{"id":241840,"date":"2024-07-25T15:45:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=241840"},"modified":"2024-07-25T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:46:43","slug":"hard-proof-idf-snipers-are-targeting-palestinian-children-with-multiple-shots-to-head-and-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=241840","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">HARD PROOF!<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">IDF snipers are targeting Palestinian children with multiple shots to head and body.<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>US Doctors Stunned By Number Of Gaza Children With Headshot Wounds<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Israel the &#8220;most moral army in the world,&#8221; but a high volume of deeply troubling wounds seen by American surgeons volunteering in Gaza is casting doubt on that claim.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an American\u00a0surgeon with heavy catastrophe-zone experience, is among those stunned by the civilian devastation they&#8217;ve recently witnessed in Gaza,\u00a0<strong>and especially by a high volume of what appear to be precision rifle-fire wounds on children<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; including toddlers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/www.politico.jpeg?itok=Z2e64-ns\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"44aa9174-8717-48ee-a331-643b5d3fca7c\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><strong>Perlmutter (second from left) with the volunteer medical team that spent few weeks in Gaza\u00a0<\/strong>(Photo: Dr. Feroze Sidhwa via Politico)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;All of the disasters I&#8217;ve seen,\u00a0<em>combined<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 40 mission trips, 30 years, Ground Zero, earthquakes, all of that combined \u2013 doesn&#8217;t equal the level of carnage that I saw against civilians in just my first week in Gaza,&#8221;\u00a0Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic surgeon and vice president of the International College of Surgeons, told CBS&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/children-of-gaza\/\"><em>Sunday Morning<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What most struck him was his observation that\u00a0<strong>the overwhelming majority of the patients he and his team treated were children<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen that before.\u00a0<strong>I&#8217;ve seen more incinerated children than I&#8217;ve ever seen in my entire life, combined.<\/strong>\u00a0I&#8217;ve seen more shredded children in just the first week \u2026 missing body parts, being crushed by buildings, the greatest majority, or bomb explosions, the next greatest majority.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/07\/19\/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697\">Perlumutter, a Jew who grew up in New Jersey<\/a>\u00a0and who now lives in North Carolina, was also disturbed what what he attributed to precise rifle fire directed at children, some of whom were &#8220;shot twice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<strong>I have two children that I have photographs of that were shot so perfectly in the chest<\/strong>, I couldn&#8217;t put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately, and directly on the side of the head, in the same child.\u00a0<strong>No toddler gets shot twice by mistake<\/strong>\u00a0by the &#8216;world&#8217;s best sniper.&#8217; And\u00a0<strong>they&#8217;re dead-center shots.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His description of the phenomenon was confirmed to\u00a0<em>CBS News<\/em>\u00a0by more than 20 other doctors who&#8217;d recently visited Gaza. An American doctor had such a problem grasping what he was seeing that he double-checked using CT scans, saying\u00a0<strong>he &#8220;didn&#8217;t believe that this many children could be admitted to a single hospital with gunshot wounds to the head.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/child%20gsw.jpg?itok=n1nTZSWa\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"466\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"33b2d2fa-4645-4491-b5eb-daa58424e74b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><strong>An American doctor treated this 10-year-old who&#8217;d been shot in the head and received a craniectomy a month earlier\u00a0<\/strong>(Dr. Feroze Sidhwa via\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Virginia anesthesiologist said he saw an estimated\u00a0<strong>30 single gunshot wounds to children in just two weeks<\/strong>. A doctor based in gunfire-heavy Chicago described the horrific conclusion he reached as the pattern emerged on the treatment tables in front of him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I thought these kids were in the wrong place at the wrong time, like sadly, some of the kids we treat in Chicago. But\u00a0<strong>after the third or fourth time, I realized it was intentional; bullets were being put in these kids on purpose.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1815348253212246440&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fus-doctors-stunned-number-gaza-children-headshot-wounds&amp;sessionId=cfd9bfe61c445ffd2d4bfaa817663c78fe78c9d5&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1815348253212246440\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>An Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson assured\u00a0<em>CBS News\u00a0<\/em>that\u00a0<strong>&#8220;the IDF has never, and will never, deliberately target children,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>while cautioning that &#8220;remaining in an active combat zone has inherent risks.&#8221; When he addressed the US Congress on Wednesday, Netanyahu\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/were-protecting-you-full-text-of-netanyahus-address-to-congress\/\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;For Israel, every civilian death is a tragedy.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>For Hamas, it&#8217;s a strategy.<\/strong>\u00a0They actually want Palestinian civilians to die, so that Israel will be smeared in the international media and be pressured to end the war before it\u2019s won.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That claim isn&#8217;t consistent with what the American volunteer doctors observed. Writing at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/07\/19\/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a>, Perlmutter and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa said the stream of child-headshot patients almost invariably arrived with one of two explanations from their families: &#8220;[They said]\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>children were playing inside when they were shot by Israeli forces, or they were playing in the street when they were shot by Israeli forces<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>So whose claims should Congress trust more?\u00a0<\/strong>Dozens of<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>volunteer American humanitarian doctors, or a prime minister who&#8217;s already told them some of the most impactful lies they&#8217;ve ever bought?<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" 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