
Gazan father Muhammed Gouda and his baby daughter Misk lay dead at Aqsa Hospital after an Israeli airstrike hit Deir al-Balah
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Gazan father Muhammed Gouda and his baby daughter Misk lay dead at Aqsa Hospital after an Israeli airstrike hit Deir al-Balah
We apologize. The unprecedented human tragedy in Gaza hurtles on; we can record only pitiless catastrophe afflicting the innocent, its numbers and names. Over 3,400 Palestinian children have been killed and 6,300 wounded; Israel is hitting ravaged hospitals without fuel or light with de-facto bombings; their mad "leader" is quoting Biblical bloodbaths, declaring a "holy mission" of annihilation, and refusing to stop in the name of vengeance: "This is a time for war." Once again: Murdering children is not "war."
Including, grotesquely, hospitals, where many have sought shelter. Over 50,000 people have taken refuge at al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital; perhaps 12,000 have fled to al-Quds hospital, the next biggest. But under a siege that has blocked all fuel and medicine, and with over a third of the city's hospitals shut down, the rest are struggling. Doctors dependent on one generator are operating by flashlight, rationing anesthetics, sterilizing with vinegar or laundry detergent, cutting back on dialysis and chemo treatments, having to choose, "like God," which of two intensive care babies to save. Meanwhile, "If the electricity goes, it just becomes a mass grave." Israel has ordered hospitals to "evacuate," knowing well that's impossible; says Nebal Farsakh of the Palestinian Red Crescent, "Evacuating them means killing them." Israel has also issued cruelly pointless "warnings" to "evacuate" before bombardments, face-saving mockeries of humanity that "do not make targeting hospitals less of a war crime," says Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah: "A crime is a crime, even if you make it by appointment."
On Democracy Now, Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician who's helped provide emergency care in Gaza for 16 years during "very hectic periods" - Israeli assaults in 2006, 2009, 2012, 2014 - cites an "urgent fear" among colleagues Israel will move to bomb hospitals directly, as opposed to its "de facto" bombardments of nearby sites. He particularly condemns Israel's threat to bomb the (clearly civilian) al-Shifa based on their claim Hamas' command center is under it - a claim he's heard since 2009, with no proof forthcoming despite having walked freely there, slept there, filmed there for years. As he anxiously waits in Cairo for entry to Gaza, he praises health workers who remain, "moral compasses" and "cornerstones of a social fabric" that's been largely ripped away. "It's completely absurd that (we) have a state army threatening to bomb hospitals and killing children" - 5,300 to date - "in what is called a war," he says, blasting Biden's refusal to demand a ceasefire. "This has to stop. I don’t need to use the word 'genocide.' It's enough to say 'mass murder of civilians.' We need to stand up and say we don’t accept this."
Injured child at Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital after Israeli airstrikes.Photo by Saeed Jaras/APA Images
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We apologize. The unprecedented human tragedy in Gaza hurtles on; we can record only pitiless catastrophe afflicting the innocent, its numbers and names. Over 3,400 Palestinian children have been killed and 6,300 wounded; Israel is hitting ravaged hospitals without fuel or light with de-facto bombings; their mad "leader" is quoting Biblical bloodbaths, declaring a "holy mission" of annihilation, and refusing to stop in the name of vengeance: "This is a time for war." Once again: Murdering children is not "war."
Including, grotesquely, hospitals, where many have sought shelter. Over 50,000 people have taken refuge at al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital; perhaps 12,000 have fled to al-Quds hospital, the next biggest. But under a siege that has blocked all fuel and medicine, and with over a third of the city's hospitals shut down, the rest are struggling. Doctors dependent on one generator are operating by flashlight, rationing anesthetics, sterilizing with vinegar or laundry detergent, cutting back on dialysis and chemo treatments, having to choose, "like God," which of two intensive care babies to save. Meanwhile, "If the electricity goes, it just becomes a mass grave." Israel has ordered hospitals to "evacuate," knowing well that's impossible; says Nebal Farsakh of the Palestinian Red Crescent, "Evacuating them means killing them." Israel has also issued cruelly pointless "warnings" to "evacuate" before bombardments, face-saving mockeries of humanity that "do not make targeting hospitals less of a war crime," says Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah: "A crime is a crime, even if you make it by appointment."
On Democracy Now, Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician who's helped provide emergency care in Gaza for 16 years during "very hectic periods" - Israeli assaults in 2006, 2009, 2012, 2014 - cites an "urgent fear" among colleagues Israel will move to bomb hospitals directly, as opposed to its "de facto" bombardments of nearby sites. He particularly condemns Israel's threat to bomb the (clearly civilian) al-Shifa based on their claim Hamas' command center is under it - a claim he's heard since 2009, with no proof forthcoming despite having walked freely there, slept there, filmed there for years. As he anxiously waits in Cairo for entry to Gaza, he praises health workers who remain, "moral compasses" and "cornerstones of a social fabric" that's been largely ripped away. "It's completely absurd that (we) have a state army threatening to bomb hospitals and killing children" - 5,300 to date - "in what is called a war," he says, blasting Biden's refusal to demand a ceasefire. "This has to stop. I don’t need to use the word 'genocide.' It's enough to say 'mass murder of civilians.' We need to stand up and say we don’t accept this."
Injured child at Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital after Israeli airstrikes.Photo by Saeed Jaras/APA Images
We apologize. The unprecedented human tragedy in Gaza hurtles on; we can record only pitiless catastrophe afflicting the innocent, its numbers and names. Over 3,400 Palestinian children have been killed and 6,300 wounded; Israel is hitting ravaged hospitals without fuel or light with de-facto bombings; their mad "leader" is quoting Biblical bloodbaths, declaring a "holy mission" of annihilation, and refusing to stop in the name of vengeance: "This is a time for war." Once again: Murdering children is not "war."
Including, grotesquely, hospitals, where many have sought shelter. Over 50,000 people have taken refuge at al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital; perhaps 12,000 have fled to al-Quds hospital, the next biggest. But under a siege that has blocked all fuel and medicine, and with over a third of the city's hospitals shut down, the rest are struggling. Doctors dependent on one generator are operating by flashlight, rationing anesthetics, sterilizing with vinegar or laundry detergent, cutting back on dialysis and chemo treatments, having to choose, "like God," which of two intensive care babies to save. Meanwhile, "If the electricity goes, it just becomes a mass grave." Israel has ordered hospitals to "evacuate," knowing well that's impossible; says Nebal Farsakh of the Palestinian Red Crescent, "Evacuating them means killing them." Israel has also issued cruelly pointless "warnings" to "evacuate" before bombardments, face-saving mockeries of humanity that "do not make targeting hospitals less of a war crime," says Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah: "A crime is a crime, even if you make it by appointment."
On Democracy Now, Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician who's helped provide emergency care in Gaza for 16 years during "very hectic periods" - Israeli assaults in 2006, 2009, 2012, 2014 - cites an "urgent fear" among colleagues Israel will move to bomb hospitals directly, as opposed to its "de facto" bombardments of nearby sites. He particularly condemns Israel's threat to bomb the (clearly civilian) al-Shifa based on their claim Hamas' command center is under it - a claim he's heard since 2009, with no proof forthcoming despite having walked freely there, slept there, filmed there for years. As he anxiously waits in Cairo for entry to Gaza, he praises health workers who remain, "moral compasses" and "cornerstones of a social fabric" that's been largely ripped away. "It's completely absurd that (we) have a state army threatening to bomb hospitals and killing children" - 5,300 to date - "in what is called a war," he says, blasting Biden's refusal to demand a ceasefire. "This has to stop. I don’t need to use the word 'genocide.' It's enough to say 'mass murder of civilians.' We need to stand up and say we don’t accept this."
Injured child at Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital after Israeli airstrikes.Photo by Saeed Jaras/APA Images