Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians, Part 11 — February 1 to 10
A documentation of Ziofascist Israel’s genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians from February 1 to 10, 2024. [part 10 / part 12]
February 1
Motaz Azaiza: “The most terrifying pictures, I never took. They never… I never took. I never had the ability to took or even was able. I was shocked, so I couldn’t even take the camera to take it.”
USA:
February 2
Daily, dozens of patients are rushed into the emergency department of Al-Aqsa Shohada Hospital, in Gaza’s Middle Area. No triaging is possible at the bomb sites, it’s a race for ambulance crews to save the ones that can still be saved.
The emergency department is chaos. Critically injured patients lying on cardboard boxes: the beds are full. There are journalists attempting to tell the story of what’s happening here to people who seem determined not to listen. As they step back to record the scene, they sometimes tread, accidentally, on the bodies lying on the floor. Some days the hospital receives more dead than injured.
We first visited Al-Aqsa on 23 November, the day before the announced “humanitarian pause”. That day, the hospital received 314 wounded people and 121 who were dead, or died shortly after arrival. They had expected these overwhelming casualties, explained Gazan colleagues, reminding us that this is not a new conflict. “It’s always like this before a truce,” one colleague told me.
After that first visit, our team began working alongside the staff at Al-Aqsa. It had capacity for 200 in-patients before the war. By the end of December, they had more than triple that number.
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Impossible decisions
One day we were alerted that an MSF staff member and his family had arrived at the emergency department, badly injured. Colleagues rushed to find them as they arrived amidst chaos.
Later Dr Samir* told me, “I had to make a choice: I saw Ghassan* and his son, they needed me, but next to them I saw a woman critically injured, she also needed me. What was I supposed to do?”
Healthcare workers are forced into decisions like this every day.
Ghassan’s son had been hit by shrapnel. He underwent multiple surgeries that day. The injuries to his throat affected his ability to speak. His mother lost an eye. That day, when Dr Samir came out of the operating theatre at 1 am, his MSF jacket was covered in blood.
By the end of December, the team in our wound-dressing unit were seeing on average 150 patients per day, almost all with burns or blast injuries. Many were children. One of our surgeons told me about dressing the wounds of babies who had lost their legs. It stayed with him. Babies who had never learned to walk, and never will.
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Wounded child, no surviving family
Some of those children have a new acronym written on their file. “WCNSF”, which stands for wounded child, no surviving family.
Salma*, nine years old, is one of thousands of WCNSF. She suffered a fractured skull after her house was shelled. One of her legs was broken, the other had been amputated. We met her in the intensive care unit. She still didn’t know that she was the only one who made it out of the rubble alive: the exhausted staff wanted to let her recover physically first.
One of the biggest challenges facing hospitals in South and Middle Gaza is bed capacity. The beds are needed to treat patients in critical condition, but those who have been stabilised have nowhere to go. Where should we send a patient like Salma? What do we say to her?
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Healthcare under attack
Salma was being treated at Al-Aqsa. Like the few other hospitals still partially functioning in Gaza, it can only provide trauma care. Health facilities have faced attacks, evacuation orders, or been starved of supplies, clean water and electricity: I can barely describe the destruction of healthcare I have witnessed.
Many hospitals and basic health centres have been forced to close; services like maternity care or chronic conditions essentially no longer exist.
So, are the people of Gaza no longer sick? Is there no more appendicitis? No asthma or gastro-enteritis? The truth is, that in overcrowded shelters, without food and water, lacking the most basic hygiene conditions, people are sicker than before, but they no longer have access to healthcare.
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Women were rushed in, so dehydrated they had collapsed. Mothers begged for baby formula: with nothing to eat, their breast milk had stopped and their babies were hungry.
On 1 December, as the ‘pause’ ended, the neighbourhood where the health centre was located was ordered to evacuate. Our team was forced to leave and the health centre ceased to function.Children’s trauma
One of the thousands of patients who lost their access to care that day was a five-year-old boy being treated by our psychologist. He had told her in a session that he wanted to die.
In Al-Aqsa hospital, our mental health team held art sessions with children. Some drew their families killed during bombings. They drew the legs and arms of their mothers on the ground, beside their bodies.
The moment when you begin to realize that the well-being of cattle is more important for Ziofascist Israelis than the well-being of Palestinians:
USA:
February 3
One can hear dozens of close explosions during the last video of the journalist Ayat Al-Khadour who was also murdered by Ziofascist Israel:
‘The most moral army in the world’:
‘The most moral population in the world’:
February 4
Also the Ziofascist Israelis: ‘Omg, how can we tell others Ziofascists that our genocidal war criminal and overall insane occupation forces were killed?!’
Responses and suggestions:
USA:
February 5
Aid officials in Gaza believe that “pockets of famine” already exist in the territory, with parents sacrificing remaining food for their children, an apple costing $8 (£6.30) and fuel for cooking almost impossible to find.
UN agencies have said that Gaza urgently needs more humanitarian assistance as Palestinian authorities reported that the death toll in the territory during the Israeli offensive there had risen to more than 24,000.
The World Food Programme, Unicef and the World Health Organization said in a joint statement that new entry routes must be opened to Gaza, more trucks must be allowed in each day, and aid workers and those seeking aid must be allowed to move around safely.
The UN agencies did not directly blame Israel but said aid delivery was hindered by the opening of too few border crossings from Israel, a slow vetting process for trucks and goods going into Gaza, and continuing fighting.
February 6
February 7
USA:
February 8
There is also famine and death by starvation and inflation: A kilogram of sugar, which cost 3 Shekels, now costs 30 and is a big luxury in your tea. 200 Shekels would provide a family with food for a week, now it is barely enough for a single family meal. Meat is generally unavailable.
February 9
Ziofascist settler-colonialist genocidal mentality:
Ziofascist Israeli soldier: “You gotta let it burn baby, burn baby; this house is on fire; this house is on fire.”
Fast forward to the last video in the long thread — the “and all the enemies who were there” indicates that, as is fitting for settler-colonialist genociders and land robbers, all Palestinians are regarded as the enemy:
Starvation:
The torture of the Al Shifa hospital doctor Mohammed Abu Salmiya:
USA: Egypts El-Sisi is now the president of Mexico:
From the longer MSNBC clip which of course does not mention Biden’s evident dementia and senility:
“Genocide Joe” Biden: “Initially, the president of Mexico(!) El-Sisi did not wanna open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. I talked to him. […]”
Public ridicule and amusement ensued:
Mainstream media: Biden’s age is his ‘superpower’:
February 10
Nasser Hospital Sniper Massacres
Ziofascist Israeli snipers in front of Nasser hospital:
Hind Rajab, Yusuf Al-Zaino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun
Western mainstream media:
More from ‘the most moral army in the world’
Human shields:
More attacks on ambulances:
Looting:
Racist, sexist misogyny:
Murders of Palestinian security forces:
USA:
Western lip-service after the axis of genocide contributed to precisely that situation:
