Mohamed Harb

NEWS | Israeli forces killed more than 120 Palestinians and injured 474 across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning, hospital sources in Gaza reported 57 killed near and en route to GHF aid distribution sites—including the children seen in the video below. By afternoon, the death toll had risen to 77. Drop Site has not been able to confirm a death count beyond late afternoon due to a total internet and communications blackout.

NEW: Dr. @FerozeSidhwa to the UN Security Council: “My patients were six-year-olds with shrapnel in their heart and bullets in their brains. And pregnant women whose pelvises had been obliterated and their fetuses cut in two while still in the womb.” The U.S. emergency physician, who spent five weeks recently volunteering at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, told the Council that Israel is carrying out the deliberate destruction of the enclave’s healthcare system. “Mothers sheltering in the hospital cooked bread on hotplates in the emergency department during mass casualty events,” Sidhwa recalled, “as we dealt with the rain of fire and death falling around us everywhere.” “Participating in it or not, allowing it to happen is a choice,” he said. “This is a deliberate denial of conditions necessary for life: food, shelter, water, and medicine. Preventing genocide means refusing to normalize these atrocities.”