{"id":298560,"date":"2024-11-14T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=298560"},"modified":"2024-11-16T06:56:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T06:56:47","slug":"israeli-forces-used-drones-to-deliberately-and-persistently-target-injured-palestinians-including-children-uk-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=298560","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Forces Used Drones to &#8216;Deliberately and Persistently&#8217; Target Injured Palestinians, Including Children: UK Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Taylor Odisho \u2013 msm.com Nov 12, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A top UK surgeon broke down while recounting his experience at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latintimes.com\/topics\/gaza\">Gaza&#8217;s<\/a> Nasser Hospital during an evidence session on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latintimes.com\/israel-intentionally-destroyed-gazas-healthcare-system-tortured-killed-medical-professionals-un-564075\">healthcare situation<\/a> in what was once the largest city in the State of Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I think I found particularly disturbing was that a bomb would drop, maybe on a crowded, tented area, and then the drones would come down,&#8221; Professor Nizam Mamode told the UK Parliament during the International Development Committee&#8217;s session before he was overcome with emotion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Charles_Lister\/status\/1856370874644893838\">In the clip<\/a>, Committee Chair Sarah Champion then stepped in to thank the former surgeon for attending the session to help hold legislators accountable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can only imagine just how it has impacted you and it will continue to impact you, I feel, because you can&#8217;t unsee what you&#8217;ve seen but being able to share that with us really helps us hold legislators, particularly, to account,&#8221; Champion added before Mamode continued.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just now &#8212; acclaimed British surgeon testifies to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UK<\/a> Parliament, detailing how <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IDF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IDF<\/a> &#8220;quadcopters&#8221; would arrive at the scene of airstrikes in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gaza<\/a> &amp; &#8220;pick-off&#8221; \/ &#8220;shoot&#8221; the injured, including children. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/onpyNnpjhp\">pic.twitter.com\/onpyNnpjhp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Charles_Lister\/status\/1856370874644893838?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The drones would come down and pick off civilians, children, and we had description after description,&#8221; Mamode said. &#8220;This is not an occasional thing; this was day after day after day, operating on children who would say, &#8216;I was lying on the ground after a bomb had dropped and this quadcopter came down and hovered over me and shot me.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mamode added that this type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latintimes.com\/gaza-killed-men-women-idf-children-majority-israel-palestine-united-nations-report-565289\">targeting, mostly of women and children<\/a>, was &#8220;clearly a deliberate act and it was a persistent act&#8221; in which Israel Defense Forces consistently injured and killed civilians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had one or two mass casualty incidents every day,&#8221; Mamode added.<\/p>\n<p>He told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/news\/uk\/2024\/11\/12\/british-doctor-warns-gaza-aid-restrictions-amount-to-bogus-excuses\/\">The National<\/a> that meant at least 10 to 20 people were killed and up to 40 injured every day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this isn&#8217;t a genocide, then I don&#8217;t know what is,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mamode has volunteered as a doctor during other conflicts, including the Rwandan genocide in 1994, but said Gaza was unlike any other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s astonishing,&#8221; he told The National. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never come across a conflict zone where there is deliberate restrictions on medical supplies and medical aid for healthcare workers trying to deal with civilian casualties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following the evidence session, <a href=\"https:\/\/committees.parliament.uk\/committee\/98\/international-development-committee\/news\/203748\/idc-chair-responds-to-shocking-evidence-on-gaza-healthcare\/\">Champion released a comment<\/a>, writing, &#8220;If leaders are not yet listening, they should be by now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Professor Mamode told us that he has worked in a number of dangerous conflict zones, including the Rwandan genocide. Yet still he had never seen anything on the scale of what he saw in Gaza. This view was no outlier; it was also that of his experienced colleagues, one of whom had traveled to Ukraine several times,&#8221; she shared.<\/p>\n<p>She added he also &#8220;saw children with sniper injuries to the head, children shot by drones \u2013 evidence, he said, of targeting by the Israeli military.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/israeli-forces-used-drones-to-deliberately-and-persistently-target-injured-palestinians-including-children-uk-doctors\/ar-AA1tY4Jo\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British surgeon who worked in Gaza confirms that Israeli drones would often appear in the wake of air strikes. When that happened they would \u201cpick-off\u201d (kill) survivors, including women and children. 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