Horrific Hospital Scenes Of Casualties in Gaza

[DogPoundPup]

Press Release: United Nations

Gaza: UN Official Reports Horrific Hospital Scenes Of Casualties

New York, Jan 12 2009 3:10PM

Appalled that fighting was still continuing in Gaza despite the Security Council’s ceasefire resolution, senior United Nations officials said today they were horrified at the human costs amid reports that over 40 per cent of the nearly 900 Palestinians killed in the Israeli offensive, and almost half of the 3,860 wounded, were women and children.

“Behind those statistics that we read out every day is really profound human suffering and grave tragedy for all involved and not just for those who are killed and injured but for their families as well,” UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Director of Operations John Ging told a news conference in New York, speaking by video link from Gaza, where he had just visited the main Al Shifa hospital.

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“The hospital is really full of patients whose lives have been in many instances really destroyed, and they’re alive.”
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00255.htm

[scarletwoman]

1. The rest of the world needs to rein in Israel for its own good. A rogue state can only be tolerated

for so long.

[Idealism]

2. Amy Goodman reported last week that men were not being counted as civilians

I haven't been able to verify this by anything other than Democracy Now, have you?

[ShadesOfGrey]

3. You've gotta be kidding me! All the men are Hamas?

Even the old, the sick, the disabled, etc. Sheesh! If true, the civilian casualties are much higher than being reported.

[Idealism]

4. Here is the show transcript where she says it:

AMY GOODMAN: The UN says around a quarter of the dead are civilians, but that figure only counts women and children, excluding adult males. Today, we’ll look at one of those men. I’m joined by Fares Akram. He’s the Gaza correspondent for The Independent of London. His father was killed in an Israeli F-16 attack on Saturday. His wife is nine months pregnant.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/6/israel_f16_attack_kills_father_of