Ninety-nine American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza over the past year published an open letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris on Thursday that detailed the horrors they witnessed and called for an end to US military support for Israel.
The healthcare workers said they believe the true death toll in Gaza is much higher than what Gaza’s Health Ministry is reporting, estimating it to be over 118,908.
“This letter and the appendix show probative evidence that the human toll in Gaza since October is far higher than is understood in the United States,” the letter reads. “It is likely that the death toll from this conflict is already greater than 118,908, an astonishing 5.4% of Gaza’s population.”
The latest numbers from Gaza’s Health Ministry put the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7, 2023, at 41,788. The ministry’s figures only count the bodies that are brought to hospitals and morgues and don’t account for people missing and presumed dead under the rubble.
The American healthcare workers said that everyone in Gaza is either sick, injured, or both. “With only marginal exceptions, everyone in Gaza is sick, injured, or both. This includes every national aid worker, every international volunteer, and probably every Israeli hostage: every man, woman, and child,” the letter says.
They said that almost every child under five they encountered “had both a cough and watery diarrhea.” Each signatory to the letter saw wounds in children that showed they were being purposefully targeted by the Israeli military.
“Specifically, every one of us who worked in an emergency, intensive care, or surgical setting treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head or chest on a regular or even a daily basis,” the letter reads. “It is impossible that such widespread shooting of young children throughout Gaza, sustained over the course of an entire year is accidental or unknown to the highest Israeli civilian and military authorities.”
Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic and hand surgeon, was quoted in the letter saying, “Gaza was the first time I held a baby’s brains in my hand. The first of many.”
The healthcare workers said newborn babies were dying due to the conditions caused by the Israeli siege and attacks on hospitals. Asma Taha, a pediatric nurse practitioner, said, “Every day, I saw babies die. They had been born healthy. Their mothers were so malnourished that they could not breastfeed, and we lacked formula or clean water to feed them, so they starved.”
The healthcare workers said their Palestinian colleagues were targeted by Israeli forces and captured during Israeli raids on hospitals. “Many of these colleagues of ours were taken by Israel during the attacks. They all told us a slightly different version of the same story: in captivity, they were barely fed, continuously physically and psychologically abused, and finally dumped naked on the side of a road. Many told us they were subjected to mock executions and other forms of mistreatment and torture,” the letter reads.
Israel claims Hamas has used hospitals as “command centers,” but the letter said that none of its signatories saw any sign of militant activity. “The 99 signatories to this letter spent a combined 254 weeks inside Gaza’s largest hospitals and clinics. We wish to be absolutely clear: not once did any of us see any type of Palestinian militant activity in any of Gaza’s hospitals or other healthcare facilities,” the letter reads.
The letter concludes with a plea for Biden and Harris to end US support for the genocidal war: “Every day that we continue supplying weapons and munitions to Israel is another day that women are shredded by our bombs and children are murdered with our bullets. President Biden and Vice President Harris, we urge you: end this madness now!”
This is a Genocide for Land and Biden/Harris/Congress, etc., all need to charged with Crimes against Humanity. There should be by now Arrest Warrants going out for them, going to Heads of European Countries, going to the UK, going to MSM CEO's, anyone and everyone who has LIED about the slaughtering going on and supported, continues to support the Terrorist State of Israel. The ICC, ICJ, need to hold trials NOW, the evidence is in our face every day.
Shrub and Darth Cheney are still at large, charging six figures in speaking fees on a regular basis. In reality, every US president since Carter has been guilty of multiple crimes against humanity. Nothing's going to happen to Biden or Harris, the Rule of Law is only for the little people like you and I.
Nothing will happen, until it does. See the deaths of Hitler and Mussolini and Tojo. There were also some US domestic cases. We have gotten them before, and we can get them again.
Sure. but those guys were enemies of the US; not our dearest allies.
When Harris reveled in the words by Darth Cheney that he was supporting Harris, I knew right then the Democratic Party had sold its soul.
I figured that out back in the ’90s when Biden helped lead the charge to repeal Glass-Steagall and Clinton drove millions of children into the direst poverty rolling back welfare. Did you know that privatizing Social Security was originally a Clinton Administration goal? Fortunately a stained blue dress distracted Congress before they could get around to it.
Exactly. That's what struck me too. She should have been embarrassed that the Cheneys would endorse her.
Not to forget the journalist in MSM like Blitzer, Bash, Tapper, Mika and Joe, Maddow and others, earning millions for manipulating public opinion. They know omission equals lies, they know what they are doing.
Manufacturing consent.
Jared Kushner has his black heart set on developing the beaches in Gaza.
Healthcare workers, what do they know about selling weapons of mass destruction?
Where can I see this letter on any MSM outlet? …Oh. …Right. None of the MSM outlets would likely publish it. It's a shame that I can only find it at: https://www.gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-oct-2-2024 .
You would think if would be right up Anderson Cooper's alley. Before he went into broadcast journalism, he reported on war zones, saw the mutilated bodies that were the products of war. He quit when he realized that seeing the bodies no long elicited any feeling inside him. Has he spoken out against Israel?
If Assange waited to publish the "Collateral Damage" video clip until now, nobody would care to watch it and he might not have gone to jail.
Damn, when you really think about it, you couldn't be more correct. And that's only 20 years ago.
The sniping of children alone should qualify the IDF as the world's biggest terrorists. The purposeful killing of children proves it is a genocide.
Yes, but we must include those in the US who are complicit in the murders.
Dr. Perlmutter stated that he treated children that had been shot in the chest, then in the head by a sniper. He determined it had to be a sniper to fire off such accurate shots.
Where are the pro-life people on this?
"Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic and hand surgeon, was quoted in the letter saying, “Gaza was the first time I held a baby’s brains in my hand. The first of many.”
The healthcare workers said newborn babies were dying due to the conditions caused by the Israeli siege and attacks on hospitals. Asma Taha, a pediatric nurse practitioner, said, “Every day, I saw babies die. They had been born healthy. Their mothers were so malnourished that they could not breastfeed, and we lacked formula or clean water to feed them, so they starved.""
These two sections sadden, horrify, and enrage me. Beyond my ability to express.
I too am enraged. The Biden presidency is nothing but a trail of blood, death and destruction. It started early with Afghanistan there was the chaotic military retreat and the sanctions against the Afghan people, a low motion genocide our media did not report
"On August 15, 2021, Afghanistan was hit by more than just a simple humanitarian crisis, but a real catastrophe: in order to save face and punish the Taliban, the United States imposed comprehensive and severe economic sanctions on the entire country. It froze Afghanistan's $9.5 billion in cash reserves deposited in US banks. The United States went even further and forced the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other organizations to stop transferring funds previously earmarked for Afghanistan. In a country that had been 80 percent dependent on foreign aid for the past 20 years, funds stopped arriving overnight, while at the same time funds flowed out of the country and abroad. The worst, unpredictable form of collective punishment was imposed on the entire country. There was a massive exodus from the inferno. Whoever could left the country by any means, wherever they could. This flight is the worst wave of emigration in the past four decades. The social fabric of the country is torn apart.
We all know the facts and figures by now. The vast majority of Afghanistan are hungry, millions are malnourished, thousands are starving, millions of men, women and children are facing the harshest winter, millions are displaced. People are selling everything they have, including their children, just to get something to eat. Prices in the markets have skyrocketed. There are shortages of everything from aspirin to potatoes and petrol to clean drinking water. Forget healthy food, balanced meals, a minimum level of comfort or clean drinking water. There is hardly any work or money left. And it is cold. Since the beginning of January the country has been covered in a thick blanket of snow, making mobility difficult or impossible.,
The sanctions against Afghanistan are genocide in slow motion”
Rüdiger Göbel
January 12, 2022 at 9:00
An article by Rüdiger Göbel
He did the same when he refused to stop sanctions against Syria for only three days to help recover people buried
under the rubble.
Add the war in Ukraine and the annihilation of Ukraine because Biden has blocked all diplomatic settlements, yes there were more than one opportunity. Ukraine had the chance to be neutral and prosper like Austria. The conflict was avoidable. In Israel he claims he told the Israelis to kill less babies and that is it.
He showed his real colors, he is an evil man. But, like Jeffrey Dahmer, he looks normal, no one knew how evil he really is.
I voted for Biden. GFC!!! Talk about poor judgement.
I'm thinking you voted against Trump and held your nose when you voted for Biden. I don't know anyone who voted for Biden because they liked Biden. No One.
I did too, and deeply regret it. I learned to not vote for the lesser of two evil, I will vote for a better a person with character and common sense competence, non of the candidates meets that minimum. .
abhorrent
Ourtight deliberate killing of over 5% of an entire (captive) population is "genocide."
Those who help, even those who approve, are complicit in genocide and so equally guilty of a capital crime, defined as a crime for which the penalty under theUS Code includes death.
And yes, I do wish to start arrests, trials, and executions. It was done to Nazis, it was done to the atomic traitors (Rosenbergs), and it should be done again now.
Yes. the Hamas kidnappers and war criminals should be put on trial.
Think the IDF gunship pilots who massacred 400+ Israeli on 7.Oct should be tried ?
Or the tank commanders?
They are brave men and women who responded when their country needed them.
"Hezbollah is killing Israeli soldiers who are invading their country while Israeli soldiers are deliberately killing women and children and medical staff and journalists.
Guess which side the west calls terrorists.
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, “terrorist organization” is a completely arbitrary designation which is used as a tool of western narrative control to justify war and militarism. In effect it just means “disobedient population who need bombs dropped on them”.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/10/05/were-the-fucking-terrorists/
As explained by LowKey years ago:
It is good, and actually important that such letters are written, and the public needs to know. Unforetunately, such letters do not move psychopaths. Psychopahts can only by physically stopped.
Seyed Mohammad Marandi
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Unbelievable.
The Zionist regime has targeted and murdered 107 Lebanese medics since October 8.
Those working in legacy media know this, but they are obedient and silent.
Unfollow them. They are propaganda tools for genocide.
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The medic is a civilian and his targeting is a war crime, according to international law. Israel has killed 107 medics in Lebanon since October 8. http://x.com/CarmenJoukhada…
The Lancet estimated in July '24 that the death toll range will be as follows:
Low end: 112188 deaths, 4.7% of population
Middle: 411,571 deaths, 17.3% of population
High end: 710,955 deaths, 29.9% of population
Article: 'Counting the Dead in Gaza'