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Daily News Egypt
21-07-2025
- Health
- Daily News Egypt
Famine kills more Gaza children as Israel tightens siege amid global outrage
In Gaza, children are now dying not from bombs, but from empty stomachs. On the 654th day of Israel's war, starvation has become an accelerating killer across the besieged enclave, as border crossings remain sealed and humanitarian aid is blocked. The Gaza Health Ministry reported that 19 people—including four-year-old Razan Abu Zahir, who spent half her life under bombardment—died of hunger in the past 24 hours. Razan joins at least 70 children who have succumbed to starvation since the conflict began. Alongside famine, Israeli airstrikes killed 27 Palestinians and wounded others, according to hospital officials. For the first time since the war began, Israeli forces—including engineering and armoured units from the Golani Brigade—launched a ground incursion into southern Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. Army Radio reported the operation could last weeks. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) declared that starving civilians is a war crime that must never be used as a weapon. OCHA added that 88% of Gaza's territory is now under Israeli evacuation orders, affecting around 2.1 million people who have already been forcibly displaced multiple times. In apparent retaliation for OCHA's condemnation, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar refused to renew the visa of Jonathan Whittall, who heads OCHA's office in the occupied Palestinian territories, effectively expelling him. The siege has also crippled Gaza's health system. Hamas said Israeli forces abducted Dr. Marwan Al-Hams, director of field hospitals in Gaza, while he was visiting a Red Cross facility in Rafah. Soldiers reportedly fired on the ambulance carrying him, killing several civilians, including journalist Tamer Al-Za'anin. Hamas urged the international community, including the Red Cross and WHO, to condemn the attack and press for the release of detained medical staff. Meanwhile, Gaza Municipality warned of an imminent catastrophe after the shutdown of the city's main desalination plant and water pipelines, leaving large areas completely without water. The Gaza Health Ministry reported a total of 134 deaths (including four recovered bodies) and 1,155 injuries over the past 24 hours. Since 7 October 2023, the death toll has risen to 59,029, with 142,135 wounded. The blockade has drawn sharp criticism abroad. Belgium's King Philippe condemned the severe humanitarian violations in Gaza as 'a disgrace to humanity' and urged the UN Secretary-General to act immediately. Germany criticised the so-called 'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,' saying its aid mechanisms fail to reach civilians, and called on Israel to comply with international humanitarian law and allow aid agencies to operate freely. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the humanitarian situation as unbearable and renewed calls for an immediate ceasefire. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned that Gaza's people 'will not surrender' and said Israel will ultimately be undone by its own ambitions. Inside Israel, former Israeli army Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon broke ranks with the military establishment, warning that forced evacuations, demolitions, and starvation in Gaza amount to war crimes and violate Israel's moral values. 'These are breaches of everything we stand for,' he posted on X (formerly Twitter). The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) repeated its call to lift the blockade, revealing that food prices in Gaza have surged fortyfold. 'We have enough food outside Gaza to feed the entire population for over three months,' the agency said. 'Lift the siege and let the aid in—safely and at scale.' UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese compared Israel's deliberate starvation of two million civilians and killing of children to Nazi atrocities. Reflecting on the death of a disabled man from hunger, she wrote: 'Our generation was taught that Nazism was the ultimate evil—and it was. Today, a state is starving millions and shooting children for sport under the protection of democracies and dictatorships alike. This is the new abyss of brutality.' Meanwhile, Israeli Settlement Minister Orit Strook called for widening military operations even at the risk of Israeli hostages' lives. 'You can't win a war like this. We must fight a decisive battle, even if it endangers the captives,' she said in a radio interview. As the siege tightens, the humanitarian collapse is worsening. The UN warns that nearly all of Gaza is either under evacuation orders or Israeli military control, pushing millions into an ever-shrinking strip of land. UNRWA says children are 'withering before our eyes' from hunger and dehydration, while doctors can do little but watch them slip away.
Middle East Eye
21-07-2025
- Health
- Middle East Eye
Gaza is a mirror reflecting the world's absolute shame: Opinion
Razan Abu Zaher died starving. She was four years old. She died on the floor of a collapsing hospital, her tiny ribs rising and falling like wings too fragile to lift. Her body had no fat left to burn. Her eyes had sunken. Her voice - once a whisper of laughter - had long since vanished. She did not die quickly. She died slowly. She died watched by her mother, who begged her to hold on. Watched by a doctor who had no more syringes, no more saline, no more words, and by a world that tuned in - then turned away. Her death was not a tragedy. It was a sentence, written not in haste, but in policy. Razan is not alone. She is one of thousands. Between March and June - well into the total blockade - the UN agency for Palestine refugees, Unrwa, screened over 74,000 children in Gaza. More than 5,500 were diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition. Over 800 were already critical.
Middle East Eye
21-07-2025
- Health
- Middle East Eye
Gaza is a mirror reflecting the world's absolute shame
Razan Abu Zaher died starving. She was four years old. She died on the floor of a collapsing hospital, her tiny ribs rising and falling like wings too fragile to lift. Her body had no fat left to burn. Her eyes had sunken. Her voice - once a whisper of laughter - had long since vanished. She did not die quickly. She died slowly. She died watched by her mother, who begged her to hold on. Watched by a doctor who had no more syringes, no more saline, no more words, and by a world that tuned in - then turned away. New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch Sign up to get the latest insights and analysis on Israel-Palestine, alongside Turkey Unpacked and other MEE newsletters Her death was not a tragedy. It was a sentence, written not in haste, but in policy. Razan is not alone. She is one of thousands. Between March and June - well into the total blockade - the UN agency for Palestine refugees, Unrwa, screened over 74,000 children in Gaza. More than 5,500 were diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition. Over 800 were already critical. That was months after food was declared a threat. After flour became contraband and milk became memory, now children die in their parents' arms. Mothers hold babies who no longer cry. Fathers dig graves with their bare hands, whispering lullabies into the dust. Gaza has been besieged by hunger, death, Arab betrayal, and international treachery. Those who do not die by bombs are dying of starvation - or disease. And in the background: gunfire. Because even starvation is not safe in Gaza. Weaponised hunger This is not famine. This is weaponised hunger. The deliberate strangling of a people - not with rope, but with red tape. Not just with bombs, but with bureaucracy. War on Gaza: How Israel is replicating Nazi starvation tactics Read More » Israel bombs bakeries, shells aid convoys, flattens farms, and blocks food shipments with logistical sabotage. It starves Gaza with the same precision it uses to kill it. Yes, history has known starvation as a weapon, but what is happening in Gaza is unprecedented. Never in recent history has a civilian population been locked into a fenced strip of land - denied food, water, and fuel - while being bombed from air, land, and sea. This is not siege. It is the world's first televised extermination. A concentration camp under constant aerial assault. In Bosnia, starvation was used to break will. At the Omarska death camp, 700 of 6,000 inmates died of hunger and torture. In Srebrenica, food was deliberately denied. A Bosnian Serb soldier admitted: "We realised it wasn't really weapons being smuggled into Srebrenica that we should worry about, but food." Before Bosnia, the Nazi Hunger Plan sought to exterminate Jews and Soviet civilians. Seven million died - not as collateral, but by design. As sociologist Martin Shaw observes, Israel is following the pattern of the Nazi genocide, as described by Raphael Lemkin in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: "A daily fight literally for bread and physical survival,' which would 'handicap thinking in general and national terms." This is not just an assault on bodies. It is a war against consciousness. Starving journalists A starvation meant not only to kill, but to crush the capacity to think, to organise, to hope. Even the journalists are starving. Al Jazeera correspondents have aired their own hunger: "We bring you the news while we ourselves are hungry. We haven't found a morsel to eat since yesterday." A starvation meant not only to kill, but to crush the capacity to think, to organise, to hope When the observer becomes the victim, when hunger swallows the narrator, history has passed crisis - it has reached catastrophe. Still, Palestinians continue to queue for food - fully aware of the mortal risk. They walk into what have become Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) starvation killing traps, sites orchestrated by the Israeli military. They go for a sack of flour - and return as corpses. On Sunday, 115 Palestinians were shot dead while seeking aid. Ninety-two of them were trying to collect food. Nineteen were children. Since 27 May, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed, and nearly 5,000 wounded, at distribution points managed by GHF - where Israeli forces open fire on starving civilians. One father - emaciated, weeping, cradling the bloodied body of his son - was filmed after they were shot waiting for flour. He did not scream. He simply rocked the boy in his arms as gunfire crackled behind him, whispering his name - because it was all he had left. This is not humanitarian crisis. It is extermination through hunger. And still the world insists this is war. Who are the culprits? It is not war. It is annihilation - choreographed, prolonged, and permitted. Who are the culprits? Israel drops the bombs and seals the gates. The United States pays for the weapons and protects it with vetoes. And what of the Arab regimes? They stand closest. They speak of brotherhood and shared blood, but now they are wardens, jailers and enforcers But the noose - the tightening of life - is held by others too. Let us speak of Europe. So proud of its enlightenment. So swift to invoke "Never Again". So silent when the bodies are Palestinian. The European Union is Israel's largest trading partner. It signed a deal promising that human rights were a condition of trade. That promise is now a grave. Its own review found Israel in breach. And what did Europe do? Nothing. To mask its complicity, the EU claimed to have reached a humanitarian agreement with Israel. A supposed breakthrough. But it was no more than theatre. No aid flowed. No siege lifted. It was a smokescreen - a gesture meant only to blind the public, to buy time while children starved. As Amnesty International declared: "A cruel and unlawful betrayal of law, conscience, and Europe itself." This will be remembered - not as policy, but complicity. Not neutrality, but partnership in crime. And what of the Arab regimes? They stand closest. They speak of brotherhood and shared blood, but now they are wardens, jailers and enforcers. Palestinian children wait at a food distribution point in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on 23 June 2025 (AFP) Start with the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi - the general turned president, installed via an Israel-backed coup. He rules Egypt with tear gas and prisons. But most heinously, in Sinai, he has built a buffer zone to lock Gaza out. Rafah crossing is closed. Aid trucks rot under the sun. Doctors are denied entry. Children are dying - not for lack of help, but because help is blocked. International activists are detained, interrogated and deported. A flash of Palestinian keffiyeh is a crime. This is not security. It is servitude. How Egypt lost its regional power – and became complicit in Gaza's siege: One on One with Hossam el-Hamalawy Read More » And then there's Jordan - a kingdom that sells its heritage with one hand, jails its citizens with the other. It arrested teachers, students, tribal leaders - for waving flags, holding tents, organising aid. They say it's to combat the Muslim Brotherhood. It's really to crush Palestine. What Sisi does with checkpoints, Jordan does with courtrooms. Solidarity has become a crime. Submission, a virtue. This is the dictator's rulebook: obey the West, accommodate Israel. Then seal your people in - and do what you want. These are not bystanders. They are partners - in famine, in siege, in slaughter. World's unvarnished shame And through it all - the slow murder, the pantomime of diplomacy - we were told to wait. To trust in negotiations. But what kind of world makes the feeding of starving children a matter of debate? Gaza is not just a killing field. She is a mirror - and in her reflection, we see our absolute, unvarnished shame What kind of diplomacy turns bread into a bargaining chip? That is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was permitted to do - to turn food into leverage, to treat the relief of a besieged population as a prize to be bartered. It was not just immoral. It was illegal. It was obscene. Humanitarian access is not a favour to be granted. It is a duty bound by law. To delay it, to debate it, to withhold it for political gain is to turn hunger into a weapon - and diplomacy into an accomplice to war crimes. What is happening in Gaza does more than violate law - it obliterates it. It tears through every principle of humanity, every treaty that claims to uphold it. The world did not merely fail Gaza. It abandoned her. And in doing so, it exposed itself. Gaza is not just a killing field. She is a mirror - and in her reflection, we see our absolute, unvarnished shame. The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.
Saudi Gazette
21-07-2025
- Health
- Saudi Gazette
Four-year-old girl dies of hunger in Gaza as Israel throttles food supply
GAZA — Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday. She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone. At least 76 children in Gaza have died of malnutrition since the conflict began in October 2023, as well as ten adults, the Palestinian health ministry says. According to the World Health Organization, most of these occurred since Israeli authorities imposed a blockade at the beginning of March. Razan was one of at least four children to succumb in the last three days, the youngest just three months. Over the past 24 hours, 18 deaths have been recorded due to famine in Gaza, the health ministry says, reflecting a deepening crisis in the territory. CNN first met Razan a month ago. She was already weak with hunger and pitifully thin. Her mother, Tahrir Abu Daher, said then that she had no money to buy milk, which was in any case rarely available. 'Her health was very good before the war, but after the war, her condition began to deteriorate due to malnutrition. There is nothing to strengthen her.' That was on June 23. Razan had already been in hospital for 12 days. She clung on to life for another 27 days. Razan died amid growing starvation in Gaza, with the flow of humanitarian aid severely reduced since the beginning of March, when Israeli authorities banned convoys from entering Gaza. That ban was partially lifted at the end of May, but aid agencies say the amounts reaching the territory are too little to sustain the population. Israel said it was halting shipments of aid into Gaza because Hamas was stealing and profiting from it - an allegation Hamas denies. Israeli agencies also say the United Nations has not picked up aid ready to move into Gaza. The UN in turn has said that Israeli forces frequently deny permission to move aid within Gaza, and that much more is waiting to be allowed in. The Israeli agency that manages the flow of aid into the Gaza strip, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), said in a statement that the IDF is 'working to allow and facilitate the transfer' of humanitarian aid, including food. 'Since the beginning of the hostilities and up to this day, approximately 67,000 food trucks have entered the Gaza Strip, delivering around 1.5 million tons of food,' COGAT said. 'Israel will continue to facilitate the entry of food' into Gaza, COGAT said, 'while taking all possible measures to prevent the terrorist organization Hamas from seizing the aid.' Gaza was heavily dependent on aid and commercial shipments of food before the conflict began in October 2023, and shortages of food, medical supplies, fuel and other necessities have only worsened since. The scarcity of food since March has sent a rapidly growing number of people to already overwhelmed hospitals. 'Gaza is witnessing the worst phase of famine, which has reached catastrophic levels amid unprecedented international silence,' said Dr. Khalil Al-Daqran, the spokesman for al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital on Sunday, where Razan died. Al-Daqran said the infants who were now dying had been robbed of their childhood twice, 'once by bombing and killing, and again by depriving them of milk and a piece of bread.' The health ministry said Saturday that an 'unprecedented number of starving citizens of all ages are arriving at emergency departments in severe states of exhaustion and fatigue.' 'Hundreds whose bodies have been severely weakened are now at risk of imminent death due to hunger and their bodies' inability to endure any longer,' the ministry added. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights – an NGO working in Gaza - reported Sunday that one of its team in Gaza had said: 'Our faces have changed and our bodies have wasted away. We no longer recognize each other from extreme emaciation, as if we are slowly fading away and dying.' Dr. Suhaib Al-Hams, director of Kuwait field hospital in Khan Younis, told CNN that people arriving there were in 'dire need of food before medicine, as their bodies have reached a point beyond endurance and are all at risk of death.' 'Today, the World Central Kitchen stopped sending meals for the medical staff, they used to send us only rice. Doctors are working 24 hours a day with no food, neither at home nor at the hospital. People are dying of hunger,' Al-Hams said Sunday. World Central Kitchen confirmed its Gaza teams had run out of ingredients to cook warm meals. 'We served 80,000 meals yesterday [Saturday], emptying the last of our replenished stocks while aid trucks remain stuck at the border. 'This is the second time lack of access to aid has forced our kitchen operations to pause,' it added. In their desperation, thousands of people risk their lives every day to find something to eat. More than 70 people were reported to have been killed Sunday in Gaza as they desperately sought food aid, according to the health ministry, which said they had been shot by Israeli troops. The Israel Defense Forces said troops in the area 'fired warning shots in order to remove an immediate threat posed to them. The IDF is aware of the claim regarding casualties in the area, and the details of the incident are still being examined.' 'An initial review suggests that the number of casualties reported does not align with the information held by the IDF,' it added. Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of Al-Shifa Hospital where many of the casualties were taken, said that 'a significant number of civilians, and even medical staff, are arriving in a state of fainting or collapse due to severe malnutrition.' Nearly 800 Palestinians were killed while trying to access aid in Gaza between late May and July 7, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). During that period, OHCHR recorded the killings of 798 people, 615 of whom were killed near sites of the controversial US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). It added that 183 others were killed 'on the routes of aid convoys' without giving details on who had been running those convoys. Dozens more have been killed since, according to the health ministry, including more than 30 in southern Gaza on Saturday. Tom Fletcher, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, told the UN Security Council on Thursday that food was running out in Gaza. 'Those seeking it risk being shot. People are dying trying to feed their families.' He said that starvation rates among children had reached their highest levels in June, with more than 5,800 girls and boys diagnosed as acutely malnourished. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Friday it was receiving 'deeply troubling reports of malnourished children and adults being admitted to hospitals with little resources available to treat them properly.' On Saturday, Sarmad Tamimy, a plastic surgeon volunteering with Medical Aid for Palestinians, told CNN: 'Honestly, I feel the lucky ones get killed immediately because [of] the horrible horrors that they're going to face with their extensive injuries, with inadequate nutrition, inadequate medical supplies, infections, maggots, [and] hospital-acquired infections.' — CNN
Egypt Independent
21-07-2025
- Health
- Egypt Independent
Four-year-old girl dies of hunger in Gaza as Israel throttles food supply
CNN — Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday. She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone. At least 76 children in Gaza have died of malnutrition since the conflict began in October 2023, as well as ten adults, the Palestinian health ministry says. According to the World Health Organization, most of these occurred since Israeli authorities imposed a blockade at the beginning of March. Razan was one of at least four children to succumb in the last three days, the youngest just three months. Over the past 24 hours, 18 deaths have been recorded due to famine in Gaza, the health ministry says, reflecting a deepening crisis in the territory. CNN first met Razan a month ago. She was already weak with hunger and pitifully thin. Her mother, Tahrir Abu Daher, said then that she had no money to buy milk, which was in any case rarely available. 'Her health was very good before the war, but after the war, her condition began to deteriorate due to malnutrition. There is nothing to strengthen her.' Razan Abu Zaher pictured in hospital on June 23. CNN That was on June 23. Razan had already been in hospital for 12 days. She clung on to life for another 27 days. Razan died amid growing starvation in Gaza, with the flow of humanitarian aid severely reduced since the beginning of March, when Israeli authorities banned convoys from entering Gaza. That ban was partially lifted at the end of May, but aid agencies say the amounts reaching the territory far too little to sustain the population. Israel said it was halting shipments of aid into Gaza because Hamas was stealing and profiting from it – an allegation Hamas denies. Israeli agencies also say the United Nations has not picked up aid ready to move into Gaza. The UN in turn has said that Israeli forces frequently deny permission to move aid within Gaza, and that much more is waiting to be allowed in. The Israeli agency that manages the flow of aid into the Gaza strip, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), said in a statement that the IDF is 'working to allow and facilitate the transfer' of humanitarian aid, including food. 'Since the beginning of the hostilities and up to this day, approximately 67,000 food trucks have entered the Gaza Strip, delivering around 1.5 million tons of food,' COGAT said. 'Israel will continue to facilitate the entry of food' into Gaza, COGAT said, 'while taking all possible measures to prevent the terrorist organization Hamas from seizing the aid.' Gaza was heavily dependent on aid and commercial shipments of food before the conflict began in October 2023, and shortages of food, medical supplies, fuel and other necessities have only worsened since. The scarcity of food since March has sent a rapidly growing number of people to already overwhelmed hospitals. 'Gaza is witnessing the worst phase of famine, which has reached catastrophic levels amid unprecedented international silence,' said Dr. Khalil Al-Daqran, the spokesman for al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital on Sunday, where Razan died. Al-Daqran said the infants who were now dying had been robbed of their childhood twice, 'once by bombing and killing, and again by depriving them of milk and a piece of bread.' The health ministry said Saturday that an 'unprecedented number of starving citizens of all ages are arriving at emergency departments in severe states of exhaustion and fatigue.' 'Hundreds whose bodies have been severely weakened are now at risk of imminent death due to hunger and their bodies' inability to endure any longer,' the ministry added. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights – an NGO working in Gaza – reported Sunday that one of its team in Gaza had said: 'Our faces have changed and our bodies have wasted away. We no longer recognize each other from extreme emaciation, as if we are slowly fading away and dying.' Dr. Suhaib Al-Hams, director of Kuwait field hospital in Khan Younis, told CNN that people arriving there were in 'dire need of food before medicine, as their bodies have reached a point beyond endurance and are all at risk of death.' Palestinian children queue for a portion of hot food distributed by a charity kitchen at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 15. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images 'Today, the World Central Kitchen stopped sending meals for the medical staff, they used to send us only rice. Doctors are working 24 hours a day with no food, neither at home nor at the hospital. People are dying of hunger,' Al-Hams said Sunday. World Central Kitchen confirmed its Gaza teams had run out of ingredients to cook warm meals. 'We served 80,000 meals yesterday [Saturday], emptying the last of our replenished stocks while aid trucks remain stuck at the border. 'This is the second time lack of access to aid has forced our kitchen operations to pause,' it added. In their desperation, thousands of people risk their lives every day to find something to eat. More than 70 people were reported to have been killed Sunday in northern Gaza as they desperately sought food aid, according to the health ministry, which said they had been shot by Israeli troops. The Israel Defense Forces said troops in the area 'fired warning shots in order to remove an immediate threat posed to them. The IDF is aware of the claim regarding casualties in the area, and the details of the incident are still being examined.' 'An initial review suggests that the number of casualties reported does not align with the information held by the IDF,' it added. Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of Al-Shifa Hospital where many of the casualties were taken, said that 'a significant number of civilians, and even medical staff, are arriving in a state of fainting or collapse due to severe malnutrition.' Nearly 800 Palestinians were killed while trying to access aid in Gaza between late May and July 7, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). During that period, OHCHR recorded the killings of 798 people, 615 of whom were killed near sites of the controversial US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). It added that 183 others were killed 'on the routes of aid convoys' without giving details on who had been running those convoys. Palestinian rescuers arrive to evacuate injured people after an Israeli drone reportedly opened fire on civilian gatherings near an aid distribution point on June 1. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images Dozens more have been killed since, according to the health ministry, including more than 30 in southern Gaza on Saturday. Tom Fletcher, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, told the UN Security Council on Thursday that food was running out in Gaza. 'Those seeking it risk being shot. People are dying trying to feed their families.' He said that starvation rates among children had reached their highest levels in June, with more than 5,800 girls and boys diagnosed as acutely malnourished. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Friday it was receiving 'deeply troubling reports of malnourished children and adults being admitted to hospitals with little resources available to treat them properly.' On Saturday, Sarmad Tamimy, a plastic surgeon volunteering with Medical Aid for Palestinians, told CNN: 'Honestly, I feel the lucky ones get killed immediately because [of] the horrible horrors that they're going to face with their extensive injuries, with inadequate nutrition, inadequate medical supplies, infections, maggots, [and] hospital-acquired infections.'
