Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Gaza: ‘We’re wading in death, blood and amputees. Pass it on – shout it out’

Amid the tidal wave of human misery swamping Gaza City’s central hospital a horrified Norwegian volunteer doctor found a minute to type a text message on his mobile phone to friends back home. 

“We are wading in death, blood, and amputees. Many children. A pregnant woman. I have never experienced anything so terrible. Now we hear tanks. Pass it on, send it around, shout it out. Anything. DO SOMETHING! DO MORE! We are living in a history book now, all of us.” It was signed Mads Gilbert, one of two Norwegian doctors toiling relentlessly alongside exhausted Palestinian medics. More...

See also:

  1. Gaza: 535 Palestinians killed, 107 of them are children...
  2. UN leader: Gaza invasion a monstrosity...
  3. The reality in Gaza: a humanitarian disaster...

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