Warning: this is hard to read. From Irfan Galaria at latimes.com:
In late January, I left my home in Virginia, where I work as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon and joined a group of physicians and nurses traveling to Egypt with the humanitarian aid group MedGlobal to volunteer in Gaza.
I have worked in other war zones. But what I witnessed during the next 10 days in Gaza was not war — it was annihilation. At least 28,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. From Cairo, Egypt’s capital, we drove 12 hours east to the Rafah border. We passed miles of parked humanitarian aid trucks because they weren’t allowed into Gaza. Aside from my team and other envoy members from the United Nations and World Health Organization, there were very few others there.
Entering southern Gaza on Jan. 29, where many have fled from the north, felt like the first pages of a dystopian novel. Our ears were numb with the constant humming of what I was told were the surveillance drones that circled constantly. Our noses were consumed with the stench of 1 million displaced humans living in close proximity without adequate sanitation. Our eyes got lost in the sea of tents. We stayed at a guest house in Rafah. Our first night was cold, and many of us couldn’t sleep. We stood on the balcony listening to the bombs, and seeing the smoke rise from Khan Yunis.
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Does anyone care to ask or wonder why the Hamas leaders, whose people are enduring such misery, are still holding on to the remaining hostages? Is Mr. Sinwar absolved from any responsibility to the death and mayham he initiated on October 7? Or is the focus to be solely on Israel, without any responsibility whatsoever to be considered upon Hamas and the so called representative of the people of Gaza? What is their extent of responsibility and their justification, if any, for holding the remaining hostages and having hidden them among the million or millions of Gaza population?
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