"Gaza now has the largest population of child amputees in the world." [@/abrahammatar on X. June 5th, 2024.]
worth mentioning that children who are amputees need several surgeries throughout their lives as their body grows. Even if they make it through this genocide, their lives have been irreversibly changed and they will never have the same opportunities available to them. Shame on those who justify Israel's terrorism.
This. This is important to talk about. The IOF has been permanently disabling Palestinian people purposely for decades, and this mass acceleration of violence continues to inflict pain and suffering in ways that will last and linger and it's heinous. And especially since these amputations cannot be done immediately, it can create further complications:
"Children with war-related amputations will need up to a dozen surgeries on the limb by the time they reach adulthood because the bone keeps growing, experts say. "But even before the conflict there was a shortage of vascular and plastic surgeons, medics say, and Palestinian health authorities say over 300 healthcare workers have been killed since." "Still, Noor, whose right leg may survive intact, is luckier than some children whose limbs were amputated swiftly due to a lack of time or medical expertise, sometimes without anaesthetics. "Unfortunately many of them are really unnecessary," said Sean Casey, WHO Emergency Medical Teams coordinator." "At other times, amputation is the only choice because wounded children arrive in hospital days after the injury." "UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said he saw a child whose injured left leg had begun to decompose because he had been stuck on a bus for more than three days due to military checkpoint delays." "Israel's military spokesperson's unit said an operational debrief was held to draw immediate lessons from the incident and that it would be further examined."
The IOF has made it evident MANY times that they purposely target women, children, and the elderly -the most vulnerable, and they have yet to be stopped and sanctioned. If ANYWHERE else in the world had 1 child who had amputations because of criminal bombardments it would be headlined everywhere around the world and the terrorist state or persons that did this would be marked as such -terrorists. But here you have Israeli and US military committing and being complicit in the mass disabling of Palestinian people -especially children and it's just evil.
