Gazal was wounded on November 10th, when, as her family fled Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, shrapnel pierced her left calf. To stop the bleeding, a doctor, who had no access to antiseptic or anesthesia, heated the blade of a kitchen knife and cauterized the wound. Within days, the gash ran with pus and began to smell. By mid-December, when Gazal’s family arrived at Nasser Medical Center—then Gaza’s largest functioning health-care facility—gangrene had set in, necessitating amputation at the hip. On December 17th, a projectile hit the children’s ward of Nasser. Gazal and her mother watched it enter their room, decapitating Gazal’s twelve-year-old roommate and causing the ceiling to collapse.
UNICEF estimates that a thousand children in Gaza have become amputees since the conflict began in October. “This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a London-based plastic-and-reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma, told me recently.
In a now-deleted post, an Israeli occupation soldier posts images showing the abduction of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Among them were children and elderly civilians.
Many of these individuals were reportedly transported to Israeli detention camps, where numerous reports have emerged of systematic torture and deliberate health neglect, resulting in many casualties in these centers.
18 July 2024
Journalist Wadea Abu Alsaoud reports from the site of an IOF bombing attack on displaced people sheltering at Cairo School in Al-Rimal, Gaza City. Nearly a dozen people were martyred, and dozens more wounded. Instagram user mydxb2024 provides a full English translation:
A horrific crime to add to the series of crimes of the Israeli Occupation! There was strike at the gates of a school. These martyrs arrived at the Baptist Hospital. Here are the corpses, as you are now witnessing…after the strike on a school that was housing the displaced…
This is the scene now *camera pointing down moving left to right* here are martyrs also. Children…Children… I mean…it was a horrific massacre committed by the American-Zionist fighter jets against civilians who were present at the gates of a school. A school that housed the displaced was targeted, as you are witnessing.
And a massacre was committed…a new massacre to be added to the series of Israeli Occupation massacres.
**WARNING: GRAPHIC AND EXTREMELY UPSETTING**
BOYCOTTING WORKS: KEEP GOING ✊🏽🇵🇸🔻
McDonald’s has said it will buy its 30-year-old #Israel franchise from Alonyal, taking back ownership of 225 outlets that employ more than 5,000 people." from Al Jazeera English, 05/Apr/2024:
EARLIER TODAY: The Israeli Offence Forces targeted civilians once again with a firebomb, setting ablaze a group of tents in Rafah. These tents were housing displaced Gazan citizens in the “Safety Zone” that Israel has been forcing Gazan citizens into since October. Source.
netizens are desensitising gruesome things that are taking place in Palestine.
even the internet’s reaction to graphic things such as - pictures of injured children, civilians stuck under rubble, dead bodies of families in their destroyed homes etc. is beyond underwhelming.
DO NOT NORMALISE GENOCIDE.
BREAK THE STIGMA.
#save palestine
Don't stop talking about Palestine 🇵🇸
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"Elderly Palestinian couple looking at their former home, now occupied by a couple from Brooklyn. 🇵🇸" [@/RamAbdu on X. April 4th, 2024.]