”Housewives must take an attempt to free our kitchens from European customs which are not applicable to Palestine. We should wholeheartedly stand in favour of healthy Palestine cooking…”
”becoming acclimatized to our old-new homeland.”
So that
→ old is old and new, and
→ new is old and new.
Zionist perverted logic
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Old and new homeland:
ISRAEL IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WITH A 3,000 YEARS HISTORY
THAT BEGAN IN 1948.
The Shooting of Children With Single Gun Shots to the Head
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1a. What we saw in Gaza
Novara Media’s interview with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa (see ch.3 below)
I think that reaction of horror as well as the reaction by people who are perhaps in support of Isra-l trying to create a sort of noise or fog around your findings isn’t surprising because many of the findings are truly horrific.
One in particular is just the frequency with which doctors and nurses and other medical workers in Gaza were encountering children with single gunshot wounds to the head. What can you tell us about your experiences of those kinds of injuries?
Gaza Surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
Yeah, so at the beginning of the article I told a story that some people assumed was made up or… So again a strange response to these things.
But I told the story, so when I was there I kept a journal and the journal probably only captured about half of the cases I saw, maybe even less.
But when I came back a reporter at the Washington Post asked me to send them the journal. So I did it, so I just read through it before I did that and I realized that I had seen 13 children shot in the head in 14 days or that I had documented that I had seen this, so I may have seen more. The time there is definitely a blur.
And I had also gone to a conference, I think in Michigan somewhere, and I’d sat next to Thayer Ahmed, he’s an emergency medicine doctor in Chicago who’s also been to Gaza. And he told me that – when we sat next to each other – I just kind of casually mentioned, “Oh you were in Gaza, nice to meet you. One thing that just blew me away was how many kids I saw shot in the head.”
And his response was, “Oh yeah, me too. Every single day I saw kids shot in the head.” And that surprised me because I had assumed that there was just some either sadistic sniper or drone team or whatever around the European hospital where it was that was doing these things.
But when I spoke to him about it I realized maybe this is actually more widespread.
Now it’s important to remember the vast majority of children who are being injured and killed in Gaza are being injured in explosions. Air strikes, tank shellings, artillery shelling, drone attacks with missiles, whatever it might be.
But the reason that I focused on the shooting of children with single gun shots to the head is because it makes it kind of impossible to deny that they were targeted.
Certainly one kid that gets shot in the head, “Okay yeah, that could have been in a crossfire or an accident or something like that.” Two kids, “Okay fine [sic, this could happen in a crossfire…].”
But when throughout the Gaza Strip for a year in the catchment area of every hospital where an international [doctor] has been present, children are getting shot in the head on a regular – if not daily – basis, that’s not believable, that that’s an accident.
That’s clearly deliberate on the part of the people who are doing the shooting. And it seems quite obvious that it’s just being tolerated by the Isra-lic military.
They have no incentive to stop it and no reason to because the US law enforcement.
Novara Media
Yeah we had strikingly similar testimony last week in [the UK] parliament from a British surgeon called Nizam Mamode who described targeting of children by quadcopters in Gaza, really offering horrific details of the kind of injuries that they receive then.
If solidarity with your fellow humans is not enough of a reason to act, think about how this is going to spill over. This should be frightening for everyone. I recognize that the words I shared with you today are heavy. These are, these words pale in comparison to the reality experienced by Palestinians for over 400 days and 76 years before that. Palestinians don’t need our pity. They don’t need our praise. They need our meaningful and truthful solidarity. And there is no time for despair.
It takes courage to fight a corrupted system, a system that gives disproportionate to countries with terrible records of global violence.
The courage and action by Palestinian health care workers in the face of this genocide presents an exemplary model for all of us. The question I want to last leave you with is, what are we risking?
Testimony by Dr. Ezzideen
Every day at the clinic, I am confronted with a heartbreaking truth that shakes me to my core. Many of the children who come for treatment are accompanied by adults -men or women- who look at me helplessly when I ask about the child’s medical history. Their answers are always the same, and they never get easier to hear:
“These children are not ours. They are the sons and daughters of siblings or relatives who are no longer here- because their parents were killed.”
The weight of this reality is unbearable, yet it is the daily life these children face. Each visit is a reminder of lives torn apart, families shattered, and childhoods forever stolen.
#SaveNorthGaza #GazaGenocide
@ezzingaza, Jan 7, 2025
2. Psychiatric and Psychological Distress
Novara Media
Another aspect of your report deals with the widespread psychiatric and psychological distress.
Feroze Sidhwa
So yeah, the psychological devastation is dramatic. There’s a woman named Arwa, something I forget her last name, unfortunately. She is a, I believe, Syrian and Palestinian descent, and she used to work for CNN. Now she runs an NGO that provides comfort to children in war zones in the Middle East.
And she told a story about (when) she was speaking with a mother in Gaza, and the mother was telling her that her son, a small child, I think maybe four or five years old, has severe psychological problems.
And then the way she put it was, since he saw her sister’s head explode. And this mother went on, and they were, they kept talking.
And eventually this lady, Arwa, realized that this mom had also been there when her daughter’s head had been blown. And at some point, this mother realized that Arwa had realized this.
And she said, I know what you’re thinking, but I have to stay strong. And I can’t think about it right now, because I have a child who’s still alive.
Feroze Sidhwa
That’s- these are things that human beings, human beings have lived (through). They do. And the- what’s going on in Gaza is- even before October 7 was- well beyond that.
Novara Media
That story just told literally took my breath away while you were- while you were telling it.
– Feroze Sidhwa, MD, MPH, FACS, FICS Trauma, acute care, critical care, and general surgeon Northern California Veterans Affairs general surgeon
Served at European Hospital, Khan Younis, March 25-April 8
Secretary/Treasurer, Chest Wall Injury Society
Associate Professor of Surgery, California
Northstate University College of Medicine
Prior humanitarian work in Haiti, West Bank, Ukraine (3 deployments since
2023), and Zimbabwe
Treated victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing French Camp, CA
1. Letter From 99 American Medical Professionals Who Served in Gaza
99 US doctors who volunteered to work in Gaza say they have not seen any militant activity in hospitals
US doctors say they witnessed ‘crimes beyond comprehension,’ urge Biden to ‘immediately withhold military, economic and diplomatic support’ from Israel.
Rabia Iclal Turan
Washington, 06.10.2024
□ comment: No-one in the US administration bothered to respond the 99 US doctors’ letter.
A group of 99 American physicians and medical professionals who volunteered to work in Gaza said they saw no signs of militant activity in the enclave’s hospitals, calling on the Biden administration to immediately cease military, economic and diplomatic support for Israel.
In a letter Thursday to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the group, who collectively spent 254 weeks volunteering at Gaza’s health care facilities, shared their firsthand experiences of the dire humanitarian conditions amid Israel’s ongoing offensive, saying they had “witnessed crimes beyond comprehension.”
“We wish to be absolutely clear: not once did any of us see any type of Palestinian militant activity in any of Gaza’s hospitals or other health care facilities,” they said in the letter, which was published on the website “Gaza Healthcare Letters.”
“We urge you to see that Israel has systematically and deliberately devastated Gaza’s entire health care system and that Israel has targeted our colleagues in Gaza for torture, disappearance, and murder,” they added.
The letter details the suffering of women and children in hospitals, including widespread malnutrition, and a lack of essential medical supplies in Gaza. They also cited a study published in the medical journal Lancet in July that said the death toll in Gaza has already surpassed 118,000, more than 5% of Gaza’s population.
“Every day I saw babies die. They had been born healthy. Their mothers were so malnourished that they could not breastfeed, and we lacked formula or clean water to feed them, so they starved,” said Asma Taha, a pediatric nurse practitioner, as quoted in the letter.
“Gaza was the first time I held a baby’s brains in my hand. The first of many,” Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic and hand surgeon, said in the letter.
Doctors said in the letter that Israel’s “continued, repeated” displacement of the malnourished and sick population of Gaza, half of whom are children, to areas without running water or even toilets available is "absolutely shocking.”
“It is impossible that such widespread shooting of young children throughout Gaza, sustained over the course of an entire year, is accidental or unknown to the highest Israeli civilian and military authorities,” they said.
The group demanded that the Biden administration support an international arms embargo on both Israel and Palestinian groups until a permanent cease-fire is reached and both Israeli and Palestinian hostages are released. The signatories also asked for a meeting with Biden and Harris to discuss what they saw and why they feel American policy in the Middle East “must change immediately.”
They also reiterated their calls in their July 25 letter, including reopening the Rafah crossing to allow humanitarian aid, including water and medical supplies, into Gaza.
“Every day that we continue supplying weapons and munitions to Israel is another day that women are shredded by our bombs and children are murdered with our bullets,” they said.
2. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan briefs the UNSC (United Nations Security Council):
“After the Isra-lic military raided the hospital people were blindfolded and undressed, patients on crutches were put on the ground as Israeli soldiers took celebratory pictures with healthcare workers in humiliating positions. The hospital was burned down and Dr. Abu Safiya was taken… We are pleading to the world, to the people and states that make up this very body, to show us that international humanitarian law matters, that human rights are universally applied, and to stay true to the very reason that this body was created.”
@Tanyaalih, @AssalRad, 2025-01-03
Longer clip here:
“Since October of last year, healthcare workers have become a clear target of Israel’s military violence. Our colleagues have been killed, maimed, unlawfully detained and tortured. Over 1000 healthcare workers have been killed… Why? It’s because hospitals and… pic.twitter.com/AOycwGwNHK
This interview with Doctor Victoria Rose is devastating…it makes the stone cry as we say in Arabic.
They target children with quadcopters.
@abierkhatib 2025, Jan 18
This interview with Doctor Victoria Rose is devastating…it makes the stone cry as we say in Arabic.