‘Harrowing, Chilling, and Sobering.'”
CNN’s Clarissa describing her experience who became the first Western journalist to enter Gaza since Oct 7, without IDF.
“You get an absolute sense of the horrors that have been taking place in Gaza. This hospital was filled with the… pic.twitter.com/3C2Gj5Cdrx
— MonitorX (@MonitorX99800) December 14, 2023
A newly orphaned baby with a forehead wound. An 8-year-old in a full body cast. A 13-year-old missing a leg. @clarissaward was given a rare look inside a Gaza hospital.
Full report here: https://t.co/P4zEbJsDY6 pic.twitter.com/5RSGNRffKs
— CNN International PR (@cnnipr) December 14, 2023
nb4 “why is the Jew media covering this at all?”
They are hoisted on their own petard! They brought in all these liberals, who were against Israel, and they can’t totally control the entire media when the people they hired to control the media are against them.
The ADL got some people fired, early on, but the Jews have really backed themselves into a corner by preaching this ideology that is so in conflict with their own interests in their home country.
CNN:
20-month-old Amir Taha lies silently on the bed – his fluffy hair sticking up, his baby soft skin violated by a raw, jagged wound across his forehead. Purple bruises swell around one of his big brown eyes.
He’s an orphan now, his aunt says, with his parents and two of his siblings killed in an Israeli strike – one attack in the devastating war on Hamas in Gaza that Israel launched after militants carried out murderous cross-border raids targeting Israeli civilians on October 7.
Amir Taha
Amir’s loss adds to the overwhelming human toll in the tiny territory of Gaza where more than 18,000 people have been killed, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza.
But he does not know that yet, his aunt Nehaia Al-Qadra told CNN. He is too young to understand.
“They found Amir in his mom’s arms laying in the street,” Al-Qadra said. “His sister died, his brother died, his uncle, and his other sister is injured in the hospital… Here we are, he doesn’t have a mother or a father or an older sister or brother. Now it’s just us two and God.”
Amir wants his father. “Yesterday he saw a nurse that looked like his dad, and he kept screaming ‘Dad! Dad! Dad!’” Al-Qadra said. When she needs to calm him, she shows the toddler a video of his father.
Amir will recover from his physical wounds with the treatment he is now getting at a field hospital in Rafah, in southern Gaza, set up by the United Arab Emirates government.
With local hospitals overwhelmed by the sick and injured looking for help from facilities that have been damaged or destroyed, the UAE operation is a rare functioning, well-equipped, well-staffed place that can offer help to the most serious cases.
CNN was able to see their work on a brief visit this week, the first Western media outlet to get access into southern Gaza to report independently. Israel and Egypt have previously made it next to impossible for international journalists to witness firsthand the toll on civilians. Israel’s military have taken American media, including CNN, on brief escorted trips into northern Gaza.
In the streets strewn with trash and rubble from destroyed buildings, we see the horror of modern warfare. Despite the heavy bombardment, people wander around outside like zombies – perhaps trying to fathom their lives, perhaps with nothing else to do.
Most shops are closed, but there’s a long line outside a bakery. Recent rain has left stagnant water, and the December chill is setting in.
In another room in the field hospital, eight-year-old Jinan Sahar Mughari is immobilized in a full body cast. “They bombed the house in front of us and then our home,” she told CNN. “I was sitting next to my grandfather, and my grandfather held me, and my uncle was fine, so he was the one who took us out.”
Jinan’s skull and leg were broken in the bombing, explains her mother Hiba Mohammed Mughari, who was not at home at the time of the attack.
Jinan Sahar Mughari
The Israeli military says that since October 7, it has hit more than 22,000 targets in Gaza – an enclave just about 25 miles long and seven miles wide – far surpassing anything seen in modern warfare in terms of intensity and ferocity.
Almost all of Gaza’s more than 2 million residents have been forced from their homes, the World Health Organization says, as Israel targeted first the north and then the south of the territory in its operations to destroy Hamas and recover more than 100 hostages still believed to be held by militants.
Even as more nations called for a ceasefire, one young patient in the Emirati field hospital questioned bitterly whether anyone was really concerned enough.
Before the war, 20-year-old Lama Ali Hassan Alloush was studying engineering at university and preparing for her sister’s wedding. Her family heeded orders from the Israeli military to leave their home in the north and fled south. But the house where they were seeking shelter was hit by a strike. Now, she is in hospital, her right leg amputated.
“The world isn’t listening to us,” she said. “Nobody cares about us, we have been dying for over 60 days, dying from the bombing, and nobody did anything.”
No one did anything because those Jews are protected by the United States military.
What non-Jew is okay with any of this?
Lama Ali Hassan Alloush
I think it’s just Nikki Haley.
The world has failed Gaza. pic.twitter.com/LlV4FuRX0R
— Abdullah Omar🇵🇸 (@Abdullah_Om3r03) December 14, 2023
This beautiful baby woke up an orphan.
Nobody can pretend they don’t know Apartheid Israel is perpetrating a Genocide on Gaza.
All who support this do so because they believe in their own supremacy.
But the world knows the truth. We will never forget. #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/J6gx6aI6ZV
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) December 14, 2023