Khan Younis women, children, protests against physicians strike in the city

The Hamas media office in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Thursday that hundreds of women and children carried a massive protest against the ongoing physicians strike in the city.

The protesters stood in the main yard of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis carrying signboards against the strike, and holding the government of Salaam Fayyad in Ramallah, responsible for the conditions in Gaza, and of endangering the lives of the patients.

Some of the children carried signboards which reads; “who benefits when our patients die on hospital doorsteps”.

The protestors chanted slogans against the strike, expressing their anger and calling the physicians to resume their duties.

One of the women said that “those physicians have no beating hearts, as they stand still watching the patients die”.

Dr. Yahia Mousa, one of the Gaza Hamas legislators, said that “nobody will defend the striking doctors, if they don’t defend the patients and the residents”.

“They must perform their human duty and provide our children, women, and elderly with the needed medical help”. Mousa added.

He accused the Palestinian government in Ramallah of giving orders to what he described as “their tails in Gaza, in order to disrupt life there, and bring death and destruction”.

He also accused the Palestinian government in Ramallah of “accepting to be used by the US and Israel as a tool against the legitimacy, and against their own people”.