Children under the rubble die horribly of sepsis over 3-5 days alone, cold, in a dark tomb

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2582

Date

7 August, 2024

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@MacaesBruno

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📍 Gaza

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From an interview with surgeon Feroze Sidhwa who has been to Gaza nad penned an open letter to the Biden administration along with 44 other american doctors about the horrors they witnessed in Gaza and to take appropriate measures.

Transcript available here: https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2024/08/what-a-surgeon-saw-in-gaza -Bruno Maçães: Gaza was a hard place to be even for you, a Western doctor. How hard is it for the children who are there? -Feroze Sidhwa: There are multiple aspects to [the hardship]. But one of them is the way in which a lot of these children have died. Most of them have been killed in explosions where a lot of them would have been trapped under rubble. Some of them are going to die immediately from a concrete block hitting their head or something like that. But a lot of them have just had their leg pinned under the rubble, and because there’s no heavy moving equipment, there’s no way to get to them; they’ve slowly died of sepsis while buried in this dark tomb alone, freezing during the night, boiling during the day. And this would have taken days for each one of them. [It would take] three, four, five days for them to die in this way. It’s horrific to think of the scale of the suffering.

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