Tomorrow is a Palestinian Day - Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta
Out of print
"Part of our resistance to the finality of genocide is for us to talk about tomorrow, plan for tomorrow, work on healing the wounds of our people. The aim of this war is that there would [be] no Palestinian tomorrow. We own tomorrow. Tomorrow is a Palestinian day." --Palestinian-British doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta, after working in Gaza
The medical workers of Gaza have been an inspiration. As those outside of Gaza watch families rush to hospitals after bombings with their loved ones in shreds in their arms, medical workers must greet those people and their horrifying injuries. Armed with little more than Tylenol and a cellphone flashlight, doctors tend to the worst imaginable injuries.
This genocide has popularized the term Wounded Child, No Surviving Family (WCNSF), as more than 17,000 Gazan children have had one or both parents killed by Israel. Thousands of children make up the largest ever new cohort of pediatric amputees. But it's not just the children grievously injured and bereft, though I have seen the brains of so many children. It is every person, loved or unknown bombed or shot to bits. It is the medics, but it is also the men digging through rubble with their bare fingers, the people shaking in tents, those walking miles for water, freedom fighters defending their homeland-- these sumud, steadfast people deserve our attention and action as much as children.
The medical workers of Gaza have been an inspiration. As those outside of Gaza watch families rush to hospitals after bombings with their loved ones in shreds in their arms, medical workers must greet those people and their horrifying injuries. Armed with little more than Tylenol and a cellphone flashlight, doctors tend to the worst imaginable injuries.
This genocide has popularized the term Wounded Child, No Surviving Family (WCNSF), as more than 17,000 Gazan children have had one or both parents killed by Israel. Thousands of children make up the largest ever new cohort of pediatric amputees. But it's not just the children grievously injured and bereft, though I have seen the brains of so many children. It is every person, loved or unknown bombed or shot to bits. It is the medics, but it is also the men digging through rubble with their bare fingers, the people shaking in tents, those walking miles for water, freedom fighters defending their homeland-- these sumud, steadfast people deserve our attention and action as much as children.
