I have never seen such devastation as in Gaza

Adam Hamawy

Everything that happens in Gaza is deliberate. When you drop a bomb on a tent in the middle of a refugee camp, it is a deliberate act, knowing that you will kill mostly civilians. I’ve seen gunshot wounds to the face in children. If these were accidents, they wouldn’t happen every day. The fact that this happens every day shows that this is a deliberate decision to target civilians. Most of the people I saw could not be mistaken for a combatant. You can’t mistake a two-year-old for a fighter. You cannot confuse a family with four children, grandparents and aunts with combatants. And not all Gazan men between the ages of fifteen and sixty are combatants.

During the three weeks I spent at the European Hospital, I saw no weapons. Not even a rifle. No gun. No grenade launcher. This was a completely benign civilian hospital with no tunnels underneath. I also visited the Nasser hospital and saw, again, a very standard hospital, completely destroyed, with holes on the outside from tank shells, blood on the walls and floors from what had happened when the Israelis were there. The excuse is always that they are hideouts for terrorists. There were over fifty (doctors) from the United States who were there at different times in different places in the Gaza Strip. None of them witnessed such a thing.