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Meanwhile - US surgeon claims Israel targets Gaza children: 'No child gets shot twice by mistake'

VIDEO - 11:14 Speaking to FRANCE 24's Tête-à-tête programme, US surgeon Mark Perlmutter claimed that Israeli snipers are targeting children in Gaza. © FRANCE 24

Issued on: 29/10/2024 - 15:49

In an interview with FRANCE 24, US surgeon Mark Perlmutter claimed that Israeli snipers are deliberately targeting children in Gaza. Perlmutter said that while he was volunteering at the European hospital of Khan Younis in southern Gaza earlier this year, he "saw two children that were shot twice". He added: "No child gets shot twice by mistake."

FRANCE 24 spoke to Mark Perlmutter, an American hand surgeon who volunteered at the European hospital of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, from late March through the first half of April 2024. The injured patients he saw were "civilians", Perlmutter said, adding that he did not see "one military combatant", either walking around alive or as a patient.

The doctor went on to claim that Israeli snipers are deliberately shooting children in Gaza, citing his observation of two children who were shot twice. "No child gets shot twice by mistake," he said.

"Metadata proves it was real," Perlmutter added, referencing a recent article published by The New York Times detailing the harrowing experiences of doctors in Gaza such as himself.

'We are complicit in this'

Despite repeatedly calling for a ceasefire, the US has continued its military assistance to Israel since the start of the war in Gaza, which began following the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023.

"The Western world is paying for the bombs that are burning children to death," Perlmutter said. "They're paying for the bullets that shredded those children. We are complicit in this." He called the situation in Gaza a "genocide".

In mid-October, the United States threatened to curb its military assistance to Israel if it doesn't produce a "dramatic increase" in humanitarian aid coming into the Gaza Strip, asking for action within 30 days.

By: Marc Perelman

Video by: FRANCE 24

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AU 0:02 / 27:53 American Surgeons Return from Gaza, Call for End of U.S. Culpability in Genocide
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We speak with two doctors who've just returned after two weeks at the European Hospital in Gaza. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa and Dr. Mark Perlmutter are co-authors of a new piece for Common Dreams titled "As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty Like Israel's Genocide in Gaza." They describe a hospital "hanging on by a thread," with the majority of patients being young children, and bombing targeted at Muslim Palestinians "concentrated at the time of evening prayer." "Genocide was the overwhelming impression that I got," says Perlmutter. "This is dehumanization. The purpose of this is to kill a population." He also says, of U.S. responsibility in this genocide, "We're buying the bullets and the gun for the gunman who's going to the school and killing the children." "If our support stops, the occupation stops," adds Sidhwa, urging other Americans to push political leaders and public discourse against the country's support of Israel. "We have to raise the domestic cost for these policies." Dr. Sidhwa and Dr. Perlmutter worked with the Palestinian American Medical Association in collaboration with the World Health Organization in Gaza. Collectively, they have previously volunteered medical assistance in the West Bank, Haiti and Ukraine, and after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Boston Marathon bombing.

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