French Carrier Dixmude Provides Critical Aid in Gaza Conflict

Over 1,000 patients, half of them children, have been treated on the converted field hospital amid escalating violence.

French helicopter carrier Dixmude, docked in el-Arish, Egypt, has been turned into a field hospital treating some of Gaza's most severely wounded, with half of the more than 1,000 patients treated so far being children.
More than 25,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7, with over 62,000 injured, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
In Israel, at least 1,200 people have been killed, mostly civilians, and 6,900 others injured, according to the Israeli prime minister's office.
Various medical facilities have been set up aboard the Dixmude, including a burn ward, a resuscitation room and a number of tents to expand hospitalization capabilities.
Patients who need additional care are airlifted to Cairo via helicopter. A whiteboard outside the two operating rooms lists recent patients; all of them are minors.