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@Spotlight created a Debate
22 days ago
A War Surgeon's lament...
This from Doctor Richard Villar, Consultant orthopaedic surgeon, London...
"... crimes are being committed. I have been a war surgeon in Gaza on three occasions. The first two were for the Great March of Return in 2018, when I was operating in Gaza’s Khan Younis. There, I treated dozens of gunshot wounds to the shinbone (tibia) in men who were aged between 18 and 35. As most doctors will tell you, a shattered shinbone assures a lifetime of disability... I was also in Gaza this year... Most of the multitudinous patients I treated were children, women and elderly people. I never once saw fighters or tunnels, but I did see many families ripped apart and children rendered orphans in a blink... I take no political view, am neither Jew nor Arab... [I] have sleepless nights to this day..."
It's worth noting here that a report on the events of October 7th, published by the OHCHR human rights council in June, confirmed that Israeli Security Forces did apply the ‘Hannibal Directive' on the day. This is the controversial policy of firing on your own personnel in order to avoid the capture of Israeli hostages, and this wouldn't be the first time that they've applied the directive either. In fact it was also used it during the 2014 war on Gaza. The report further reveals that a number of Israeli hostages were killed, by Israeli forces, as a result.
Given that Israel appears to be willing and able to deploy a 'kill' directive on it's own citizens (military & civilian), it shouldn't really shock us to see Israeli soldiers willing to repeatedly target and kill vulnerable, unarmed, Palestinian civilians, including children.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/nov/19/a-war-surgeons-perspective-on-crimes-in-gaza
