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“A lot of the video that we're watching from the so-called food distribution centers where, you know, it's kind of like a perverted "Squid Games" where they're given a certain period of time to get the aid. And if there's any chaos, then, you know, they just start opening fire. And then we see it in our facility, you know, 20, 30 minutes later.”
Dr. Mark Brauner, Emergency medicine. Time in Gaza: June 2024

Amy Goodman: Once again, we’re reporting: since midnight, 41 Palestinians have been gunned down. Yesterday, on Monday, Israeli forces killed at least 71 Palestinians, including 50 people waiting to receive aid. Can you explain – you have been treating some of the people who were injured? What are their injuries? What is happening?

Dr. Mark Brauner: Thanks, Amy. You know, we’re seeing a very predictable pattern. Shortly after the so-called aid distribution centers open, we just get- we hear ambulances flying towards the hospital, private vehicles, donkey-drawn carts bringing in people, streams after streams of people. They often have isolated gunshot wounds to their head, to their neck, in the very center of their chest. There’s very high lethality, so a large percentage of the patients that come in are already dead. And then we kind of move quickly, transition quickly to the next patient. We’re seeing lots of children, adolescents, teenagers, we’re seeing some older people, but it’s really more execution style than the typical blast injuries that we see which tend to be more multi-systemic, you know, like head, neck, chest, and abdomen with shrapnel. And these are really isolated, targeted types of injuries that are much more consistent with the first hand reports that we’re getting. And a lot of the video that we’re watching from the so-called food distribution centers where, you know, it’s kind of like a perverted “Squid Games” where they’re given a certain period of time to get the aid. And if there’s any chaos, then, you know, they just start opening fire. And then we see it in our facility, you know, 20, 30 minutes later.

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