Gazal Was Wounded On November 10th, When, As Her Family Fled Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, Shrapnel

“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza. https://t.co/3CyjkzxGMp

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) March 21, 2024
The Children Who Lost Limbs in Gaza
The New Yorker
More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?

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.

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Hey you know what sucks is predatory companies that make you enter your email address so that they can harass and advertise to you to access resources you might need to keep track of expenses after a disaster. So, uh, fuck them.

If you need to track the cost of things like hotel stays, pet kenneling, medical care, etc. after a disaster you can use this worksheet.

If you need to create an inventory of your home for an insurance claim (and if you'd like to do this to keep someplace safe before a disaster) you can use this worksheet (two pages, instructions on the first page, worksheet on the second).

And here's a FEMA document with numbers for disaster relief groups and a checklist of documents that you may need to have replaced as well as a description of what to do if you had cash in your home that was destroyed and can possibly be replaced.


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1 year ago

Tameem | تميم on X: "As we praise South Africa, please don’t forget Yemen also which has been paying in blood & hunger to disrupt the genocide wheel & relieve Palestinians. A dozen of Yemenis were killed in the process by the US, & food aid for millions of Yemenis has been cut off." / X

As we praise South Africa, please don’t forget Yemen also which has been paying in blood & hunger to disrupt the genocide wheel & relieve Palestinians. A dozen of Yemenis were killed in the process by the US, & food aid for millions of Yemenis has been cut off.

— Tameem | تميم (@TameeOliveFern) January 11, 2024

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1 year ago
Israel went to Jenin today, in the West Bank, and kidnapped this 7 year old girl from her family. They do these things often but we rarely catch them on film. pic.twitter.com/k4Af2irVpL

— Carlos Vela 🔻 (@Carl0s_Vela) March 9, 2024
Stripped, beaten and blindfolded: new research reveals ongoing violence and abuse of Palestinian children detained by Israeli military | Sav
Save the Children International
Save the Children report on Palestinian children in Israeli military detention

Palestinian children in the Israel military detention system face physical and emotional abuse, with four out of five (86%) of them being beaten, and 69% strip-searched, according to new research by Save the Children. Nearly half (42%) are injured at the point of arrest, including gunshot wounds and broken bones. Some report violence of a sexual nature and some are transferred to court or between detention centres in small cages, the child rights organisation said.


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1 year ago

Good morning. This might be my last message from the city of Rafah. The occupation [Israel] is carrying out crazy fire. Violent belts. As you’re hearing, there are helicopters. Planes and gunfire from the vehicles. There’s a complete invasion of the city.

We don’t know what is going on in Rafah. The place that the occupation [Israel] claimed to be safe. This is happening all of a sudden; the people didn’t go out. They didn’t do anything. More than thirty targets were hit in just minutes. People were asleep. We woke up to the bombing, to the shooting from the helicopters. It was horrifying. Unacceptable. This might be my last message. Please relay it to the world.

— Hazem, journalist residing in Rafah; 02.11.2024

Rafah was Palestinians’ very last safe zone. There is quite literally nowhere else left to go. And now it’s being bombed with airstrike after airstrike.


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1 year ago
Sally Mohamed Harzallah, a 10-year-old aspiring engineer, was killed by Israel in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/dGrh1gqElE

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 25, 2024

Every single one of the 13,000+ children murdered by Israel was robbed of their futures


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1 year ago

💣 Palestinian children crushed under the rubble of their homes which was bombed by the occupation forces in Rafah. Dozens of Palestinians including women and children were killed.


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1 year ago
They snipered an 8 year old child in the back of the head https://t.co/KOUhGBhkMO

— ashok kumar 🇵🇸 (@broseph_stalin) May 2, 2024
West Bank: Israel Defense Forces accused of possible war crime
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UN expert says death of 8-year-old appears to violate law after reviewing evidence gathered by BBC.

In the early afternoon of 29 November last year, several Palestinian boys descended on to their street in the occupied West Bank, where they often played together.Minutes later, two of them lay dead from gunshots fired by Israeli soldiers - Basil, 15, and eight-year-old Adam. As part of an investigation into the conduct of Israel's security forces in the West Bank, which has been under military occupation for more than half a century, the BBC has pieced together what happened on the day the two boys were killed. Mobile phone and CCTV footage, information about the movements of Israel's military, witness testimony and detailed investigation of the scene, including taking measurements, combine to reveal evidence suggesting serious human rights violations. The evidence we found has prompted Ben Saul, UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, to say the death of Adam appears to be a "war crime".Another legal expert, Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, described the use of lethal force as “indiscriminate”. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the circumstances of the deaths were “under review” but said “live fire is used only in order to remove immediate threats or for arrest purposes, following arrest protocols after exhausting other options”.

Video footage from 29 November shows Basil standing next to a hardware store, its shutters firmly locked down. When Israel's military arrives, shops close quickly in Jenin, a city in the West Bank - Palestinian territory which, unlike Gaza, is not run by Hamas. Witnesses said gunfire had been ringing out from a nearby operation by Israel's army in the Jenin refugee camp. Adam, a football fanatic and massive Lionel Messi fan, stood with his older brother Baha, 14. There were about nine boys on the street in total, all captured on CCTV cameras that provided a nearly 360-degree view of what happened next.

In The Early Afternoon Of 29 November Last Year, Several Palestinian Boys Descended On To Their Street

A few hundred metres away, a convoy of at least six armoured Israeli military vehicles turned a corner and began heading towards the boys, who clearly became uneasy. Several of the boys started to move away. At this precise moment, mobile phone footage shows the front door of an armoured vehicle opened. The soldier inside had a direct view of the boys. Basil had darted into the middle of the road, while Adam was 12m further from the soldiers, running away. Then at least 11 gunshots rang out.

In The Early Afternoon Of 29 November Last Year, Several Palestinian Boys Descended On To Their Street

Medical reports obtained by the BBC show that two shots hit Basil in the chest. Another bullet struck eight-year-old Adam in the back of the head as he ran away; his older brother Baha desperately tried to drag him to cover, leaving a trail of blood as he screamed for an ambulance.


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1 year ago

i dont think there is a word yet that can describe how absolutely vile israel is. they killed thirsty children by targeting a water tank.

I Dont Think There Is A Word Yet That Can Describe How Absolutely Vile Israel Is. They Killed Thirsty
I Dont Think There Is A Word Yet That Can Describe How Absolutely Vile Israel Is. They Killed Thirsty

how inhumane do you have to be to support this, to fund this, to excuse this, to ignore this and pretend as if it isn’t going on?


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1 year ago

What a tragedy we are seeing unfold infront of our eyes.

Digging for his baby for 25 days to give her a dignified burial.

He will never forget. We will never forget. And we will never let the world ever forget what Israel has made Palestinians do these last 75 years and 107 days.


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