Washington 7-24-2024 WAFA – American doctor, Mark Perlmutter said that Israeli snipers “deliberately” targeted Palestinian children during the recent attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Perlmutter, who spent 30 years in disaster zones around the world, said that what he witnessed in Gaza during his first week exceeded all the tragedies he had seen in his professional career.
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Q. How does Gaza compare?
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- A. All of the disasters I’ve seen, combined; 40 mission trips, thirty years, Ground Zero, earthquakes, all of that combined,
doesn’t equal the level of carnage that I saw against civilians
- , in just my first week in Gaza.
Q. And when you say civilians, is it mostly children?
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- A. Almost exclusively children, I’ve never seen that before. I’ve seen more incinerated children than I’ve ever seen in my entire life, combined. I’ve seen more shredded children, being crushed by buildings, the greatest majority, or bomb explosions. I’ve taken shrapnel as big as my thumb out of an 8-year-old. And then there’s sniper bullets,
I had children that were shot twice
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Q. Wait, you’re saying that children in Gaza are being shot by snipers?
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- A. Definitively. I have two children that I have photographs of, that were
shot so perfectly in their chest I couldn’t put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately
- . And directly on the side of the head, in the same child, no toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the world’s best sniper, and they are dead center shots.
