Dispatch #136 White Lesbian Age 71 Considers the US-Israel Collaboration in the Most Heinous War Crimes – Killing Trapped Defenseless Palestinians by Fire and by Starvation
- Kathleen A. Maloy
- Mar 21, 2024
- 4 min read
Updated: Aug 26
March 22nd 2024 1157 Days Since Inauguration of First Woman Vice-President
238 Days Until 2024 Presidential Elections 11/5/2024
637 Days Since SCOTUS Ruled American Women Don’t Have Human Rights
168 Days Since Israel Began Genocidal Assault on Palestinians in Gaza
This was a little girl with severe burns, whose burns were so severe that you could see her facial bones through the burns. There was no prospect of her surviving these burns, and we knew she was going to die. But there was no morphine available in the emergency room that day. And that was a frequent occurrence during our stay there. So, we knew she was going to die, but she had to die in agony. There was no way of relieving her pain.
And what made it even worse, if it could be worse than that, was the fact that there was nowhere for her to die in privacy. She was lying on the floor of the emergency room at Al-Aqsa Hospital. There was nowhere else for her to go. So she died in public and in agony. www.democracynow.org/2024/3/21/gaza_doctor_nick_maynard
On March 21st Democracy Now! program titled British Surgeon Describes Children Suffering “Appalling Injuries” in Gaza, Demands Immediate Ceasefire, British surgeon Dr. Nick Maynard, who recently led an emergency medical team at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital, discussed the suffering in Gaza due to the systematic destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system and described the little girl with severe burns (above) whom he will never forget. The increasing presence of malnourished patients that means patients are very likely to experience severe infections post-surgery. The inability of medical staff to follow-up with patients means more patients will die from infected rotting wounds.
Virtually all the patients get severe infective complications of their injuries in their surgery because of the conditions, the overcrowding, the lack of antibiotics, the lack of sterile procedures. And, of course, when people get these infections, when they develop sepsis, that rapidly accelerates the malnutrition…When my colleagues and I returned from Gaza, we were very vocal about the worrying development of malnutrition. And, of course, all our fears have been realized. Now it’s reached the IPC, you know, Category 5 of malnutrition. There is a famine there. And these are people now, and patients and children, who don’t just need food, they need medical treatment for their malnutrition. And even if there were a ceasefire today, there would be many hundreds, if not thousands, of ongoing deaths from the severe malnutrition as a result of this man-made famine that we’re now seeing.
On March 22nd Democracy Now! program titled Children Are Dying”: Doctor Just Back from Gaza Describes Severe Malnutrition, Preventable Infections Dr. Nahreen Ahmed, a pulmonary and critical care doctor spoke about her recent two-week volunteer trip to Gaza, where she says these crises are growing so rapidly that even if aid was increased tomorrow, we would still be in a severe situation where the amount of food would not be enough in the immediate term. It is a horrific experience for all involved.
A child suffering from hunger, this is an extremely painful thing to experience. This is what we’re seeing the most in a hospital in the north of Gaza, where almost every single patient that I saw in the inpatient pediatrics unit was suffering from malnutrition. Each of these children had an infectious complication. Either they were suffering from liver disease from rampant hepatitis A from lack of access to clean water, or they had severe pneumonias that they were even more vulnerable to complications of because of the level of malnutrition, or, you know, diarrheal diseases that were happening for the same reasons. And so, children are dying from infectious processes, as well, the complications of having severe malnutrition.
The US and Israel are committing these war crimes, starving, killing and maiming thousands of children, an entire generation of Palestinian children. Here is another severely burned child who will probably die courtesy of US and Israel the war criminals.
Israel launched its fifth day of attacking al Shifa Hospital -- IDF soldiers geared up like RoboCops and armed with tanks, grenades, automatic weapons, and quadcopters blast their way into Shifa shooting at everyone, killing wounded patients, medical staff, thousands of sheltering women and children, kidnapping medical staff and journalists for torture, and perhaps execution, blowing up the surgical specialties building, and threatening to blow up the entire hospital if complete evacuation does not take place. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-168-u-s-advances-un-security-council-ceasefire-resolution-as-al-shifa-hospital-siege-enters-fifth-day/
Do NOT be misled by media headlines suggesting the US resolution for the UN Security Council actually demanded a ceasefire. In reality, the US used wordplay by calling for support for the ceasefire negotiations in Qatar; this resolution provides no UNSC mandate for an immediate ceasefire. www.democracynow.org/2024/3/22/phyllis_bennis_ceasefire_talks_israel_palestine
Biden continues to ask for $14B in military assistance for Israel without conditions. Despite Biden’s statements that Israel should not launch a ground invasion into Rafah, Netanyahu defiantly declares he will do so. An IDF delegation has arrived in Washington DC to discuss various options for invading Rafah with US officials. Israeli Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant will arrive in Washington to discuss the list of weapons Israel needs. Biden, Blinken and Harris have suddenly discovered famine in Gaza. And that “too many innocents have been killed.” N.B. passive exonerative. And so it goes.
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