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Dr. Perlmutter: All of the disasters I have seen combined – 40 mission trips, Ground Zero, earthquakes -- all of that combined doesn’t equal the level of carnage that I saw against civilians in just my first week in Gaza.
Tracy Smith: And when you say civilians is it mostly children?
Almost exclusively children. I’ve never seen that before. I’ve seen more incinerated children that I’ve ever seen in my entire life, combined. I’ve seen more shredded children in just the first week.
Tracy Smith: Shredded?
Shredded.
Tracy Smith: What do you mean?
Missing, shredded body parts, being crushed by buildings, the greatest majority. Or bomb explosions, the next greatest majority. I’ve taken shrapnel as big as my thumb out of eight year olds, and then there were sniper bullets. I had children that were shot twice.
Tracy Smith: You’re saying that children in Gaza are being shot by snipers?
Definitively. I have two children that I have photographs of that were shot so perfectly in the chest, that I couldn’t put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately and directly on the side of the head -- in the same child. No toddler get shot twice by mistake by "the world’s best sniper." And they are dead center shots.
Afterward remarks by Ms. Smith:
In fact, more than twenty doctors recently in Gaza also told Sunday Morning about gunshot wounds to children. One American doctor told us he even reviewed CT scans to confirm what he saw because he "didn't believe that this many children could be admitted to a single hospital with gunshot wounds to the head."
(Smith, Tracy. July 21, 2024. "Children of Gaza". CBS News.)
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-- Mark Perlmutter is an orthopedic surgeon in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Perlmutter is a past president of the International College of Surgeons and current president of the World Surgical Foundation. He has gone on medical missions in the U.S., South and Central America and the Caribbean islands during his 36 years as a doctor, but nowhere like Gaza. That mission was sponsored by the Palestinian American Medical Association in collaboration with the World Health Organization.
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