Tanya Haj Hassan is the co-founder of Gaza Medic Voices, an international group that seeks to highlight the voices of medical workers in Gaza.
Speaking to Al Jazeera amid reports of ongoing assaults in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital, she called the accounts she has been receiving “horrific”. The medical complex was also repeatedly hit with strikes overnight.
She read an appeal from the director of surgery at the hospital: “Dear colleagues, the situation at al-Shifa now is extremely dangerous. We as medical staff want to leave but we cannot, we might not survive until morning.
“We don’t want to be killed here just only because we were committed to our patients and our medical profession. I am calling for help urgently. Please do whatever you can through your governments or through the International Red Cross to arrange a safe corridor for medical staff,” the appeal said.
