By Kathy Kelly, World BEYOND War, October 10, 2024
This devastating article helps me understand why, on a zoom call yesterday, Palestinians said they were facing “the final solution” as Israel eradicates their homes and futures. Each of the doctors in this article talks about children who were killed by snipers or died because of having been maimed, starved, or subjected to curable diseases but lacking proper medical care. Children! Please urge the Biden-Harris administration to immediately stop all weapons to Israel and to call for an immediate ceasefire. We cannot say we did not know.
65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza
By Feroze Sidhwa, The New York Times, October 9, 2024
Dr. Sidhwa is a trauma and general surgeon who worked at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, for two weeks in March and April.
I worked as a trauma surgeon in Gaza from March 25 to April 8. I’ve volunteered in Ukraine and Haiti, and I grew up in Flint, Mich. I’ve seen violence and worked in conflict zones. But of the many things that stood out about working in a hospital in Gaza, one got to me: Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die. Thirteen in total.
At the time, I assumed this had to be the work of a particularly sadistic soldier located nearby. But after returning home, I met an emergency medicine physician who had worked in a different hospital in Gaza two months before me. “I couldn’t believe the number of kids I saw shot in the head,” I told him. To my surprise, he responded: “Yeah, me, too. Every single day.”
