🧵of 11 re #GazaGenocide
Dr Amy Neilson, Australian Dr. just returned from Gaza, on #newsbreakfast:
"I have provided aid in these regions across the world under the auspices of international humanitarian law, of the rules of war, which allow you access to different regions.../2
Dr Amy Neilson, Australian Dr. just returned from Gaza, on #newsbreakfast:
"I have provided aid in these regions across the world under the auspices of international humanitarian law, of the rules of war, which allow you access to different regions.../2
2. "...and allow you to function while you're in those regions. In Gaza, what is happening right now is that Israel is violently failing to abide by the most basic rules of war, and what I saw and what I lived is a consequence of that. /3
3: "The access to the region is very limited; people cannot get in & out. Their aid supplies are not getting in & out; there isn't water, there isn't safe drinking water, there isn't food, there isn't fuel, there isn't medical supplies.../4
4. "The health system has been attacked egregiously, again in ways that I have just absolutely never seen, extraordinary amounts of devastation of hospital structures, medical colleagues detained, murdered, missing. The people are doing what they can... /5
5. "I was with a team at a trauma stabilisation point, in a tent, with some rolled up medical gear... some of that is trauma patients, some of that is patients who experience some of the longer consequences of their wounds from the last many months.../6
6. "..extraordinary non-healing ulcerative wounds across their bodies affecting their most basic life functions... diarrhea... jaundice... hepatitis A... diabetes but no insulin, they're dying of normal medical conditions... that medical care is respected is absolutely gone.../7
7. "I believe this to be a genocide. The consequences are the continuing decimation of Gaza, of Palestine, and the continuing loss of any form of life for the Palestinian people. /8
8. "People are not only experiencing this extraordinary violence which needs to stop in terms of a ceasefire, but they are living under this siege which needs to stop. Their life is kind of going going gone for a lot of people.../9
9. "... they describe not being able to plan, not being able to hope. Schools have been bombed, again, returning to the basics of the rules of war, this isn't just a war between combatants; this is a war on the civilians of Gaza.../10
10. "The consequence for this to go on will be the increased loss of life of civilians of Gaza, and increased inability to function; children won't go to school, universities have been bombed, medical care which is down from a trickle to a drip will become nothing at all." /11
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