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 -Feroze Sidhwa: The ones that survive [explosions] are the ones that we saw. There was a little girl named Juri. She’s this thin little girl. She’s obviously malnourished. She has been her entire life. She’s got necrotic skin on her face from the explosion that ripped part of the skin off; her buttocks are flayed open. Her left leg is missing, like two inches of its femur. Her sciatic nerve’s been cut in half. She’s got maggots falling out of her wounds. It’s horrendous, what is happening to some of these kids.

Somebody might say, it’s war and in war, bad things happen. Children are certainly going to get hurt in a war. That’s understandable. Nevertheless, it’s not exactly clear why these particular munitions have to be dropped on these particular houses. But leaving that aside, it certainly doesn’t explain the children who were shot. And that was a constant issue that we dealt with. We had kids shot in the chest and shot in the head – in other words, clearly deliberate, clearly targeted [since the assault on Gaza began, Israeli authorities have denied that civilians have been deliberately targeted].

When I was writing this letter to the [Biden] administration, I talked to somebody who had been at a different hospital, in a different two-week period, and I asked, “How many kids did you see [who had been] shot?” And he was like, “All the time. Every day, kids were coming in [who had been] shot in the head and chest.” Everyone saw the same thing. It didn’t matter which hospital they [worked at], it didn’t matter when – they all saw the same thing. I was really shocked by that.

BM: Young children?

FS: Yes, I’m not talking about 17-and-a-half-year-olds. I’m talking about pre-teen children, young kids, small kids, kids with small heads, small chests. They all died. When military hardware hits a kid, it goes through a kid’s brain. I can think of one who survived. She actually had two gunshot wounds to the head, but they were both graze wounds. They were actually the only graze wounds I remember seeing.