“Man-Made Hell On Earth”: A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza
“Man-Made Hell On Earth”: A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza
“I saw scenes that were horrific and I never want to see again,” Yasser Khan, a surgeon from Toronto, told Intercepted’s Jeremy Scahill.
Holy fuck, that opening picture, a 6 year old just completed an operation to remove her eyeball damaged by shrapnel. That 1000 yard stare doesn't belong on a 60 year old, never mind a 6 year old. Fuck war.
Okay. This fucking war ends today.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Israeli forces have repeatedly laid siege to hospital facilities, killing hundreds of medical workers and taking captive scores of others, despite thousands of internally displaced Palestinians sheltering in the health care complexes.
Communicable diseases are spreading, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are forced to live in makeshift shelters with little access to toilets or basic sanitary supplies.
Dr. Yasser Khan, a Canadian ophthalmologist and plastic surgeon, just left Gaza where he spent 10 days at the hospital performing eye surgeries on victims of Israeli attacks.
YK: Well, I must admit the first time I went there it was partially getting used to what’s going on, seeing the mass casualties, seeing the hospital, meeting the doctors and the nurses and health care workers, getting familiarized with the surroundings, and also doing the operations.
JS: Dr. Khan, as I’m listening to you, I’m also recalling over these past five-plus months all of the episodes where Israeli forces have attacked or laid siege to hospitals and other medical facilities in Gaza.
And the BBC recently did an exposé documenting what I think can clearly be called the torture of these medical workers, including holding them for prolonged periods in stress positions, dousing them with cold water, using muzzled dogs to menace them, blindfolding them, and leaving them in isolation.
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Like, we all get it. The US is complicit in the genocide in Gaza. I don’t even think a pro-Palestinian president could change that. There is an entire massively powerful infrastructure that, for some fuckin reason, kowtows to Israel—while Israel drags everything that touches it down.
But for those of you that are saying, “fuck Biden, he’s gonna lose [to a more brutal pro-Israel piece of shit]” like…what are you trying to accomplish? What is your point? To say, “I’m not voting for him, so you shouldn’t either?” To what end? Your own sense of “purity?”
We are all horrified by what’s happening to the people of Gaza. But pushing for an even worse case scenario…doesn’t help the people of Gaza. It literally only helps, well, the people who get to hold up the “I’m above it” card, and Israel.
Biden is receiving growing pressure to change course. And he’s far more likely to actually do that than trump would be. In fact, he’d be more impulsive to the calls to be worse. Because the democrats give a shit about the US being seen as they pretend to see it in their minds. Republicans…don’t. And they way they see it in their minds is fucked up. Democrats lie to themselves, yeah, but republicans know exactly what they want, and it’s fuckin dark.
So again, my point in writing all of this: where is the understanding of the nuance of this situation? What is your ideal realistic outcome? Because under a trump presidency, all of our focus would be off Gaza and would instead be refocused back home, where we get all wrapped up in being outraged over every insane decision trump makes that affects our own politics. That can’t be what you want, is it?
All it requires is for one single man, Joe Biden, to change his mind and stop supporting Zionist Israel.
Instead there's this whole idea that Joe Biden doesn't have to change what he is doing and instead it should be millions of Americans swallowing their humanity and voting for a guy who supports Genocide.
That shit is basically Putin's Russia with extra steps.
There is an entire massively powerful infrastructure that, for some fuckin reason, kowtows to Israel
I mean it's gotta be the fact that there are so many more Jews in America than Muslims, right? If that's even the case, I don't even know. But if that's the case (which is my guess), that's gotta be the reason, in my mind. The President will represent the majority for popularity, is what I'm thinking.
This is exactly what Putin wanted when he funded Iran's proxy attack on Israel.
We know. I'm still hoping they replace him at the convention. Ugh.
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That's awful. Have they released the hostages yet?
Israel haven't release the whole Gaza strip, not yet.
Whole palestine for that matter.
You mean the thousands of Palestinians held in "administrative detention" (i.e. held without charge)?
Sadly, no.
Yes, I can confirm with authority that the 7yo little girl depicted in the headlining picture has released the hostages.
Because Israel refuses to end hostilities with a permanent ceasefire
"Everything is Hamas"
the doctors and all the other civilians being murdered and disfigured don't have the hostages you fucking ghoul
"they"