ISLAMABAD: Syed Irfan Ali, a Pakistani-American doctor working at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, has said that an explosion sound in Gaza every two minutes without interruption, whether it is of a tank shell or an Apache helicopter fire, describing the scale of Israeli military offensive in the territory.
Israel’s war on Gaza, which began after Oct. 2023 attacks by Hamas, has killed more than 61,700 Palestinians, including women and children, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
The United Nations (UN) and aid groups have reported widespread shortages of food, power and safety equipment in the territory that has been besieged by the Israeli military, with hundreds dying of hunger.
An explosion was heard in the backdrop of an interview on Thursday with Dr. Ali, who graduated from Lahore’s Allama Iqbal Medical College and later trained in anesthesia and pain management at the Harvard University.
“You would have heard this explosion, this is going on non-stop. It goes on every two minutes,” he said, describing the situation in Gaza. “These people have not only lost their homes, whatever they had, cars, homes, whatever memories they had inside home, the pictures, the achievements, diplomas and degrees, they lost everything.”
