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Showing Original Post only (View all)65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza (Content: Graphic x-rays) [View all]
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.htmlfree link: https://archive.ph/lnts1
I worked as a trauma surgeon in Gaza from March 25 to April 8. Ive volunteered in Ukraine and Haiti, and I grew up in Flint, Mich. Ive seen violence and worked in conflict zones. But of the many things that stood out about working in a hospital in Gaza, one got to me: Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die. Thirteen in total.
At the time, I assumed this had to be the work of a particularly sadistic soldier located nearby. But after returning home, I met an emergency medicine physician who had worked in a different hospital in Gaza two months before me. I couldnt believe the number of kids I saw shot in the head, I told him. To my surprise, he responded: Yeah, me, too. Every single day.
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An enormous amount of information about the extent of the devastation in Gaza has been gleaned from satellite data, humanitarian organizations and Gazas Ministry of Health. However, Israel does not allow journalists or human rights investigators into Gaza outside of a very small number of embedded reporting trips with the Israeli military, and stories from Palestinian journalists in Gaza have not been read widely enough, despite the incredible risks they take in reporting there.
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Using questions based on my own observations and my conversations with fellow doctors and nurses, I worked with Times Opinion to poll 65 health care workers about what they had seen in Gaza. Fifty-seven, including myself, were willing to share their experiences on the record. The other eight participated anonymously, either because they have family in Gaza or the West Bank, or because they fear workplace retaliation. This is what we saw.
At the time, I assumed this had to be the work of a particularly sadistic soldier located nearby. But after returning home, I met an emergency medicine physician who had worked in a different hospital in Gaza two months before me. I couldnt believe the number of kids I saw shot in the head, I told him. To my surprise, he responded: Yeah, me, too. Every single day.
(snip)
An enormous amount of information about the extent of the devastation in Gaza has been gleaned from satellite data, humanitarian organizations and Gazas Ministry of Health. However, Israel does not allow journalists or human rights investigators into Gaza outside of a very small number of embedded reporting trips with the Israeli military, and stories from Palestinian journalists in Gaza have not been read widely enough, despite the incredible risks they take in reporting there.
(snip)
Using questions based on my own observations and my conversations with fellow doctors and nurses, I worked with Times Opinion to poll 65 health care workers about what they had seen in Gaza. Fifty-seven, including myself, were willing to share their experiences on the record. The other eight participated anonymously, either because they have family in Gaza or the West Bank, or because they fear workplace retaliation. This is what we saw.
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65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza (Content: Graphic x-rays) [View all]
WhiskeyGrinder
Oct 9
OP
You know, I often push back here on posts from people who say the crime scene photos of mass shootings in the U.S.
WhiskeyGrinder
Oct 9
#7
The horrible reality of war has been captured on film for well over a hundred years. War has not ended. nt
LexVegas
Oct 9
#13
The IDF are executing children. These are not casualties caused by bombs.
Lonestarblue
17 hrs ago
#51
There may be perfectly acceptable explanations why the extent of bullet penetration may not be a factor,
Beastly Boy
Oct 9
#19
The first thing this statement does is call immediate attention to the incompetence of the NYT editor in
Beastly Boy
Tuesday
#42
"The editor repeatedly refers to the images as "CT scans", while the X-ray images included in the article cannot
WhiskeyGrinder
21 hrs ago
#43
OK but "CT scout image" or "scanogram" or "CT localizer" isn't on that indeed minimally informative graphic.
WhiskeyGrinder
21 hrs ago
#46
If anyone was more informative than this minimally informative data, it didn't register with the author of the rebuttal.
Beastly Boy
18 hrs ago
#47
You started by suggesting an elementary school child with Photoshop could do a better job of creating fake images
Ms. Toad
17 hrs ago
#54
I am quibbling about what you are quibbling about, in response to what you are quibbling about.
Beastly Boy
16 hrs ago
#57
If you are posting an opinion of a professional with extensive experience in image editing,
Beastly Boy
16 hrs ago
#55
The only way I see this conflict stopping is if someone could hold both sides apart...
DSandra
Tuesday
#37
"One 4-year-old girl with major burns to her body was completely dissociated. She was staring out into space, humming
WhiskeyGrinder
Tuesday
#38
If these are deliberate acts and not collateral casualties, I hope that those responsible are found and punished.
WDLAL
21 hrs ago
#45
An interview with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, the trauma surgeon from Flint, Michigan who wrote the article.
Nanjeanne
16 hrs ago
#58
Reads like an excerpt from "How to Genocide 101- Special Edition: Success Stories from a Genocide Foretold"
AloeVera
10 hrs ago
#63
Only way a full metal jacket military sniper round going 2,000mph stops a few inches inside a body..
EX500rider
6 hrs ago
#71