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Satire for Sanity
The world will not forget America's part in the Gaza genocide. The laughter will resound at every US attempt to paint itself as moral and fit to lead.
In October, a video from Gaza began to circulate that horrified the world. It showed an injured teenager lying on a hospital gurney with an intravenous drip in his arm. As flames engulf him, he can do nothing but wave his arms in agony.
The fire that swallowed Shaban al-Dalou in front of our eyes, and that also killed his mother and younger brother and sister, was set off by a bomb dropped by the Israeli army on the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, where he was being treated for injuries sustained when he survived another Israeli bombing.
The video of al-Dalou’s death – likened by many observers to atrocity-defining images like the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 photograph of nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc being burned by US napalm in Vietnam – is far from an isolated nightmare.
Various forms of brutal death have taken place thousands of times across Gaza over the past 15 months, often as a result of US weapons provided to Israel by the United States government. These deaths are neither simply individual tragedies nor unintended consequences; they are symptoms of an Israeli strategy of total war and overwhelming horror inflicted against an entire people. This reality, and how we must respond to it, is nowhere clearer than at the ruins of Gaza’s hospitals.
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In October, a video from Gaza began to circulate that horrified the world. It showed an injured teenager lying on a hospital gurney with an intravenous drip in his arm. As flames engulf him, he can do nothing but wave his arms in agony.
The fire that swallowed Shaban al-Dalou in front of our eyes, and that also killed his mother and younger brother and sister, was set off by a bomb dropped by the Israeli army on the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, where he was being treated for injuries sustained when he survived another Israeli bombing.
The video of al-Dalou’s death – likened by many observers to atrocity-defining images like the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 photograph of nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc being burned by US napalm in Vietnam – is far from an isolated nightmare.
Various forms of brutal death have taken place thousands of times across Gaza over the past 15 months, often as a result of US weapons provided to Israel by the United States government. These deaths are neither simply individual tragedies nor unintended consequences; they are symptoms of an Israeli strategy of total war and overwhelming horror inflicted against an entire people. This reality, and how we must respond to it, is nowhere clearer than at the ruins of Gaza’s hospitals.
After US weapons ravaged Gaza’s hospitals, US doctors can’t remain silent
Gaza’s health care facilities have been targeted repeatedly, including with US-made 2,000-pound bombs. We must speak up.
