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Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: U.S. Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse (www.democracynow.org)

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As the official death toll in Gaza passes more than 42,400, the true number may be impossible to know until Israel’s war is over. But medical workers who witnessed the carnage in Gaza’s hospitals are speaking out. We speak with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa about his op-ed in The New York Times that features harrowing stories from dozens of healthcare workers and CT scans of children shot in the head or the left side of the chest.

The Times called the corresponding images of the patients too graphic to publish. “I personally wish that Americans could see more of what it looks like when a child is shot in the head, when a child is flayed open by bombs,” says Sidhwa. “I think it would make us think a little bit more about what we do in the world.”

We also speak with Palestinian nurse Rajaa Musleh, who worked at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. “I will never forget the dogs were eating the dead body inside Shifa Hospital at the front of the emergency department.

This will be stuck on my mind for my whole life,” says Musleh. “My message for the whole world: We are human beings. We are not numbers. We have the right to receive healthcare inside Gaza.”

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[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 31 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Fuck that, none of us can do anything to stop it. Blame the actual people doing it.

[–] youreascum@leminal.space 4 points 8 hours ago

Biden's the one giving out the bombs.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 27 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

We can help protest to change the current administration's policies and be part of the resistance, whether small or large, money or time, everything helps. Collective action is the best tool we have, even if we have little power individually.

https://www.ceasefirenow.org/

https://ceasefiretoday.com/

https://uscpr.org/take-action/

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

"Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963

[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The unfortunate truth is protesting will do nothing. Just last year the massive college campus protests were brushed off as "kids who haven't grown up yet" by Democrats.

It's a pretty hot take but imo the only path forward in the US is a regime change if you catch my drift. At the end of the day you won't get a group of politicians to all agree to light their paycheck on fire. (AIPAC)

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

I don't really disagree, except for that protesting does nothing. America is a dying empire, a regime change is bound to happen eventually in some way.

Protesting has moved the needle on public sentiment and expanded the influence of the BDS movement.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

People are so used to being expected to take personal responsibility for large scale crimes they have zero chance of impacting individually, like recycling or climate change, it's their default setting now just like their owners want it.

But you'll never hear these self flagellates take personal responsibility for Myanmar, Sudan, Iraq, Syria, China, or the Central African Republic because they only see Palestine in the news. They don't actually care about human suffering, only insofar as it is used to make them uncomfortable.

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

People absolutely should take responsibility for recycling and climate change.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

We should definitely act in meaningful ways but we are not in any way responsible for the actions of others.

[–] youreascum@leminal.space 1 points 8 hours ago

You do if you give them the bombs.