SAEDNEWS: In Gaza’s war‑torn hospitals, surgeons have resorted to performing critical operations under the dim glow of smartphone torches—an appalling testament to the international community’s failure to alleviate the humanitarian crisis.
According to Saed News, Gaza’s medical teams have found themselves performing life‑and‑death surgery by the feeble beam of mobile phones after relentless Israeli assaults plunged hospitals into crippling blackouts and left operating theaters devoid of essential drugs and equipment. In a video circulating Tuesday, masked surgeons are seen administering anesthesia and making incisions by the flickering light of patients’ relatives’ cell phones, while critical monitors lie dark.
“We were forced into this absurdity,” one surgeon told Saed News on condition of anonymity. “With each power cut, every second counts—and yet we had nothing but phones to guide our hands.” The footage shows surgical staff adjusting their angles constantly, struggling to maintain illumination over delicate procedures.
Repeated bombardment of Gaza’s power infrastructure has reduced its electrical grid to a patchwork of generator‑run wards, but fuel shortages have rendered backup systems unreliable. Concurrent shortages of anesthesia, sterilization chemicals, and hemostatic agents have further exacerbated the crisis, turning routine operations into gambles with patients’ lives.
Despite urgent appeals from Gaza’s Ministry of Health, major international bodies have remained largely silent. Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization have both warned of imminent collapse, yet relief convoys continue to face bureaucratic hurdles and security risks.
As Gaza’s hospitals teeter on the brink, this extraordinary video serves as both a wrenching symbol of medical heroism and a stark indictment of global paralysis in the face of humanitarian catastrophe.
