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‘Not a war, an annihilation’

As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Mourners carry the body of a Palestinian for burial after they were killed by an Israeli military air strike that hit a UN school, in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, May 12, 2025

MORE than half a dozen doctors, all of who have worked in Gaza and two of who are there now, spoke in heart-rending detail at a press conference on Thursday May 1 about Israel’s barbaric bombing and starvation of the Palestinian population, especially children, and the challenges they face to save them.

The speakers were affiliated with Doctors Against Genocide, described by one of the group’s founders, Detroit physician Nidal Jboor, as “a global coalition of healthcare professionals watching a genocide unfolding in real time.”

They are doing far more than watching, however, but their desperate efforts to save patients under almost impossible conditions have left all of them with a sense of desperation and urgency that the world is failing to act against something that could so easily be stopped.

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