Watan-The Omani doctor, Khaled Al Shamsi, volunteering in Gaza, revealed an unexpected surprise: finding a battery inside the stomach of a 5-year-old girl in Gaza. It was extracted via endoscopy due to the critical negative effects of such materials. Dr. Al Shamsi, who refused to leave Rafah despite the Israeli invasion, commented on his Twitter account above a picture of the girl and the extracted battery: “Due to extreme hunger, she ate a watch battery.” He added, “For your information, there are no endoscopy doctors in Gaza to handle such cases… It’s by God’s mercy that I was in Gaza.”
He continued: “This war is criminal, making children eat gravel and batteries.” Dr. Khaled Al Shamsi, an Omani doctor, chose to stay in Rafah upon hearing news of the impending invasion of the Rafah crossing, preferring to serve his sick brothers who needed treatment.
He wrote yesterday, Tuesday, on his X account: “The Jews have seized control of the Rafah crossing. Praise be to God, we are living and dying with the people of Gaza – their life is our life, and their death is our death.”
هذه بطارية استخرجتها بالمنظار من طفلة عمرها ٥ سنوات في #غزة
من شدة الجوع اكل بطارية الساعة
للعلم لا يوجد طبيب مناظير في غزة للقيام بهذه الحالة
من رحمة الله بي وبالطفلة انني كنت في غزة
هذه الحرب مجرمة جعلت الاطفال يأكلون الحصى والبطاريات pic.twitter.com/UNIfRADOGX
— د. خالد الشموسي 🇴🇲 اللهم انصر غزة🇵🇸 (@DAlshmwsy) May 8, 2024
Dr. Al Shamsi revealed the surgeries he performed in Gaza before the invasion of Rafah, calling on Arab doctors to join them in Gaza “to provide medical support to our people defending our nation and our sanctities.”
He said in a tweet monitored by “Watan” on March 15 via his official account on the “X” platform: “Today in Gaza, I performed 5 endoscopies: three for the bile ducts, one for esophageal dilation in achalasia, and one to stop bleeding from the duodenum.”
He added: “For your information, the endoscopy materials were donated financially by some doctors in the Sultanate of Oman, purchased in Egypt, and delivered to Gaza with the voluntary medical delegation.”
Al Shamsi said in another tweet: “Gaza still needs a sound bile duct endoscope, unfortunately not available in all of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza).”
هل تعتبر نفسك في رحلة الحياة صيادًا يبحث عن الفرص، أم مزارعًا ينمي ويعتني بما زرعه؟
سأشارك معكم بعض الأفكار والمعلومات الحياتية.@SQUCOFFEE
د. خالد الشموسي – استشاري الجهاز الهضمي والمناظير المتقدمة في مستشفى جامعة السلطان قابوس – استاذ مساعد في كلية الطب – حاصل على البورد… pic.twitter.com/VFXq3a3Wr4
— د. خالد الشموسي 🇴🇲 اللهم انصر غزة🇵🇸 (@DAlshmwsy) March 15, 2024
He confirmed that most hospitals in Gaza are out of service, and the only functioning hospital is European, while the rest have been destroyed or turned into clinics operating as hospitals out of necessity during the war, despite the lack of resources.
According to scientific encyclopedias, watch batteries, calculator batteries, camera batteries, and toy batteries contain heavy metals such as zinc, mercury, silver, nickel, cadmium, and lithium. They also contain concentrated caustic solutions such as potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide, posing a serious threat to children’s health.