In an interview with SIC, Raul Manarte talks about psychological suffering to levels never portrayed For those who study this phenomenon in a part of the world where only those chosen by Israel can come in or out.
Beyond the bullets, the guarantees who there, for now, tries to do the humanitarian work possible. SIC spoke to the Portuguese psychologist, Raul Manarte, who is in the territory and does not hesitate to say: The people of Gaza are suffering a genocide.
This is the second time Raul Manarte has been in the Gaza Strip. The first was last November, but eight months later the psychologist, in work for the non -governmental organization he says he sees more destruction and hunger.
“My colleagues are much thinner compared to November or December. There are deaths associated with malnutrition. What is in the market, when there is, is very expensive,” he reveals.
Almost two years after the war began almost everything in the Gaza Strip:
“There is not enough medication, there is not enough water, there is not enough food. In public hospitals, people are on the floor. Incidents come where many people are injured and a lot of people are killed at the same time. They are due to the distribution of food that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is doing, and harm, because people are run over to reach food, they are shot to reach food. of food (…) What happens here is a genocide.
“Mass civil killing”
The statement is made by those who are and find the legal conditions on the ground to call, to what Israel is doing in Gaza, a genocide.
“Mass civil killing, prevent conditions necessary for life, forced travel to supposedly safe areas that are later bombarded (…) the that It comes to mind today is the kid that I have completely burned, with 40% of the body burned, maybe it will eventually die or have three amputated members because medical evacuations are not facilitated either. “
Raul Manarte talks about psychological suffering to levels never portrayed For those who study this phenomenon in a part of the world where only those chosen by Israel can come in or out.
The brief conversation with Raul Manarte went to the end of Another day of intense workbefore the psychologist eats the little food he took from Portugal, before washing with the low salt water he gets and before trying to sleep the little he can.
Raul Manarte says that an immediate ceasefire is mandatory, stopping attacks and Open humanitarian corridors.
The psychologist who is also a musician says that the gaza strip is under a perfect and heinous storm where men, women and children give the bullets as the title of the song he wrote with the Palestinian musician Mahmoud Abdel Salam.
