Israeli Use of Fragmentation Bombs Eviscerating Children's Bodies in Gaza, Say Doctors
Israeli Use of Fragmentation Bombs Eviscerating Children's Bodies in Gaza, Say Doctors "Restraining Israel in October rather than enabling its operations in Gaza," said one international policy expert, "could have avoided a lot of dead and mangled children." Doctors who have had to perform "a constant flow of amputations" on injured children in Gaza said Thursday that the injuries they have witnessed were consistent with the use of "fragmentation bombs" loaded with shrapnel—which Israel has used in the past and which rights groups have said are designed to cause maximum casualties. Volunteer doctors who have worked at European Hospital and al-Aqsa Hospital over the past three months told The Guardian that a majority of the patients they operated on were children who had wounds that were barely discernible—called "splinter injuries" by Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon from California—but caused catastrophic internal damag...