After losing 150 relatives in Gaza, US doctor says ‘those left are waiting to die’
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Dr. Rola ElFarra, a physician from Houston, Texas, has family in the Gaza Strip. Some 150 of her relatives have been killed during the Israeli incursion and bombardment of the besieged enclave.
Among a group of Palestinian women who met with the UN Secretary-General last week, Dr. Elfarra shared stories and family photos of some of those killed, over 90 of whom were women and children, at a virtual event, War on #Gaza: Impact on Palestinian Women and Children, held on Wednesday on the margins of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68).
“Many died because of a lack of medical treatment,” she told UN News’s Abdelmonem Makki. “Those left are waiting to die.”