Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care doctor at Doctors Without Borders who has just returned from Gaza, told CNN this Monday (1st) that the territory is facing a “massacre of human and civil life”.
Speaking to CNN from Amman, Jordan, Haj-Hassan said there were many killings of civilians young and old.
“We saw in the emergency department entire families being killed, mutilated, dismembered, burned,” she said.
Haj-Hassan recalled a story about a boy whose entire family had been killed. She said the boy's sister initially survived, but was so badly burned and mutilated that he was unable to recognize her.
“He kept calling his name, he himself had half his face ripped off and is undergoing reconstructive surgery as we speak,” she said. “She (the sister) died two days later.” Haj-Hassan went on to say that the war was documented in real time with social media videos and was “ashamed to be part of the society that is allowing this to happen.”
“This is a disappearance of our collective humanity,” said Haj-Hassan. “I hope anyone aware of this will hear these words and translate them into action,” he added.
Source: CNN Brasil
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