“Vulnerable newborns and sick and wounded children in need of intensive care are being killed in tents, in incubators and in the arms of their parents.”
— United Nations Children’s Fund statement on the war in Gaza
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is expected to serve as Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, believes that “Hamas is 100 percent to blame” for the death of babies in the Gaza Strip.
Rubio claims that the terror group is building military infrastructure under hospitals.
However, an open letter sent to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, from 99 U.S. healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza, states that none of these medical professionals have seen any evidence of Palestinian militant activity in Gazan hospitals.
Moreover, a recent article in the British medical journal, The Lancet, is titled, “Will there be a future for newborns in Gaza?” The article contends that Israel’s targeting of maternity hospitals and its blockade of medical supplies like anesthetics and maternity kits have led to life-threatening conditions for thousands of pregnant women.
If Hamas was hiding in Israel, would the Israeli Defense Force still use 2000-pound bombs supplied by the United States to destroy it?
Can we not condemn both the atrocities of Hamas and of Israel?
Does there remain any sense of empathy or of mercy?
In his address to the UN General Assembly, Dr. Amery Browne, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Trinidad and Tobago, asserted: “There are some powerful people in this world who are of the view that a Palestinian child is less worthy of defense, protection, food, water and life than another child.”
Terry Hansen
Milwaukee, WI