Israhell intentionally crippling Palestinians

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Palestine: MSF teams in Gaza observe unusually severe and devastating gunshot injuries
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Since 1 April, MSF teams in Gaza, Palestine, have provided post-operative care to more than 500 people injured by gunshots during the March of Return demonstrations. The number of patients treated in our clinics over the last three weeks is more than the number we treated throughout all of 2014, when Israel's military Operation Protective Edge was launched over the Gaza strip. MSF medical staff report receiving patients with devastating injuries of an unusual severity, which are extremely complex to treat. The injuries sustained by patients will leave most with serious, long-term physical disabilities.

Medical teams in Gaza's hospitals prepare to face a possible new influx of wounded this Friday in the latest of the March of Return demonstrations. MSF surgeons in Gaza report devastating gunshot wounds among hundreds of people injured during the protests over recent weeks. The huge majority of patients – mainly young men, but also some women and children – have unusually severe wounds to the lower extremities. MSF medical teams note the injuries include an extreme level of destruction to bones and soft tissue, and large exit wounds that can be the size of a fist.

"Half of the more than 500 patients we have admitted in our clinics have injuries where the bullet has literally destroyed tissue after having pulverized the bone", said Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, Head of Mission of MSF in Palestine. "These patients will need to have very complex surgical operations and most of them will have disabilities for life."

Managing these injuries is very difficult. Apart from regular nursing care, patients will often need additional surgery, and undergo a very long process of physiotherapy and rehabilitation. A lot of patients will keep functional deficiencies for the rest of their life. Some patients may yet need amputation if not provided with sufficient care in Gaza and if they don't manage to get the necessary authorisation to be treated outside of the strip.

To face this massive influx of patients, MSF has reinforced its capacities, increased the number of beds in its post-operative clinics, and recruited and trained additional medical staff. A fourth clinic will open soon in the Middle-Area region of Gaza to provide patients with the necessary specialised care.
In response to the crisis, MSF has also deployed a team of surgeons (including vascular, orthopaedic and reconstructive surgeons) and anaesthetists to operate – or re-operate – on the more severe cases. This team currently works side-by-side with Palestinian medical staff in Al-Shifa and Al-Aqsa public hospitals.

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'Wounds the size of a fist': Gaza protesters' gunshot injuries unusually severe, medics say
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The injuries sustained by Gaza protesters at the hands of Israeli troops during the ongoing Great March of Return are unusually severe, doctors say, adding they have seen nothing similar since the Israeli campaign of 2014.

"Half of the more than 500 patients we have admitted in our clinics have injuries where the bullet has literally destroyed tissue after having pulverized the bone," Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, head of mission of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Palestine, said in a report released last week.

The international medical group stressed that its doctors treated a number of patients with "devastating injuries of an unusual severity" who will have to undergo "complex surgical operations." The majority of the victims will have serious and long-term physical disabilities, according to the report. "Some patients may yet need amputation if not provided with sufficient care in Gaza," the statement added. The medics said that large exit wounds "can be the size of a fist."

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), a British charity that operates in the West Bank and Gaza, also expressed concern. "The bullets used are causing injuries local medics say they have not seen since 2014. The entrance wound is small. The exit wound is devastating, causing gross comminution of bone and destruction of soft tissue," the London-based group said, citing one of the surgeons in its report last week. Israel's 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza resulted in over 2,000 deaths.

These wounds may cause a range of diseases, including sepsis, gangrene, osteomyelitis and may finally lead to amputation. "Many of the wounded will be living with the consequences of these shocking injuries for the rest of their lives," Aimee Shalan, MAP's CEO, said.

Both medical organizations repeatedly used the word "destruction" to specify the extent of the damage the victims suffered from live fire at the protests.

The reports come amid protests that continue to take place at the Gaza border as part of the Great Return March. The rallies, which have been held since March 30, are slated to continue until the anniversary of the 1948 Palestinian exodus, also known as Nakba, on May 15, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled or simply fled their homes in the Arab-Israeli War.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) repeatedly deployed live fire and used rubber bullets and tear gas against demonstrators during this year's protests. A colleague of Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja, who was killed by Israeli fire at protests, recalled the moment Israeli forces opened fire at them. "Yasser and I ran to film when suddenly Yaser fell to the ground. I screamed to him, 'Yaser are you alright?' He didn't respond and there was blood on the ground underneath him. I knew it was a bad injury and people carried him away," Abu Amra told Reuters.

Mohammed Ayoub, 15, was another casualty of the Israeli crackdown. The teen was unarmed when he was fatally hit "with an explosive bullet in the head," a local cameraman, Abdul Hakim Abu Riyash, who captured the incident, told RT. He added that the teenager was nowhere near the frontline and was "far away from the Israeli fence – about 200-300 meters," he added.

"He asked to go play outside, when he left he told his aunt that he is going to the demonstration for one hour only, and as soon as he got there they targeted and executed him... it happened in less than an hour," the boy's mother said.

The latest data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revealed at least 37 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, including four children.  The number of those injured exceeded 4,900, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said.

Israeli actions provoked angry reactions from international rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, which repeatedly slammed the use of force against unarmed demonstrators.

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"I saw my leg, and my dreams vanished," Daly said, as he stared at the ceiling of a hospital room in Gaza City. A single bullet had caused devastating damage. "I said to myself: This wasn't a bullet. This was like a mini-grenade." 

17 Palestinians Lose Legs after Israeli Forces Unusual Bullets Blast Their Limbs
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Regime forces have shot dozens of Palestinians protesting along Gaza borders, many of whom have lost their lower limbs.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in besieged Gaza, at least 17 Palestinians have suffered gunshot wounds at the hands of Israeli forces that ultimately cost them their legs during the Great March of Return demonstrations along the border between Gaza and occupied Palestinian territories (Israeli Regime).

At least 45 Palestinians were killed and over 5,600 others injured by the Israeli occupation forces since the start of the Great March of Return peace protests on March 30 at besieged Gaza Strip.

Of the injured, 2,596 people were hospitalized in government hospitals, 773 in nongovernment hospitals and the rest were treated in the field. Of those in government hospitals, 1,499 were hit by live ammunition, 107 by sponge-tipped bullets, 408 suffered gas inhalation and 582 suffered other injuries. The list of injured Palestinians also included 592 children and 192 women and girls.

In many cases, Israeli regime rejected the transfer of wounded Gazans to the occupied West Bank, where they could receive medical care that might have saved their limbs.

Washington Post tells the story of three Palestinian youths who lost their legs after being struck by Israeli forces' bullets.

Mohammad al-Ajouri is a lanky teenager who loves to run, a medal-winning track star with ambitions to compete abroad.

But last month, while participating in Great March of Return rallies, he was struck by a bullet fired by an Israeli force. It penetrated his calf, shattering his leg before exiting the shin. Doctors tried to save the limb, but an infection soon spread. The leg had to be amputated.

Mohammad al-Ajouri, 17, stands on crutches April 18 outside his family home in the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Ajouris leg was struck by an Israeli soldiers bullet amid recent demonstrations along the Gaza border. (Wissam Nassar for The Washington Post)

The soft-spoken 17-year-old said he was injured at a March 30 protest after he had turned to leave. The bullet tore through his right leg, which was subsequently amputated above the knee.

He still smiles, his eyes crinkling, when he recalls the medals he'd won for the 400-meter dash. "I'm fast, and I love running," he said from his bed in a sparse room in Jabalya's refugee camp, as friends and family held vigil.

Alaa al-Daly, 21, was also an aspiring athlete who lost his leg at the hands of Tel Aviv regime's forces. As a cyclist, he was training for this year's Asian Games.

On March 30, he participated in a protest near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Daly said he had cycled to the border with friends, who had assured him that the demonstration would be peaceful. At one point, after gunfire had erupted, he rushed to help another wounded demonstrator. That, he said, was when the bullet ripped through his knee.

"I saw my leg, and my dreams vanished," Daly said, as he stared at the ceiling of a hospital room in Gaza City. A single bullet had caused devastating damage. "I said to myself: This wasn't a bullet. This was like a mini-grenade."

Alaa al-Daly, 21, was struck by an Israeli bullet on March 30. Doctors amputated his right leg after five operations.

Doctors performed multiple surgeries to repair his blood vessels and restore blood flow to the limb. After five operations, they amputated his right leg.

Youssef al-Kronz, 19, was shot in both legs at the March 30 protest. His left leg was amputated as he awaited Israeli regime's permission to travel for treatment in the occupied West Bank, and doctors warned he risked losing his remaining leg.

He says he wants to travel to Turkey or Germany to be fitted for a prosthetic leg. Although medical care in the West Bank is better than in Gaza, the cost of a prosthetic limb is beyond the means of his family, and he hopes a foreign country would provide him with one.

At the moment, however, the top worry is his right leg.

"Our main concern now is treating his remaining leg so that he can hold up the rest of his body," said his father, Iyad al-Kronz, clutching his son's medical records.

"We cannot afford an artificial limb on our own," he said. "He needs at least one leg to survive."

Amputees in Gaza have few rehabilitation options. There are no doctors who can perform surgery to modify amputees' stumps to accommodate artificial limbs, according to Physicians for Human Rights in Israel.

And at the Artificial Limbs and Polio Center in Gaza City, the only facility in the besieged Gaza that manufactures prostheses, technicians say they face crippling shortages of raw materials. An inadequate power supply also hampers production, leaving many who need limbs without them.

According to rights groups and health experts, the damage to Palestinian protesters' limbs has been unusually severe. Doctors Without Borders, based in Paris, has recorded "an extreme level of destruction to bones and soft tissue, and large exit wounds that can be the size of a fist."

Human Rights Watch says it is reviewing evidence that bullets fired by Israeli forces have caused "significant bodily injury," including "the shattering of bones. . . and severing of veins and arteries."

The United Nations, also says Tel Aviv is engaged in an "excessive use of force," and human rights groups point to cases where soldiers have fired at unarmed protesters or at those who didn't pose an immediate threat.

"The deployment of snipers, careful planning and significant number of injuries to the lower limbs does reflect an apparent policy to target [those] limbs," said Omar Shakir, Israel-Palestine director at Human Rights Watch in New York. But targeting protesters' legs "does not make the policy any less illegal," he said. "The use of live ammunition to any part of the body invariably causes serious injury and even death."

The Palestinian Great March of Return peaceful protests," will last until May 15, which coincides with the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day (Day of Catastrophe) on which Israel was created. 

Every year on May 15, Palestinians all over the world hold demonstrations to commemorate Nakba Day, which marks the anniversary of the forcible eviction of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland by Zionist in 1948.

More than 760,000 Palestinians - now estimated to number nearly five million with their descendants - were driven out of their homes on May 14, 1948.

Since 1948, when the fake Israeli entity was created, it has denied Palestinian refugees the right to return, despite UN resolutions and international law that upholds people's right to return to their homelands.

These year's Land Day demonstrations come at a time when Palestinian anger is already high over Trump's decision in December 2017 to recognize al-Quds (Jerusalem) as Israeli regime capital.