#THE CHILDREN LOSING LIMBS IN GAZA

[video-killed-the-radio--star]

Western ways of thinking about power when it comes to Palestine are so so bad. People who say that the Palestinians "voted" for Hamas are deluded. Elections in other countries don't always happen the way they do in America. Many people alive in Gaza today weren't even old enough to vote when Hamas came into power by election in 2006. Hamas only won by the barest percentage anyway and in no single district in Gaza did Hamas win. They were supposed to share power with Fatah party (who aren't much better than Hamas) but started killing them and gained complete control in 2007. They have not held an official election in over 15 years. Again, those who say that all Palestinians are Hamas or the people in Gaza "deserve it" because they voted for Hamas are fucking insane. Children can't vote. Why are they dying.

[sayruq]

10 children a day lose their limbs in Gaza. All hospitals in Gaza are basically barely functioning and the amputations are done in unsanitary conditions and without anesthesia

[probablyasocialecologist]

A scenario that Gaza’s rescue workers have been encountering regularly is having to try to calm children who are stuck beneath the ruins of their home. “The children call out from the rubble asking about their family members,” Musa continued. “We sometimes lie and tell them everyone is okay so that they don’t go into shock. Other times, they call out to tell us that a family member lying next to them has been martyred.” For Musa, it often feels like he and his colleagues are fighting a losing battle. “It’s not one or two houses being bombed, but entire residential complexes,” he explained. “The whole area is completely erased and becomes a single pile of rubble. We need to dig with our hands to remove injured people who are still alive. We try to be careful because the weight of the rubble on their bodies could mean that we could injure them, even costing them limbs, in our attempts to save them.”

[...]

Despite the horrors they are facing, Musa and Abu Khudair both find real purpose in their work. “We feel that these are our children, our siblings, our families whom we are saving,” Musa explained. “We feel a sense of victory when we succeed in safely removing someone from the rubble. But when we hear the cries of help from children under the rubble, none of us can hold back our tears.”  “This is our work,” said Abu Khudair. “Even though Israel does not respect international law, the law is on our side and we are protected by the will of God.”

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

This is the devastating reality in gaza.

Even if children don't lose their lives during the bombing, they lose their limbs, their loved ones. You know how many kids who lost their legs loved playing football? How many loved to run and walk and ride a bike? How many lost their arms who can no longer feel it, no longer wear a bracelet around their wrist? There are kids who lost their eyesight due to the bombing And getting crushed under the rubble. Keep demanding a ceasefire, this should not still be happening. 44th day.

[rjalker]

Zionists cannot be Cripplepunk. You cannot support all physically disabled people if you support the occupation and genocide in Palestine. Thousands of Palestinians are being maimed every single fucking day by Israel's war crimes and genocide. You are not fucking Cripplepunk if you support this fucking genocide. You cannot fucking claim you fight for the rights of all physically disabled people while supporting Israel sending bombs with fucking blades designed specifically to maim civilians. Every fucking day little children and adults alike are losing limbs in Gaza because of Israel's genocidal rampage. You are not fucking Cripplepunk if you support this crime against humanity.

[strangeracrossthestreet]

You know, it's very curious how every time Hamas' freedom fighters do something, Israel just bombs Gaza Strip as a response, targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.

Isn't that curious?

I think it's very curious.

It's almost like they are using Hamas as an excuse, or something.

Israel does not even try to disguise how much they don't care about Palestinians. Israel does not try to hide how it thinks that Palestinians do not deserve human rights and self-determination.

Where was Hamas during the Great March of Return where people were shot by the thousands, losing limbs, being killed for having the nerve to protest, the nerve to want to be free and go back home. (wanting to go back home...now isn't that ironic? In their oh-so-righteous quest for a home, Israel destroys the homes and lives of the Palestinian people.)

Where was Hamas when you detain children and beat them and humiliate them?

Where was Hamas when journalists and medics are killed?

Where is Hamas in the West Bank where illegal settlements and settlers constantly threaten the lives of Palestinians? Constant harassment, constant threats, constant destruction of property.

Where is Hamas in Jerusalem where homes are being demolished? Where people do not have the same rights as those who come from the other side of the world to take their homes as their own.

Hamas is the Boogeyman in your minds, so you can feel at ease terrorising, killing, assaulting, displacing, ethnically cleansing hundreds of thousands of people.

The word "terrorists" is an excuse to let it all happen.

The word "Hamas" is an excuse to let it all happen.

You are disgraceful.

A vile regime that cries wolf again, and again, and again.

And the world lets them.

Disgraceful. Shameful. Disgusting.

All the atrocities, allowed in the name of profit.

The very notion that Hamas is doing any of this out of their own free will is disingenuous, fueled by racism, and it ignores the 70+ years of continuous violence brought upon the Palestinian people by the illegal occupying force of Israel. It ignores what the Gaza Strip is, it ignores the mental terror Palestinians live through and are born into.

The collective trauma of the Holocaust, the collective trauma of an apartheid state itself, is being used to go through with Genocide of an entire peoples.

I hear people talking about this being a cycle. It is not.

Early on, I too thought it was a cycle, as violence begets violence, but it is not.

Palestinians are resisting their very annihilation.

I will not ask of them to be merciful, even though they are.

I will not ask of them to be gentle, even though they are.

I will not ask them to die slowly and quietly for my peace of mind as Israel chokes them of their lives, chokes them of their lands year after painful year.

I will not condemn their struggle.

Israel was not merciful to them. Israel was not gentle to them.

Israel is a state that exists on the backs of countless Palestinian deaths. That, I condemn.

[jayflrt]

as a confused person, i ask you this question.

why do you support palestine? like, gaza started the war didn't they? israel is only defending itself, and suddenly when they're losing the war, palestine is playing the helpless victim role when they aren't innocent angels. like i saw a video of them hanging their own children, tiny tiny babies, outside their windows to safeguard their homes. why should i support people like that?

islam pretends to be a religion of peace when it actually is the only religion that i know which is so violent like, the quran justifies objectification of women and promotes violence against them, and it is said in quran that it is okay to kill people who refuse to convert.

so why support them when they aren't doing any good to society, instead, are only being harmful?

first of all, let me correct you that this isn't a war, this is a GENOCIDE. a war would mean equal footing, but this is clearly an ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism. second of all, gaza didn't start anything. gaza is a city. and no, israel is a settler colony who began their colonization of palestine 74 years ago, destroying 540+ palestinian towns and keeping 7.2 million palestinians as refugees to continue their occupation on land they stole. i don't know what you mean by "suddenly losing" because palestine has been oppressed by israel for years on end now. and "playing the helpless victim role"? since october 7th, gaza's death toll has surpassed 30,000. you think they're playing victim?

as for your accusation that they're hanging children and babies to safeguard their homes, i could only find this 💀 does your accusation even make sense to you? israel is dropping bombs on buildings and you think a child's body is gonna protect their homes against explosives?

also i haven't read the quran but even the bible has the same concepts taken out of context like that which will not make sense to you unless you read the context around it. i am not religious at all but if you really want to understand the quran then have these conversations with muslim people. there are almost 2 million muslims in the world and you think they all believe in objectifying women and killing those who don't follow their religion? there are even parts in the bible you won't agree with, but are you demonizing an entire religion for their religious text? either way, israel is colonizing palestine over land, not religion (edit: forgot to mention this but saying islam is the only religion you know to be violent is insane considering christians started the crusades against muslims)

palestinians are cut off from the internet, cut off from clean water and food, and barely have working hospitals. they can't even use anesthesia for the life-threatening operations they have to do. you see children with limbs blasted off in the media every day and you still have the audacity to come into my ask box and ask me why i'm supporting palestine?

disrespectfully, go fuck yourself and get off my blog if you support israel

[ahaura]

(Dec. 12) [Article] by Hind Khoudary

Article title:

Diary from Gaza: 'If death doesn’t come from airstrikes, it will come from starvation

Article subtitle:

Hind Khoudary, with the World Food Programme in Gaza, recounts hard days in the strip during and after a brief humanitarian pause

Article text:

After seven weeks of relentless bombardment that left 80 percent of Gaza's population – 1.8 million people – displaced, trapped and acutely hungry, a week-long humanitarian pause came into effect offering a temporary respite and allowing some aid into the small, decimated and fully-deprived enclave where food, water, medicine and any of life's necessities are dangerously low. 

Hind, a native of Gaza, has made it her life's mission to share the stories of her people. In this account, she bears witness to the suffering befalling Gaza and how she and others are surviving. For weeks, Hind reported on life in Gaza. Below, she shares her story of displacement, the loss of her home, days without food, losing hope and finding it again.

Caption: A displaced Palestinian family now living in a makeshift camp in southern Gaza without water, electricity, or enough food. Photo: WFP/Ali Jadallah

24 November I woke up today to an unfamiliar silence. The absence of warplanes, drones and bombs. The uncertainty that it would last felt uneasy.

On the first day of the temporary pause, our footsteps led us to the Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital, where ambulances were transporting civilians wounded by gunshots on a road that was supposed to be safe. “We wanted to go back home,” a man with an injury in his right leg screamed.

People were shouting, doctors were in a rush trying to save those injured in their lower limbs from amputation. The hospital’s floors, once pristine, were now painted in the shades of spilled blood. As I looked around at the blood-soaked ground, I couldn't help but question, “Where is the ceasefire?”

Caption: Non-stop bombardment has decimated homes and buildings in Gaza, with families now living amid the rubble and searching for debris to make a fire to cook. Photo: WFP/Ali Jadallah

On that day at least 17 Palestinians were injured. Yet, as the day unfolded, an unsettling normalcy settled in – a silence that didn’t seem to care for the ruthless acts that left dozens of Palestinians dead or injured on the supposed respite's very first day.

In the midst of the heart-wrenching scenes, I decided to seek solace at the shore of Gaza, yearning for the calm sight of the sea and the soothing rhythm of the waves. The shore that I had been a stranger to for six weeks. Barefoot on the sand, I took a deep breath. All I hope for is an end to the violence.

Caption: The author and Palestinian families enjoy some respite on the shore of Gaza on the first day of the humanitarian pause (24 November). Photo courtesy of the author

Children were swimming in the sea, laughing and playing – seemingly oblivious to the war. Gazans used to gather at the sea for picnics with friends and family, but today there were none. The absence of any food underscored the stark contrast between the ordinary joys of life and the grim reality of conflict.

25 November

The humanitarian pause agreement was meant to allow aid into the Gaza Strip. And yet, the supermarket shelves were empty. People were searching for salt, yeast and wheat flour to make bread. Everyone was desperately searching for ways to bring bread back into their lives, in supermarkets or on the streets – but no one can find.

A sign stapled on a supermarket entrance read: “WE DO NOT HAVE YEAST OR SALT”.

We went to Deir El Balah’s marketplace searching for food, but we could not find any. Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, eggplant and oranges are all you can find. We even searched for winter clothes and blankets; we also did not find any.

If some supermarkets had anything at all on their shelves, it was soap and shampoo. 

People are still going to shops, navigating aisles in the hope of finding anything they can return with to their children yearning for sweets. But how do you soothe a child crying for chocolate when you cannot even make them bread?

There is not enough food or aid reaching all of the people in the Gaza Strip.

Caption: In in Deir El Balah people crowd a market searching for food, while shop shelves are empty. Photo: WFP/Ali Jadallah

6:00 pm: I found out my home was  bombed from a video shared by someone on Instagram. I am still in denial. I won’t believe it until I see it with my own eyes. But I can’t.

Home is a couple of minutes away, but I cannot even go search for my belongings because people are restricted from going there. Gaza has been a besieged enclave since 2007 and Palestinians have had to deal with the lack of freedom in moving within the Strip or leaving it.  

A temporary ceasefire without going back home was cruel.  It is not only me. “Can we go back to our homes?”, is the only question everyone is asking. Not being able to go back home made me sad and depressed. But not being able to mobilize from the north to the south of Gaza has been suffocating more than bombardment.

During the seven-day humanitarian pause, WFP and partners managed to scale-up assistance and reach people in areas that were cut off from aid for weeks. Hundreds of humanitarian aid trucks crossed into Gaza, but this was not enough in the face of the catastrophe unfolding. 

Then the fighting resumed once again, and with it, more displacement, the risk of famine, and disease.

1 December

On 7am on Friday morning, we woke up to the sound of explosions and drones buzzing in the sky.

We knew it was coming, but no one was ready for all of that to start again after seven days of calmness without the buzzing noise of drones.

Israeli warplanes started launching multiple air raids across Gaza, targeting residential areas everywhere in Gaza. Explosions have not stopped since the resumption of the fighting. Artillery shelling, drones, warplanes, gunboats fire have not stopped.

In the first 24 hours reports say at least 200 Palestinians were killed. Thousands remain under the rubble where the civil defence teams can’t rescue all of these people.

However, the Israeli forces published a map with block numbers. Every area was given a block number, where they will start giving each block instructions to evacuate. But no one knows which block their home has been assigned and no one knows where to go. They run from one area being bombed to another. 

People were frustrated and terrified, they were already displaced from their homes to areas in Gaza that they were told would be safe. But the reality is this: in Gaza no place is safe. People are fleeing from one death to another.

Caption: Relentless bombardment on Gaza has displaced more than 85 percent of the population. Photo: WFP/Ali Jadallah

If death doesn’t come from airstrikes, it will come from starvation.

Today, we were sharing a bottle of juice that a friend managed to find. We were rationing it among ourselves when a massive explosion unexpectedly occurred close to where we are staying, we ran into each other fearing another explosion. This was the last bottle of juice we had in stock. I hadn’t managed to take a sip. 

Today, I was intensely hungry. The only thing I could find was zaatar (thyme) and some bread that my friend’s mother made over firewood. To secure some wheat flour to bake bread, families can pay astronomical amounts of money. In one area inside Gaza, a bag of wheat flour – a rare find these days – was 400 NIS (US$ 107).

Food options are now a thing of the past. We no longer have a choice of what to eat, we eat what is available.

I yearned for something sweet. It has been so long without anything that I have forgotten the taste of pancakes with bananas.

4 December 

We have officially run out of food.  We went to the market to look for something to to eat and returned with cucumbers. We are drained, dehydrated, starving and cold. 

People in Gaza city do not even have the freedom to search for food. Anyone who moves would be risking their lives. Neighbours have opened their doors to share whatever they have between them. 

Now that the middle area of Gaza has been cut off, no aid has entered. People were asking to move but we have no way to leave and nowhere to go. The situation has been devastating more than ever.

We are starving. We are trapped. We are under non-stop explosions, airstrikes, artillery shelling, gunboat fire. Everything, everywhere, all at once. 

We have no access to water - even dirty water - electricity, food, nothing. 

Caption: Gazans forced to live in makeshift camps in southern Gaza line up to fill water in jerry cans. Photo: WFP/Ali Jadallah

Yesterday the first meal we had was at 8 pm. I was hungry all day long but I didn’t tell anyone because everyone was hungry too. 

Today, in the morning, we had some bread for breakfast. But I cannot help but think  “When will this end? When will we go home?“- despite our homes being bombed. Nothing exists. Nothing feels the same. It’s raining now, I just heard an airstrike. 

People are tense, fragile and cold.  They don’t have winter clothes, when they evacuated, they did not have time to take any of their clothes, belongings, loved things. 

Me too. When I went out of the house, I went as if I was going to work and coming back. I ended up never coming back again.

Everything is heart-breaking and overwhelming. All of these babies, and children and dead bodies.

I hate the sirens of the ambulance. I hate seeing it rain because I know everyone is shivering, it is very cold. 

Caption: The food brought in during the humanitarian pause was not enough to meet the soaring needs of the people of Gaza. Photo: WFP/Ali Jadallah

We haven't had electricity since the first couple of days. I forgot what electricity means. 

I miss sleeping on my bed. I miss my mom. I miss my family. I didn’t get to see them for more than two hours in the past 60 days.

The violence is increasing day after day. More people are being killed, starved. We are witnessing all of this and we can’t do anything.

It’s heart-breaking to live through this with no end in sight.  It is hard for me to accept that I cannot do anything but witness this carnage with everyone else in the Gaza Strip. 

[moogle159]

Palestinian children have lost limbs, homes, families and friends. Everything has been painfully ripped from them.

For those who are desperate to not believe what is happening these are just a few of the 1000+ Palestian children who are now amputees, I found all their stories simply by searching 'palestine amputees' there are many many more:

(Please let me know if any of the children below have gofundmes or any updates and I will share them)

Razan Muneer Arafat, age 11, lost both legs and her family (no updates found)

Hoor nusseir, age 1, lost hand and her family (has now been evacuated to qatar for treatment).

Adam Salem, 16, lost his leg (was gifted a prosthetic leg from a non profit)

Ibrahim Abu Ali, 12, lost his arm (no updates found)

Ahmed Shabat, 4, lost both legs and his family (no updates found)

Salwa UNKNOWN FAMILY NAME, 9, lost leg (no updates found)

Every one of these names is a real child, a real child who just wanted to grow up, play with friends and be with their family but now they have to fight so hard everyday to adapt and stay alive. The Israeli government is evil for what they have done to every innocent person in Palestine over the past 75 years.

I could not find the girl in the picture above if you one knows her name please let me know.

Thank you for reading.

Adam- https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/teen-amputee-from-middle-east-receiving-free-prosthetic-leg-from-metro-non-profit-agency/

Ibrahim- https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2xjoUurU5o/?igsh=enk1ZjEyYTByaXFk

Salwa- www.instagram.com/reel/C1Xd0ynK59V/?igsh=MTd6Ym45NmNnM3J3bw%3D%3D

Hoor- https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2024/2/14/the-toddler-amputees-of-israels-war-on-gaza-hoor-nusseir

Ahmed- https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/bombarded-twice-gaza-4-year-old-ahmed-loses-parents-then-legs-2023-11-15/

Razan- https://www.instagram.com/wissamgaza/reel/C4fgHjoOyBY/

[audhdnight]

Hey hi hello I am extremely pissed off

Maybe this point has been beaten into the ground already but THE HUMAN SHEILD ARGUMENT IS COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT

While my family members were just telling me that Israel didn’t actually bomb that first hospital everyone was up in arms about, Israel bombed THREE MORE HOSPITALS. And immediately after began a campaign to completely decimate the entire health system. THEY DONT HAVE ANY FUNCTIONAL HOSPITALS LEFT

But when I proved to aforementioned dumbass idf bootlicker relatives that YES ACTUALLY THEY DID BOMB THAT HOSPITAL AND NOW ALL THESE OTHERS I get the “wElL hAmAs sHoUlDnT hIdE iN hOsPiTaLs tHeN”

Listen to me. Carefully. Come closer.

I DONT GIVE A SHIT

EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF EVERY SINGLE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN THE FUCKING WORLD COULD HAVE BEEN IN THAT HOSPITAL AND YOU STILL DONT GET TO BOMB A FUCKING HOSPITAL

This applies to the churches and refugee camps and schools and relief centers too. These are places of REFUGE. They are supposed to be SAFE when homes and open streets are not. THATS WHY THIS IS CALLED A FUCKING WAR CRIME.

Do you understand that the people of Gaza (Palestine in general actually but I’m specifically speaking about Gaza right now) have been stripped of all dignity???

They can’t bury their dead, or if they manage to, it’s in mass graves marked with fucking cinder blocks. Bodies can be seen sticking out from under rubble, covered in flies. Because of the ceasefire, doctors have returned to a hospital they were forced to evacuate, leaving patients behind, and found the bodies of the children they were not allowed to take along, rotting in their beds. Imagine the absolute abject misery of being a doctor in Gaza right now. You can’t save everyone, you can’t even save almost everyone. You are forced at gunpoint to make the decision to leave your patients behind so that at least you can continue to help those who leave with you, hoping to return soon enough to save those who remain. Imagine the heartbreak of coming back days later and finding these poor broken bodies. Children with limbs missing or splinted who could not get up out of bed to even try escaping. They died slowly, and painfully.

Gazans are watching as their oppressors burn their olive trees, their cultural heritage, their livelihood, their source of food. Those trees mean so much to them, and have been cared for by generations of the same families in many cases. It’s not just a plant, not just a crop. Those trees are their inheritance, bearing the sweat and blood of their foremothers and forefathers. And Israel burns them.

Gazans are now being punished for COLLECTING RAIN WATER. Because even though Israel bombed the water reservoirs and poured cement in their pipes, apparently the fucking rain still belongs to Israel. Large numbers of deaths come from those who died of dehydration, or those who got sick from drinking dirty water. Illness is everywhere, because not only is the water dirty, but what food they can scavenge has been expired or left open from explosions or picked out of ashes.

These people cannot even eat and drink with human dignity. They don’t have blankets to sleep with despite the fact it is winter and nights are freezing. People sleep in the streets wherever they can find a less rubble covered place. Bisan mentioned in one of her videos from two weeks ago that many people lose clothing every time another bomb drops, and so people are walking around half dressed or in literal shredded rags. Do you wonder why everyone in the videos you see is covered in ash and dirt? It’s because they don’t have water for showers. A bomb falls, sending dust and rubble raining down over every surface, and the survivors just have to walk around like that, wearing the blood of their family members or friends or pets who didn’t make it out.

This is the literal definition of “cruel and unusual punishment”. They have no dignity in life, and certainly none in death. This is inhumane and absolutely disgusting, and I am ashamed to live in a world alongside people who loudly and proudly support it.

I don’t care if you hate me, I don’t care if you think my identity means I shouldn’t have rights. No matter how much I dislike or abhor someone, I still know they deserve their dignity. All humans should have that most bare minimum of basic rights.

[tieflingkisser]

Yitzhak Rabin's 'break their bones' doctrine continues to haunt Gaza's disabled

Israel's deliberate targeting of disabled persons in Gaza is a strategy, with 'bone breaker' Yitzhak Rabin its architect, writes Burak Elmali. 

From the reported use of the R9X Hellfire missile on the Al Shifa Hospital courtyard — which shreds its victims — to the abuse of white phosphorus, Israel liberally employs new forms of sadism, leaving Gazans mourning the consequences. The statistics are harrowing. Every day in Gaza more than 10 children lose a limb. Of the 1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza currently displaced, 15% have a disability. Before October 7, a fifth of households in Gaza had at least one family member with a disability. Yet few realise how much former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin influenced this culture of violence and how his doctrine has since evolved. Far removed from the myth of a peacemaker, Yitzhak Rabin’s response to the non-violent Intifada was to institute a policy of “force, might, and beatings” towards Palestinians, demanding that soldiers “break their bones”. The then-Defense Minister made maiming Palestinians part of the “accepted norm in that period,” confessed Israeli colonel Yehuda Mair at trial. This led a UN Human Rights Commission to conclude Israel’s policies during the First Intifada constituted grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, declaring Israel’s actions to be “war crimes” and an “affront to humanity”.

[keep reading]

[sayruq]

More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago, said Save the Children. Since 7 October, more than 1,000 children have had one or both legs amputated, according to UNICEF. Many of these operations on children were done without anaesthetic, with the healthcare system in Gaza crippled by the conflict, and major shortages of doctors and nurses, and medical supplies like anaesthesia and antibiotics, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

[belokhvostikova]

Remember the only difference between you and Palestinians is the sheer fucking luck you were born where you were, and those children who are losing limbs, becoming orphans, succumbing trauma, and being killed by constant airstrikes and the weight of tons of rubble crushing them could very much be you or your children in another life.

No one is entitled to build their own apartheidic ethno-state where they please, and I can't even believe that has to be stated. So, while Palestinian journalists post their official goodbyes, because Gaza is truly at a brink of being total destruction, and you still decide to stand with a state who's been committing these atrocities for seventy-five fucking years, I genuinely hope you look back at where you were at this point in history, and feel the upmost unbearable guilt, shame, and embarrassment for standing with genocide.

Let your future children know exactly who you were, supporting a state that was the sole reason why thousands of Palestinians couldn't see to achieve the purest milestone of just simply being able to live, like you did.

[johnkayano]

Continue talking about Palestine.

I dont care if your blog is "too cutesy" (not an excuse, Palestine matters much more than your stupid aesthetics) or you're "not bothered" to, people are DYING. Gaza is being BOMBED as you sit down in the comfort of your own home.

Children and people are losing their caregivers. People are losing their limbs and giving up on their dreams, because they feel they wont make it out. Women, trans men, and etc are not getting the sanitary products needed for menstruation.

Your silence wont go unnoticed. Nobody is free until Palestine is free. 🍉

[educatinggenocide]

ICJ Trial Updates

4 out of 5 Palestinians are experiencing famine type hunger in Gaza.

Death from starvation & disease outweigh bombing.

An average of 247 Palestinians are killed daily.

At lease 3 medics, 2 teachers, 1 UN employee and 1 journalist is killed daily.

An average of 629 Palestinians are wounded daily.

At least 10 Palestinian children will lose a limb.

Aljazeera

[mariemariemaria]

"They [civilians in Gaza] have no way of defending themselves, they have no way of defending their property, their children, their family, and they're basically just hoping for the best, hoping that they won't be killed, hoping they won't be injured, hoping they won't be maimed."

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Dr McMonagle says the IDF has been resistant to bringing ventilators into Gaza.

"I've been told that parts could be used for other purposes. I've been told it could be used to make weapons. I don't know what kind of weapons. I’m not an engineer, but that's the concern that we've been told.

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Dr McMonagle says the patients who came in were "malnourished and severely malnourished."

"Even though people are dying from the war and from the blasts and from crush injuries from the building and from gunshot wounds, we are now in a situation where we're seeing starvation in this day and age, manmade starvation."

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The nature of the injuries means that many patients are left with life-altering conditions, many are losing limbs with no hope of getting a prosthesis. Dr McMonagle believes that even among those whose lives were saved at the field hospital, there will be long-term consequences.

"They can't function, can't work, can't earn money, can't do the normal things. So you've not just crippled the population now, but you've crippled it for the next generation to come as well."

Dr McMonagle travelled several times to Ukraine on similar missions to provide surgery for trauma injuries. He says the big difference in what he’s seeing in Gaza is the number of civilians being brought to the hospital.

"The difference is Ukraine is one military versus another military, for want of a better word. The narrative is like a proper war, if there's such a choice of word. Gaza is a big army against civilians."

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"If our field hospital goes and other NGOs don't get in, then I think we're basically going to sit back in the western world and watch. We're going to watch Gaza die.

"I think history will judge us, just like history judges us in the second world war, just like history judges us after Rwanda and any conflict you can name."