'Essentially a daily bombardment on civilians' in south Lebanon: MSF doctor

In southern Lebanon, there is “essentially a daily bombardment on civilians”, says a medic with Doctors Without Borders, or MSF.

“In the last 24 hours, we’ve had so many traumatic amputations that we’ve run out of arterial tourniquets,” Thienminh Dinh told Al Jazeera from the southern Lebanese town of Tyre.

On the day the US-Iran ceasefire began, some civilians returned to their homes “thinking potentially it could have been safe, and within a few hours of having returned, there was a seven-year-old girl whose family was bombed”.

Eight members of her family were left buried underneath the rubble, said Dinh, adding that “these are things that essentially we’re seeing on a daily basis”.

“We’ve had children whose … intestines were riddled with shrapnel, just torn apart on. In the same week, we’ve had children whose bowels were eviscerated, so their intestines were on the outside of their bodies.

“On top of their physical injuries, there’s profound psychological trauma that comes with having your homes taken from you, being displaced, losing family members and being injured.”

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