Gaza children victims of inhumane policies

I’ve just listened to a PBS interview of Dr. Victoria Rose, a British reconstructive surgeon with the national Health Service who is on her third medical mission to Gaza. She is currently at Khan Younis Hospital. When asked what has changed this time since her prior missions in Gaza, she said the state of the children. Their emaciated bodies can’t heal their wounds even after surgical intervention.

She explained that there has been no food or other aid entering Gaza since March 2. The trickle of trucks that entered in the past two days have merely unloaded onto trucks in Israel controlled territory of Gaza. The deterioration of sanitation in Gaza is spreading disease. The type of antibiotic that remains in use in Gaza is inadequate for the infections being treated. The wounds have not changed, burns to 50% of the children’s bodies or missile-like penetration wounds of their bodies from debris propelled by explosives.

We can no longer allow the killing, maiming, starving of the innocent children of Gaza. We can no longer accept the constant uprooting of the Gazan people from every place of refuge they temporarily find.

Calling for an end to the inhumane treatment of an entire civilian population is not antisemitism. It is necessary for the survival of our moral fiber as a nation.

Margaret Johnson

Rolling Meadows