Gaza, 99 sanitari Usa scrivono a Biden

«Siamo 99 medici, chirurghi, infermieri specializzati, infermiere e ostetriche americani che hanno fatto volontariato nella Striscia di Gaza dal 7 ottobre 2023. In totale, abbiamo trascorso 254 settimane di volontariato negli ospedali e nelle cliniche di Gaza». Comincia così la lettera aperta indirizzata al presidente Usa che resterà in carica fino al 6 gennaio 2025.

epa11699133 Family members mourn next to the bodies of their loved ones at Nasser Hospital following an Israeli airstrike that claimed the lives of at least eight people in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, 03 November 2024. More than 43,000 Palestinians and over 1,400 Israelis have been killed, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), since Hamas militants launched an attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October 2023, and the Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank which followed it. EPA/HAITHAM IMAD ATTENTION EDITORS: GRAPHIC CONTENT

epa11699141 A Palestinian child, injured during an Israeli airstrike, is brought to Nasser Hospital following an attack that claimed the lives of at least eight people in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, 03 November 2024. More than 43,000 Palestinians and over 1,400 Israelis have been killed, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), since Hamas militants launched an attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October 2023, and the Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank which followed it. EPA/HAITHAM IMAD ATTENTION EDITORS: GRAPHIC CONTENT

epaselect epa11700530 A Palestinian boy holds an Israeli artillery shell found while sorting through the garbage at a landfill, amid a shortage of cooking gas and fuel, at the Khan Younis refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, 04 November 2024. A United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) assessment carried out across some IDP camps in Gaza in May 2024 pointed to 'makeshift dwellings being made of blankets, nylon, and foraged materials. With no electricity, and cooking gas and wood being too expensive, families were resorting to burning trash and plastic to cook. According to the UN, at least 1.9 million people across the Gaza Strip are internally displaced. Since October 2023, only about 11 percent of the Gaza Strip has not been placed under Israeli-issued evacuation orders, the UN aid coordination office OCHA said. EPA/HAITHAM IMAD

epa11700537 Palestinian children sort through garbage as they collect plastic from a landfill, amid a shortage of cooking gas and fuel, at the Khan Younis refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, 04 November 2024. A United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) assessment carried out across some IDP camps in Gaza in May 2024 pointed to 'makeshift dwellings being made of blankets, nylon, and foraged materials. With no electricity, and cooking gas and wood being too expensive, families were resorting to burning trash and plastic to cook.' According to the UN, at least 1.9 million people across the Gaza Strip are internally displaced. Since October 2023, only about 11 percent of the Gaza Strip has not been placed under Israeli-issued evacuation orders, the UN aid coordination office OCHA said. EPA/HAITHAM IMAD

epa11700504 A Palestinian child sorts through garbage while collecting plastic from a landfill, amid a shortage of cooking gas and fuel, at the Khan Younis refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, 04 November 2024. A United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) assessment carried out across some IDP camps in Gaza in May 2024 pointed to 'makeshift dwellings being made of blankets, nylon, and foraged materials. With no electricity, and cooking gas and wood being too expensive, families were resorting to burning trash and plastic to cook. According to the UN, at least 1.9 million people across the Gaza Strip are internally displaced. Since October 2023, only about 11 percent of the Gaza Strip has not been placed under Israeli-issued evacuation orders, the UN aid coordination office OCHA said. EPA/HAITHAM IMAD

Le vittime psto palestinesi nella Striscia di Gaza sono molti di più di quelli normalmente citati. Hanno sentito il dovere di denunciarlo 99 sanitari statunitensi che si sono recati sul posto per sostenere la popolazione sotto le bombe.

Qui il testo integrale pubblicato anche su il New York Times

Qui la versione in italiano curata dal sito Volere la Luna

«Il bilancio delle vittime a Gaza da ottobre è molto più alto di quanto si creda negli Stati Uniti. È probabile che il bilancio delle vittime di questo conflitto sia già superiore a 118.908, uno sbalorditivo 5,4% della popolazione di Gaza»

«Non riusciamo a capire – affermani i sanitari- perché continuate ad armare il Paese che sta deliberatamente uccidendo questi bambini in massa».

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