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Before someone tries to make the claim, no, the hospital staff couldn't have taken the babies with them. These were premature babies in oxygen-saturated powered incubators, which could not be moved.
Possibly if a fully set up ambulance was available for each baby, it could be done, but the IDF has been bombing ambulances too and there aren't that many available anyways.
tl;Dr: short of just hitting "fuck it" and transporting these babies in a car or jury-rigging something, there was no way they were getting moved.
I'm a paramedic. The ambulances/gurneys/staff to do this kind of transfer are highly, highly specialized (and also, therefore, expensive). Even in the US, you'll typically just see one for each regional pediatric center, typically covering a range of about 200 miles or a little over 300 km for sane measurement fans. This is not something that any old ambulance service or EMS agency just has laying around. I wouldn't guess you'd find something like that in Gaza at all, given the state of oppression there, much less multiple units, much less in the middle of a military bombardment where they're convinced that they're transporting HAMAS tunnels in ambulances.
I can't even begin to imagine how horrific it was for those hospital staff to have to leave those babies. I think it would break me.
Yeah. I can't fathom most of what this has been like for people in Gaza. I also can't imagine just dead ass leaving a baby behind.* I have to imagine they thought they'd be back soon or that someone else was coming, or the babies were already dead and there were no body bags or time. This is painful to think about.
*Not a criticism, I'm awake when I shouldn't be, words am hard, can't think of a better way to frame it.
@conditional_soup these were not ordinary babies that you can just carry around, even if you're not under sniper fire and trying to evacuate a bunch of other wounded kids. Premies are tiny and vulnerable. They were dying from lack of oxygen.
The staff probably hoped that the forces who took over the hospital would have mercy on these babies.