MSF's frontline medical testimony on systematic mass casualties from GHF sites in Gaza
This breaks my soul.
The tweet contains a video of the Head of MSF speaking to Sky News, but here is the report itself.
THIS IS NOT AID. THIS IS ORCHESTRATED KILLING
MSF’s frontline medical testimony on systematic mass casualties from GHF sites in Gaza
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has documented in a new report the “horrors witnessed by MSF staff at two clinics that regularly received mass influxes of casualties” following Israeli violence at sites run by the GHF, the Israeli-US proxy that has militarized food distribution.
Between June 7 and July 24, 1,380 casualties, including 28 dead, were received at MSF’s Al-Mawasi and Al-Attar clinics in southern Gaza, located near the GHF-run distribution sites.
During those seven weeks, MSF teams treated 71 children for gunshot wounds, 25 of whom were under the age of 15.
The report states: “Faced with no alternatives to find food, starved families frequently send teenage boys into this lethal environment, as they are often the only males in the household physically able to make the journey.
Patients have also included a 12-year-old boy hit by a bullet that had passed all the way through his abdomen, and five young girls, one of whom was only 8 years old and suffered a gunshot wound to her chest.”
MSF General Director for MSF Spain Raquel Ayora, says:
“Children shot in the chest while reaching for food. People crushed or suffocated in stampedes. Entire crowds gunned down at distribution points,”
“In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.”
“The GHF distribution sites masquerading as ‘aid’ have morphed into a laboratory of cruelty. This must stop now.”
An initial analysis of the gunshot wounds among patients arriving at the Al-Mawasi clinic found that 11 per cent of the gunshot injuries were to the head and neck, while 19 per cent were to areas covering the chest, abdomen, and back. By contrast, people arriving from the Khan Younis Distribution Centre were far more likely to arrive with gunshot wounds to the lower limbs.
MSF says: “The distinct patterns and anatomical precision of these injuries strongly suggests the intentional targeting of people within and around the distribution sites, rather than accidental or indiscriminate fire.”
The report continues: “In May, Israeli authorities sought to dismantle the UN-led humanitarian response and replace it with a militarized food distribution scheme operated by GHF. All four GHF-run distribution sites are in areas under full Israeli military control, and “secured” by private American armed contractors. The GHF has been touted by the Israeli and US governments as an “innovative solution” – a supposed answer to their unproven claims of aid diversion in Gaza and unfounded accusations of UN failure. The sites are nothing but a deadly scheme, institutionalising the Israeli authorities’ starvation policy of Gaza that started on 2 March, with the full siege they imposed on the Strip as part of their ongoing genocidal campaign.”
People who manage to secure any food rations at the sites often face the risk of violent looting and theft of aid by other starved people. MSF says its medical teams were required to add a new acronym to their patient registry: BBO – Beaten By Others. This refers to people injured either in the crush of the crowd or by being beaten and robbed of their supplies immediately after receiving them. It is dehumanisation by design.
Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa, MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza says:
“On 1 August, the same day the US special envoy to the Middle East visited GHF sites, 15-year-old Mahmoud Jamal Al-Attar was killed around the Al-Shakoush GHF site while trying to get food,”
“He arrived at the MSF Al-Mawasi clinic after being shot in the chest.”
“We treat only a fraction of the total number of people killed and injured at these sites. There is no other way to describe the murder of children as anything but intentional,” says Zabalgogeazkoa. “Despite the condemnations and calls for dismantling it, the global inaction to stop GHF is baffling.”
🎥 Head of MSF UK spoke to Sky News. Report is linked below.
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there are still some good anchors on MSM so I want to support their shows and easy to switch channels while doing on tasks at home. It does become redundant sometimes though!
Ali Velshi is covering the Sanders fighting oligarchy tour now.
But you are correct about other avenues for information, today there is a choice.
I remember when there where few channels and you had to get up to change the channel and maybe play with the antenna. 
Hopefully I've taught my children well, we had it easier back then in some respects. Too much info is both a blessing and a curse.
I do try.........I have long been impressed with the work DWB / MSF does; they do a good job keeping me updated 
