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Everything that happens in Gaza is deliberate. When you drop a bomb on a tent in the middle of a refugee camp, that’s a deliberate act, knowing that you’re going to kill mostly civilians. I’ve seen gunshot wounds to the face in children. If those were accidents, it wouldn’t happen every day. The fact that this is happening every day shows that this is a deliberate decision to target civilians. Most of the people I saw couldn’t be confused for a combatant. You can’t confuse a two-year-old for a combatant. You can’t confuse a family with four children, grandparents, and aunts with combatants. And not every single male in Gaza between the ages of fifteen and sixty is a combatant. In my three weeks at the European Hospital, I did not see a single weapon. Not one rifle. Not one pistol. Not one grenade launcher. This was a completely benign civilian hospital with no tunnels underneath it.
Summary: Dr. Adam Hamawy Interview on Gaza
Dr. Adam Hamawy, a plastic surgeon and veteran of multiple war zones, volunteered at Gaza’s European Hospital in May 2024. During his three-week stay, he treated primarily blast and gunshot injuries, with approximately 60% of his patients being children under 14. Unlike other conflicts he’s experienced, Hamawy emphasizes that Gaza’s casualties are predominantly civilians, not combatants.
He describes the violence as deliberate, citing daily gunshot wounds to children’s faces and bombs dropped on refugee tents. The hospital faced severe shortages of basic supplies like soap, bedsheets, and medications, forcing staff to reuse disposable medical equipment. Hamawy notes that medical supplies have been blocked from entering Gaza, with pallets sitting at the border for months. He witnessed no weapons or tunnels at the European Hospital, contradicting Israeli claims about hospitals harboring terrorists.
He calls Gaza’s situation unprecedented in its scale of civilian suffering and criticizes continued international weapons supply to Israel, advocating for sanctions and enforcement of international law