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An American surgeon who volunteered in Gaza told oCBS Sunday Morningo
in an interview that aired Sunday that Israeli snipers were purposely
shooting Palestinian children, including toddlers.
oI had children who were shot twice,o said Dr. Mark Perlmutter, who
said he was in Gaza at the end of April and the first couple weeks of
May. oI have two children that I have photographs of that were shot so perfectly in the chest I couldnAt put my stethoscope over their heart
more accurately and directly on the side of the head in the same
child.o
Perlmutter added, oNo toddler gets shot twice by mistake by athe
worldAs best snipers.A And theyAre dead-center shots.o Other foreign
doctors who volunteered in Gaza gave a similar account to The Guardian
back in April, saying Israeli snipers were shooting children in the
head.
Earlier this month, the Israeli outlet 972 Magazine published a report
citing Israeli soldiers that detailed how the Israeli Defense Forces
(IDF) in Gaza essentially had no restrictions on who they could shoot.
The report said the IDF oroutinely executeso civilians who enter areas
the military deemed ono-go zones,o and it detailed shootings where
young children were killed.
In his interview, Perlmutter, vice president of the International
College of Surgeons, said what he saw in Gaza was worse than all of
the disaster zones heAs seen combined. oForty mission trips, 30 years,
Ground Zero, earthquakes. All of that combined doesnAt equal the level
of carnage that I saw against civilians in just my first week in
Gaza,o he said.
When asked if the civilians he saw wounded or killed were mostly
children, Perlmutter said, oAlmost exclusively children. IAve never
seen that before. Never seen that. IAve seen more incinerated children
than IAve ever seen in my entire life combined. IAve seen more
shredded children in just the first week.o
Asked what he meant by oshreddedo children, Perlmutter explained,
oMissing body parts, being crushed by buildings, the greatest
majority, or bomb explosions, the next greatest majority. WeAve taken
shrapnel as big as my thumb out of eight-year-olds.o
According to GazaAs Health Ministry, nearly 16,000 children have been
killed by the Israeli assault on Gaza, and about 38,000 have been
wounded, which includes many amputees. Due to the Israeli siege,
childrenAs limbs have been amputated without anesthetics.
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