Israel-Gaza conflict

摘要

I write to join my fellow health professionals in expressing my support for the people of Gaza,1 and my outrage at Israel's attacks on Gaza's civilians in their homes, hospitals, and UN shelters. As health professionals, our voices matter, since our support for victims in such conflicts tends to be borne out of empathy and compassion for human suffering, rather than political interests. I am Palestinian, and I am equally appalled by civilian death and suffering on both sides. The reality of the present conflict is that it is the Palestinian civilians who overwhelmingly suffered death, injury, and displacement. As of Aug 6, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that the war had led to the deaths of 1354 Gazan civilians, including 415 children, and two Israeli civilians. They are trapped within closed borders with no safe havens, under intensifying bombardment by Israel from land, sea, and air.