{"id":308005,"date":"2025-05-07T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=308005"},"modified":"2025-05-09T07:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:22:07","slug":"sniper-shots-to-groins-famine-shredded-children-gaza-icu-nurse-wally-massays-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=308005","title":{"rendered":"Sniper Shots to Groins, Famine, Shredded children\u2014Gaza ICU Nurse Wally Massay&#8217;s Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Mnar Adley \u2013 Mint Press News May 5, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>It\u2019s like nothing I have ever seen in my life,\u201d said American ICU nurse Wally Massay of his time in Gaza. Massay recently returned from a spell in the densely populated strip, where he was on the front lines of Israel\u2019s campaign against a civilian population. He worked at numerous health centers, including the Al-Aqsa, Nasser, and Indonesia hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Massay sat down with MintPress News Director, Mnar Adley, to describe life in a Gaza hospital. \u201cYou really do not have shifts,\u201d he said, explaining that:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cYou are working 24\/7. You are sleeping in the hospital, your room is just next to the emergency room, so 24\/7 you hear children crying, mothers crying. So, literally, you don\u2019t start working. You\u2019re 24\/7 in the emergency room or in the ICU [intensive care unit]. Every time there is an Israeli airstrike, you\u2019re in the emergency room. When there was a little calm in the emergency room, I would go to the ICU and work there. Your day never stops.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uh0QI3UUUuk?si=ByMkpSw422iVayo9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>Massay and other health professionals risked their lives every day to help the victims of the ongoing assault on an area that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated Israel intends to occupy and annex. According to the World Health Organization, IDF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emro.who.int\/images\/stories\/Sitrep_57.pdf?ua=1\">attacks<\/a> have destroyed or damaged 33 of Gaza\u2019s 36 hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, denounced the Israeli targeting of health centers, releasing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2024\/12\/pattern-israeli-attacks-gaza-hospitals-raises-grave-concerns-report\">statement<\/a> that read:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As if the relentless bombing and the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza were not enough, the one sanctuary where Palestinians should have felt safe in fact became a death trap. The protection of hospitals during warfare is paramount and must be respected by all sides, at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel has made a point of targeting doctors in Gaza, imprisoning and brutalizing them. Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, head of orthopedics at al-Shifa Hospital, was likely raped to death in an Israeli prison, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/11\/24\/dying-in-hell-palestinian-medics-jailed-by-israel\">numerous<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/2024\/11\/20\/dr-adnan-al-burshs-death-by-torture-underscores-brutal-targeting-of-palestinian-health-workers-by-israel\/\">credible<\/a> reports. At least 1150 health workers in Gaza have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/nearly-1000-palestinian-health-workers-killed-israeli-forces-gaza-named\">killed<\/a> since October 7, 2023, including 165 doctors, 260 nurses, 300 support personnel, and 76 pharmacists.<\/p>\n<p>During this exclusive interview, Massay told MintPress that Israel was carrying out a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing. The sorts of injuries he mainly dealt with were, in his own words, \u201cA lot of gunshot wounds, a lot of straight shots to the head, to the chest, or to the groin, especially for boys.\u201d \u201cTheir reproductive organs were completely dismantled and destroyed. So these boys, in 20 years, may never have children. It\u2019s ethnic cleansing at its worst,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The gunshot wounds were surprisingly uniform and extremely accurate, leaving no doubt in his mind that they were deliberate. \u201cYou can tell that this person meant exactly what they have done,\u201d he told Adley.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/longform\/2025\/3\/26\/gazas-stolen-childhood-the-thousands-of-children-israel-killed\">onslaught<\/a> has left at least 17,400 Gazan children dead \u2013 around 4% of the prewar child population. Another 3% are wounded, 5% require treatment for acute malnutrition, and one in twenty kids have been orphaned or separated from their parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the time, I feel I am dead inside. My heart is shredded. My heart is in pieces for the children of Gaza,\u201d Massay said.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the attack, both parties \u2013 Democrat and Republican \u2013 have offered their full support to the Israeli government. The U.S. has provided billions in military and economic aid to Israel, defended it at international institutions such as the United Nations, and passed laws cracking down on domestic opposition to the genocide.<\/p>\n<p>It has even gone so far as to launch a war against Ansar Allah forces in Yemen, who have blocked the Red Sea to Israeli shipping, in an attempt to force Tel Aviv to halt its operations in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>These facts weigh heavily on Massay\u2019s heart. \u201cLooking into the eyes of a Palestinian child,\u201d he said, \u201cit is a terrible feeling to know that my money and my taxes just killed you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss this poignant and exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Mnar Adley<\/em><\/strong><em> is an award-winning journalist and editor and is the founder and director of MintPress News. She is also president and director of the non-profit media organization Behind the Headlines. Adley also co-hosts the MintCast podcast and is a producer and host of the video series Behind The Headlines. Contact Mnar at mnar@mintpressnews.com or follow her on Twitter at @mnarmuh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/us-nurse-gaza-hospitals-interview\/289523\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou\u2019re 24\/7 in the emergency room or in the ICU [intensive care unit]. Every time there is an Israeli airstrike, you\u2019re in the emergency room. When there was a little calm in the emergency room, I would go to the ICU and work there. Your day never stops.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":289303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308006,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308005\/revisions\/308006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/289303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}