Adam Hamawy
Everything that happens in Gaza is deliberate. When you drop a bomb on a tent in the middle of a refugee camp, that’s a deliberate act, knowing that you’re going to kill mostly civilians. I’ve seen gunshot wounds to the face in children. If those were accidents, it wouldn’t happen every day. The fact that this is happening every day shows that this is a deliberate decision to target civilians. Most of the people I saw couldn’t be confused for a combatant. You can’t confuse a two-year-old for a combatant. You can’t confuse a family with four children, grandparents, and aunts with combatants. And not every single male in Gaza between the ages of fifteen and sixty is a combatant.
The excuse is always that these [hospitals] are hideouts for terrorists. None of the American medics witnessed anything like that.
In my three weeks at the European Hospital, I did not see a single weapon. Not one rifle. Not one pistol. Not one grenade launcher. This was a completely benign civilian hospital with no tunnels underneath it. I also visited Nasser Hospital and saw, again, a very standard hospital, completely destroyed, with holes on the outside from tank shells, blood on the walls and on the floors from what had happened when the Israelis were there. The excuse is always that these are hideouts for terrorists. There have been over fifty [medics] from the United States who have been there at different times in different places throughout the Gaza Strip. None of them witnessed anything like that.
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Auteur: Adam Hamawy
