Raul Incertis, a doctor in Gaza: I lost count of the number of dead children'

"My name is Raul Incertis, I'm an emergency room doctor and anesthesiologist, and from April to June of this year I volunteered in two hospitals in Gaza. It's not for me to say whether or not there's a genocide in Gaza, but during my time there, I lost count of the number of wounded children who arrived alone at the hospital because their family had been killed in a bombing. I remember a six-year-old girl:"

"She died, and I don't remember her name. Because, by then three weeks after my arrival in Gaza I had already lost count of the mutilated, amputated, crushed, or burned children I and my colleagues had had to treat. And the dead. There's a black cloud in my head, made of abject images, that prevents me from remembering. Many were dying in front of us, despite our efforts to treat them."

"I can't say what constitutes genocide and what doesn't, but from a certain date on, we received civilians who had been shot in the head and chest every day, even several times a day. They were people, like you and me, who were queuing for humanitarian aid, where the Israelis shot them to death with rifles, tank artillery, and grenades launched from mortars or drones. Forty, sixty, ninety wounded at once. One morning we received over two hundred. You stumbled upon wounded lying"

From April to June, hospitals in Gaza received overwhelming numbers of severely injured civilians and children, many arriving alone after family members were killed in bombings. Medical teams treated mutilated, amputated, crushed, and burned patients, often unable to save them despite exhaustive efforts. Corpses arrived continuously on carts to the morgue, many frozen in terror. Countless patients died during care. Civilians queuing for humanitarian aid were shot in the head and chest by rifles, tank artillery, and grenades launched from mortars or drones, creating mass-casualty incidents with tens to over two hundred wounded at once.

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