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Doctor without Borders testimony from Gaza: "They're making Gaza unlivable. They've destroyed the Water infrastructure and so we were seeing kids die of diarrheal illness. They prevented all medical supplies .. They do not allow medical supplies to children that are dying. With no food, they tried to feed me and they'll tell you the same. With no food they tried to feed me. Then we would have asked "what we could do?" because there were so little we could do as doctors. They said just make sure people know we're here. On the first day I was there in, we were in a small trauma Bay in the ER. And when the first mass casualty, which was one of almost one every day I was there, occurred, and we could hear the bombs in the distance. And we knew that about 45 minutes later people would come in pieces, that children would be carried in pieces by their loved ones, on donkey carts and an ambulance. It's four or five in one ambulance. There was a young woman who got laid up right next to the young boy I was treating. She was 22 or 23 years old, full body surface area burns, and she was unable to speak because she likely had inhalational injury because the same burns that burned her skin likely burned her airway. And a woman screamed from outside the door handle. She's pregnant. And so we turned her over quickly because she had come in, lay down on her belly and somebody put an ultrasound probe on her belly and she had a viable 18 to 20 week pregnancy. But when we did our secondary survey and tried to understand what other injuries she had, she had a shattered rip from an explosive injury. She had burns that covered over 70% of her surface area, which is a death sentence in an environment where you can't find gauze and there isn't clean water and there aren't antibiotics. … The first minutes we met her, she was going to die there and her baby would die there and there was nothing we were going to be able to do about it because the Israeli government and the IDF had made it impossible to care for people. And she eventually moved to the ICU and every day she lived until she died she was in pain. And every morning when we round, we'd stop by her bed first. And everyone of us and the guys and medical professionals we'd all keep our mouth shut and keep the tears held back because we knew we couldn't do anything and we knew the inevitable was coming. Until one day I walked in and the bed was empty. The reason I lose sleep and the reason we cry tears isn't sadness anymore. It's a feeling that we have no ability, despite being from the most powerful country in the world providing the bombs that drop on these innocent people, that we have no power to stop the bleeding. And so we call for a ceasefire and a stopping of the bleeding by stopping the sales of bombs. There's no reason, that the bomb that dropped on that young woman's head had to be made in America." - Dr. Ahmad Full testimony https://lnkd.in/gdwqaREK

As many as 25 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza, including two women, were released this morning by Israeli occupation authorities at the Karm Abu Salem crossing, south of the Gaza Strip. The former detainees were subsequently transported to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Elderly Palestinian prisoner Walid Ibrahim Habib from Gaza City was showing injuries throughout his body from brutal torture in Israeli prisons. Israel proceed frequently to mass arbitrary arrest of innocent Palestinian civilians (including children and disabled). Israel keep often Palestinians jailed without charge for an indefinite period of time: https://lnkd.in/dvUHQ2Rs UN report describes widespread abuse of Palestinian detainees, including beatings, dog attacks, the prolonged use of stress positions and sexual assault: https://lnkd.in/d-rsMDf5 It includes also frequent rape: https://lnkd.in/dN5kEjzV Important information (to absolutely read) about the current genocide in this post: https://lnkd.in/dw6dPxHk #palestine #palestinianlivesmatter #genocide #gaza #gazagenocide #israel

CCTV footage captures the Israeli airstrike on the crowded market street in Deir al-Balah today, slaughtering at least 9 Palestinian civilians, including 5 children. Important information (to absolutely read) about the current genocide in this post: https://lnkd.in/dw6dPxHk #palestine #palestinianlivesmatter #genocide #gaza #gazagenocide #israel

"Wake up, my son, please." A Palestinian father mourns his child, who was killed in the latest Israeli massacre at Deir al-Balah street market in Gaza.