The Guardian newspaper has revealed that Israeli ammunitions were designed to disperse high levels of shrapnel that can inflict more civilians with severe injuries, particularly children.
Citing foreign surgeons who worked in Gaza, the Guardian showed that the weapons, used in densely populated civilian areas, have included missiles and shells packed with additional metal fragments intended to maximize and deepen harm.
Foreign volunteer doctors at Gaza hospitals reported that a significant portion of their surgeries including children struck by tiny shrapnel pieces that cause extensive internal damage despite leaving nearly imperceptible entry wounds.
Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon from California working at a hospital in southern Gaza, described treating numerous young children with injuries from these small but devastating shrapnel pieces, revealing that “About half of the injuries I treated were young kids. The splinter injuries were minuscule—much smaller than anything I’ve encountered before—but they caused extensive internal damage.”
Amnesty International has criticized such weapons for their apparent intent to cause maximum casualties.
38345 Palestinains were killed since Gaza war and other 88295 people were injured.
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