Genocidal Israel is preventing more than 1,100 child amputees from receiving treatment outside Gaza, according to human rights group Euro-Med Monitor (EMM). Most of the children suffered amputations without anaesthetic – and the wrecked Gaza health system is unable to provide the rehabilitation or prosthetic limbs they need. Gaza now has the largest group of child amputees in modern history, after three years of Israel’s genocide.
Monstrous occupation
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 2,300 people – 1,134 of them children – have lost one or more limbs as a result of Israeli bombing, but barely a fifth have received even basic assistance. Prosthetics, crutches and wheelchairs are among the more than 800 items the monstrous Israeli occupation has banned from entering Gaza, along with other essentials like nappies and cancer medication.
And Israel’s mass slaughter of civilians – often specifically hunting medical professionals – means that there is hardly anyone left to measure for and fit prosthetics even if they were allowed in, according to Geneva-based EMM:
Only eight certified prosthetics and orthotics professionals are currently available in Gaza.
Continued denial of treatment, rehabilitation, and appropriate education risks turning the harm these children face now into lifelong deprivation. Gaps in medical follow-up and failure to adjust prosthetic limbs as the children grow may cause further complications, chronic pain, and increased difficulty moving.
…deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, in whole or in part, are acts listed in Article 2 of the Genocide Convention. The amputation of children’s limbs and the obstruction of their treatment and rehabilitation form part of this pattern.
The Genocide Convention lists five genocidal acts. Committing any one of them confirms the crime of genocide. Israel meets at least four in its war on Palestinian civilians.
Zionism is racism. Israel is a terror state.
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