If you could see inside the hospitals in Gaza right now, you’d be left with no doubt that what Israel (along with the US and UK) is doing is evil. I’ve been inside frontline hospitals in the past in order to assess whether or not I would rely on them for treatment, and they are utter chaos. Not only do you have the usual mangled people on hospital beds, but you have families packed in the halls and corridors, some starving and dying from dehydration and illness. You have terrified mothers and children. You have elderly women dying alone in bed from cancer. That’s with organizations still being able to support with medicines, and the buildings having electricity.
Israel has cut off all of that. Not only cut off access to fuel, water, and the most basic painkilling and anesthetic medicines, but also targeted hospitals full of sheltering families. The courage of the men and women to continue working there in the dark, while under bombardment, should make us hang our heads in shame.
Bombs decapitate people. They burn people alive. They tear limbs off. If you saw that happening to your families, you’d go to your grave wanting revenge. Children are in the hospitals now, having been effectively napalmed with white phosphorus. Try changing a child’s dressings from that without painkillers. Try performing life-saving surgery using the light from your phone because there’s no power. This is the result of deliberate decisions made by the Israeli government in order to collectively punish ‘human animals.’ Does anyone want to say that’s not evil?
