Horror Stories From Gaza

by Earl Morningstarr

A Palestinian surgeon has been giving details of the horrific injuries sustained by civilians in Gaza since the latest fighting broke out. Dr Ahmad Yahya, who is a professor of neurosurgery at El Arish Hospital says he is shocked and appalled by the gruesome injuries being inflicted on the Palestinian people by Israeli Defense Forces and their new weapons.

Dr Ahmed is cataloguing the horrific injuries such as babies being shot in the head, babies with broken spines due to being thrown by shell blasts. People burned to the bone by white phosphorus, nail bombs causing brutal injuries and a new phenomena micro pellets which leave no entry wound but cause fatal internal injuries.

According to the professor micro pellets enter the body in large numbers and destroy internal organs such as the brain and lungs.

“You can’t find the entry point because it enters by very small holes in the skin,” he said.

Because the surgeons can’t find the point of entry they have great difficulty diagnosing the extent of the injuries and controlling the bleeding.

“I am a professor but I have not seen or read about this before. Papers and literature on war injury don’t mention these,” he said in an interview yesterday.

Dr Ahmed spoke of the appalling injuries caused by the Israeli forces using white phosphorus, which is outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention. The incendiary is used in grenades and thrown into houses to clear them. If it comes into contact with flesh it burns relentlessly.

“It does not stop burning until it vanishes. So it eats the skin, the muscle even the bone. You can’t repair the wound and the limb must be amputated. You cannot find anything to repair,” Dr Ahmed told us.

The professor even reported that Israeli forces were using nail bombs that explode sending dozens of nails flying through the air, and human bodies. One man lost his penis through a nail bomb wound, Dr Ahmed claims.

“We had a man in his 30s with this nail cutting into his leg and entering his testicles and penis and out the other side. He lost his penis,”

Dr Ahmed, who is often reduced to tears in front of his colleagues due to the ghastliness of his work, has decided to photograph each and every horrific case which comes into the hospital so it can be presented as evidence in any war crimes investigation.

“I want to send it to any lawyer to take action against the killers who are killing civilised people. They are not soldiers. They are civilians. They have no arms, no anti-aircraft weaponry. They have only guns and hand-made rockets. What can that do?” he said.

Dr Ahmed finished his interview with this chilling warning to the Israelis.

“But in the future we will take our account from this. People will not forget this,”

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