Smell of death everywhere’: Aid worker describes devastation in Gaza

Caroline Seguin, an emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (MSF), described the severe destruction in the northern Gaza Strip, including deliberate attacks on medical facilities and a critical shortage of humanitarian aid.

Seguin said there is no health system anymore in the north, in a report published Wednesday on the medical charity’s website.

She recounted harrowing scenes from the Indonesian Hospital, where she said every medical machine appeared to have been “deliberately” destroyed.

“They were smashed to pieces, one by one, to make sure no medical care could be provided anymore,” said Seguin. “You have to ask, what is the motivation of such action? These machines are made to save people’s lives, mothers, fathers, children. It’s devastating to see the state of these hospitals.”

She described the overwhelming destruction. “In Gaza City we were already shocked by the level of destruction, but then we went north to Jabalia, we couldn’t say a Word,” she said. “There is nothing there anymore. Only ruins and the smell of death everywhere because of the dead bodies still trapped under the rubble.”

Despite a ceasefire agreement, Seguin reported that humanitarian aid remains critically insufficient in the north.