, have asserted that the president has leverage that he could bring to bear. On Wednesday, Biden demonstrated that by announcing that the U.S. would withhold certain weapons and artillery shells if Israel engages in a ground invasion of Rafah. This is a first step, and it should be applauded.
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