CNN: Doctors in Gaza report Patients 'Lying Everywhere'

[flpoljunkie]

A Palestinian father carries his wounded baby daughter into a hospital in Gaza City Sunday.

Doctor in Gaza: Patients 'lying everywhere'

* Doctor: 30 percent of casualties at main hospital on Sunday were children
* Doctor: Due to overflow of patients, "people were dying before they got treatment"
* At least 485 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in the military operation

GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Gaza's main hospital, already full of Palestinians wounded in the week-long Israeli air assault, reached critical mass on Sunday, according to a Norwegian doctor volunteering at Shifa Hospital.

"We've had a steady stream every day, but the last 24 hours has about triple the number of cases," Dr. Erik Fosse told CNN. "So this day has been extremely busy."

Fosse said he estimated that about 30 percent of the casualties at Shifa Hospital on Sunday were children, both among the dead and the wounded.

The increase in casualties at Shifa followed Israel's's ground incursion into Gaza, which it launched on Saturday night. Fosse said 50 patients were "severely wounded" when an Israeli airstrike hit a food market in Gaza City.

"We were operating in the corridors, patients were lying everywhere, and people were dying before they got treatment," he said.

Palestinian medical officials said Israeli forces have killed 37 Palestinians -- both civilians and militants -- since moving into the territory Saturday night. With those deaths, at least 485 Palestinians, including about 100 women and children, have been killed since the military operation began more than a week ago, officials said.

In addition, 2,600 Palestinians have been injured, most of them civilians, officials said.

Most of the casualties are a result of the airstrikes that preceded Saturday night's ground incursion. Shifa is the main hospital in Gaza City. Other hospitals were unable to treat the wounded because of a shortage of supplies and staff.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/04/gaza.humanitarian/index.html

[Scurrilous]

1. From AP:

"The guiding principle of Israel's ground invasion is to move in with full force and try to minimize Israeli casualties, Israeli military correspondent Alex Fishman wrote in the daily Yediot Ahronoth. "We'll pay the international price later for the collateral damage and the anticipated civilian casualties," Fishman said."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g-Z4g36GDCL2NfQo4wR3V-omzagAD95GBKNO0

[Warren Stupidity]

9. "anticipated civilian casualties"

said Fishman, casually admitting to a war crime. Then again, only the defeated are held accountable.

[babylonsister]

2. Cripes. I very much wonder how cnn int'l is covering this. Anyone

have access to that? I hope the truth is being reported...

[flpoljunkie]

5. Here is the link to CNN International

http://edition.cnn.com/

[babylonsister]

7. Thanks. nt

[AtomicKitten]

3. I'm ashamed the U.S. nixed a ceasefire.

[John Q. Citizen]

4. This is an atrocity. A war on civilians, State sponsored terrorism. India was nothing compared to

this. 3000 casualties and counting

[sandnsea]

6. If Palestinians were Christians

and Israelies were Muslims, this wouldn't be happening. Or at least, not with the same tacit approval that it's happening with right now.

[soothsayer]

8. eh, we backed the muslims against Christians in bosnia

[sandnsea]

12. We stepped in and stopped it

So it didn't explode into a full-scale war. Why won't we do that in Israel?

[Malikshah]

16. Really? When? After the camps? Get real

[Warren Stupidity]

10. There is a sizeable christian palestinian minority. nt

[usregimechange]

11. Wow Israel, a few more dead children and you will have peace.

:eyes:

[NYC_SKP]

14. Yep, this will fucking solve everything once and for all.

What The Fuck! :banghead:

[DCBob]

13. Sickening.

I am no fan of Hamas but but killing innocents is wrong.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. Terrorist doctors, terrorist patients, terrorist babies. Serves them all right.

Unfortunately, it's not necessarily obvious from the outset that this is. :sarcasm:

[Jennicut]

17. Israel has now succeeded in legitimizing Hamas and making muslims everywhere pissed at them

Nice going. I don't think Hamas firing rockets was good or right, it was horrible but killing innocents is not the way to do it, why do innocent Palestinian citizens mean less then Israeli ones do?

[reggie the dog]

18. ah, that's easy

they not Jewish. Therefore the Zionists can call them terrorists and kill them all. It is like the USA's old term called "manifest destiny" or the old handy "divine providence". I had a history professor at UIC actually explain to me that Gaza was not at all like the Warsaw ghetto because the Palestinians were terrorists. When I replied that they could not all be terrorists he said they were either terrorists or harboring terrorists so they were not unjustly deprived of their freedom, they were all guilty of something. When I sarcastically asked if Hitler was correct for creating the Warsaw ghetto because all Jews either posioned wells or harbored people who did I was called an anti semite. I got my worst grade in grad school in that course but I never ceded in my argument that Gaza is a ghetto. (The professor told us the world had seen nothing like the Warsaw ghetto since WWII.) From what I gather the Zionists and our Neo Cons have a lot in common.

[Jennicut]

19. I detest extremists on all sides. And all this fighting for a piece of land

I don't care if its the holiest of holy places. I am very religious, very Christian but God must be puking right now over this fight for land. As if one can't be plenty religious and holy anywhere. Land means nothing, it is what is in your heart and head and treating people like pieces of meat is disgusting. Your teacher was very, very wrong. The Jews were persecuted and tortured so they of all people should understand that this is wrong to hurt innocent people. I also have some Jewish in me on my mother's side so I am not some Jew-hater. It just makes me disgusted that they think this is they way to deal with extremists on the other side. The people in Gaza were starting to get fed up with Hamas, now Hamas will have tons of support. We did the same thing in Iraq, fueling Al Queda's numbers. Will we ever learn?

[reggie the dog]

20. Jewish people and Muslims, Palestinian Muslims at that

get along and work together despite the occupation, embargo, and war. There are symphonies made up of only Israelis and Palestinians. They can play together and enjoy it. Here in France it is not uncommon to have Jewish people and Muslims living in the same neighborhoods in peace as is the case in the USA. In Tel Aviv there are many Israelis who also want peace. If only they could create a federation with three states (Israel, Jerusalem, and Palestine) divided into counties such as Gaza, Golan Heights, the West Bank. 2 states, Palestine and Israel would each get their own institutions in their own languages while one state, Jerusalem, would be officially bilingual. A social system on par with that of Belgium (to continue the model of the federation)would allow for wage redistribution, equal access to equal quality health care and education, and give people a sense that they were all part of one big family. The country should be named neither Israel, nor Palestine. It could be named "The Sacred Land" as Jerusalem is so important for the big three world religions. Imagine the tourist money that could be made after a decade of peace and what that could do for the economy of the federation. I have talked at length about this with many people including the son of a Palestinian diplomat who is getting his PHD here in France and he, as well as many other people I have spoked to think that this is a wonderful idea and that a national identity of "the people of the sacred land" could even develop in a couple of generations. I am an atheist but also a history buff and would love to visit Jerusalem but I will not go spend money in Israel until their oppression of the Palestinians ends and until the violence on both sides ends.

[Jennicut]

21. I too love history and would love to visit there and agree it hsould be open to all 3 religions

Christians, Jews, and Muslims all have a stake there. Why one group should be treated as more important then another makes no sense.

[debbierlus]

22. Fuckers.

Decimating a civilian population.

It is always the innocent that suffer. I am so sick of our global military economy. I am so broken hearted. If my daughter wasn't thirteen, I would go and volunteer as an AID worker (I am a registered nurse). I am planning to commit the later half of my life to direct work and public speaking.