Plain genocide
Erica Silverman, Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 - 16 August 2006, Issue No. 807
An-Najar Hospital in Rafah is a gruesome sight as staff — short on basic supplies like X-ray film and antibiotics — are trying to cope with an unprecedented number of amputees amongst the steady stream of victims of Israeli state terrorism. "Whole parts of the body are cut: legs, heads, even entire bodies cut in half," said Samir Judah, emergency room manager since the start of the second Intifada. "Israel is using a new kind of weaponry that burns the bodies, cuts like a knife. It enters the body and rips organs apart," continues Samir, holding large jagged pieces of burnt shrapnel removed from one victim's body. [More]
