What’s happening to Palestinians in Gaza staggers the mind. CNN reported on January 7 that on average ten Palestinian children a day have had a limb or limbs amputated, ten a day since October 7.
Most Gaza hospitals have been forced to close and patients wander in hopes of reaching another hospital even though these facilities are immensely crowded with few supplies. Al-Shifa in Gaza City has “so many patients on the floor you could barely move without stepping on somebody’s hands or feet.”
The UN relief chief Martin Griffiths says that hundreds of thousands are now undergoing famine. “Famine” is the gravest category of mass hunger, just up from “catastrophic.”
On the West Bank there are constant military raids, some using drones. Since Oct. 7 over 360 Palestinians have been killed and over 4,000 injured. And 95 of those killed were children. Israeli…
