Thousands of Gazans left maimed by Israeli gunfire by SARAH HELM, The Independent (Nov. 13, 2018)
Thousands of Gazans left maimed by Israeli gunfire by SARAH HELM, The Independent, Nov. 13, 2018
Israel’s army is increasingly using high-velocity bullets that shatter limbs, leaving medics in Gaza at desperation point.
“An 11-year-old child with his leg hanging on by a strip of skin was in one operating theatre where we were attempting a vascular repair, with an eight-year-old shot in the groin in a holding bay, when seven more arrived, also critically injured by sniper fire.”
These are the words of a top British orthopaedic surgeon, normally operating in a state of the art theatre at a London teaching hospital. He was reporting on a typical day of work at Shifa Hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip, where along with scores of other international surgeons, he volunteers to save the lives of Gaza protesters – and, increasingly, their limbs.
The limbs have been shattered by high velocity bullets, fired by Israeli snipers ranged along the barrier which separates Gaza from Israel, keeping 2 million Palestinians penned inside the strip, most of them refugees.
The protesters, part of the ongoing Great March of Return, are demanding an end to their imprisonment in Gaza, and a right to return to what was once – and they say still is – their land on the other side of the fence. In the six months since the protest began, 220 Palestinians have been shot dead, according to the Hamas health authority in Gaza, whose figures are accepted as broadly accurate by independent medical sources, including the International Red Cross (ICRC), but today it is the horrifying number of catastrophic wounds that is breaking Gaza.
Since the start, there have been more than 24,500 casualties, says the Gaza authority, with at least 5,300 protesters shot – by high velocity gunfire, more than a quarter of whom need major and repeated surgery if the leg has any chance of being saved. Hundreds have been amputated and many more of those undergoing surgery will yet lose limbs. …
Tell the Hamas terrorists to stop using human shields and better still, stop attacking Israel and they will be left alone.
kowtow
“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”
― Golda Meir
Classic Liberal
Plenty in the quran about hating Jews. Is there much about loving one’s children?
One has to ask. The sniper has a child in their scope, and presses the trigger.
How can that be justifiable?
stigie
Why is the child in front of the sniper should be the question that is asked !~
krazykiwi
DJW – You really believe IDF soldiers line up children in their sights, and shoot them?
stigie
I think Morris Dancer really believes that KK !~ Just think back to all the drivel he’s written..?
DJ Ward
How does a child get hit with a precision weapon?
They have them in the scope and shoot.
Komata
DJW
The question that has to be asked is WHAT was said child doing to sustain its injuries, and under what circumstances; notably, this is something that the article is very careful not to mention.
What IS mentioned are the usual emotive descriptions, and after re-reading the article, one is left with the impression that it is really no different from any of those written by ‘Anti-Israeli’ newspapers over the last 70 years.
All use the same words, all push the same agenda (Israel bad, ‘Arabs’ good), and all are strident and repetitive in their narative. The same playbook, from the same players.
And as for the ‘Independent’s’ ‘independence / impartiality?
It’s BoD’s seem to have similar roles in similar newspapers. Common causes, common goals… (Just saying).
DJ Ward
The child lives in a prison. The child is not responsible for that prison. The child cannot create a life for themselves. They have no job prospects. They can never travel on an OE. They have lost family members. They have had the family’s land stolen. They have had their homes destroyed. They cannot go on the net and buy toys.
They have no freedom.
Israel is intentionaly killing children.
Komata
DJW
The PLO HAVE done a good job on you haven’t they?
Odakyu-sen
“The sniper has a child in their scope, and presses the trigger.”
Is this the same kind of 11-year-old “child” that exists in South Auckland? All 85 kg and 1.8 m of him?
DJ Ward
Probably not. PI people (Samoans) are the largest race on the planet.
They are more likely the size of the native people who evolved in Palestine. IE the actual Jews. Not the pretend white Jews.
Two studies in 2006 and 2008 suggested that about 40% of Ashkenazi Jews originate maternally from just four female founders which are likely of Near-Eastern origin, while the populations of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewish communities “showed no evidence for a narrow founder effect”.
“80 percent of Ashkenazi maternal ancestry comes from women indigenous to Europe, and [only] 8 percent from the Near East, with the rest uncertain”
IE todays Jews are not related to Israelites and have no cliam to Isreal.
krazykiwi
Since the start, there have been more than 24,500 casualties, says the Gaza authority, with at least 5,300 protesters shot
It is conceivable that some of the 5,300 were sitting in a protest circle singing songs of liberation, but the rest of them were probably organising rocket fire on Israel. 370 were launched on Monday alone.
I presume the balance of 19,200 were hurt when they tripped over pallets of international aid money delivered to Gaza.
DJ Ward
I heard 1 Jew was scratched.
If you sent in a hit squad and assassinate 7 people. Expect a few piddly sky rockets.
The Jews started it.
All_on_Red
Lying anti Semite cunt
krazykiwi
Gaza is the recipient of more foreign aid per hectare than anywhere on earth.
And how do they use it?
They convert this aid to hate. And this hate sees them put the lives of their most vulnerable directly in harm’s way in order to score sympathy points with the world’s unthinking, and with the world’s anti-semites.
There aren’t suitable words to express my disgust at these sub-humans.
DJ Ward
Do they get their land back and freedom of trade?
Or more concentration camp?
Komata
DJW
‘The Jews started it’!
Really, is THAT the best you can manage?
I AM surprised, and thought you could come up with something a little better; that response is SOOOO old…
Morrissey
Not “Jews”. The rogue regime that controls Israel started it. Jewish people all over the world—including Israelis—are vehement opponents of Israel’s crimes.
5.) In the Occupied Territories I saw unbelievable brutality, day after day, night after night. I decided that I would make it my life’s work to cover the Occupation. For this I have been labeled a “self-hating Jew.”
6.) I’m not “covering the Palestinians”—I’m a journalist. I am covering the story, and holding up a mirror to my fellow Israelis, and saying: “You, and each of us, is accountable.”
7.) In Israel there is a broad coalition of opinion, which says “We don’t want to know.” No other society anywhere lives in such willed ignorance, abetted and amplified by the Israeli media and the Jewish establishment in New Zealand and Australia. Israel is becoming increasingly militaristic, nationalistic, and religious.
What are you saying, that up till now they have been using low-velocity bullets?
Good grief.
DJ Ward
Just haven’t been shooting children with sniper rifles until recently.
Apart from when they have been filmed doing it. Like for decades.
OK maybe they have new child friendly sniper rifles.
rightoverlabour
Ah, diddums, did some Hamas Terrorists get to visit their Virgins? Hope their peckers were not injured… No point in 70 plus virgins if the old pistols lost its barrel….
by SARAH HELM, The Independent, Nov. 13, 2018
rangitoto
kowtow
Classic Liberal
Jack5
Longknives
Go Team!!!
DJ Ward
The sniper has a child in their scope, and presses the trigger.
stigie
krazykiwi
stigie
Just think back to all the drivel he’s written..?
DJ Ward
Komata
DJ Ward
The child is not responsible for that prison.
The child cannot create a life for themselves.
They have no job prospects.
They can never travel on an OE.
They have lost family members.
They have had the family’s land stolen.
They have had their homes destroyed.
They cannot go on the net and buy toys.
Komata
Odakyu-sen
DJ Ward
stephieboy
” Not the pretend white Jews”???
DJ Ward
krazykiwi
DJ Ward
All_on_Red
krazykiwi
DJ Ward
Komata
Morrissey
Swifty
DJ Ward
rightoverlabour
cmm