WCNSF: 2023’s Latest Acronym Is A Traumatic Testament Of Gaza’s ‘Avalanche Of Human Suffering’
There’s a new acronym being used in Gaza’s hospital… and it’s a horrible show of just how bad the situation is.
“There’s an acronym in Gaza, W.C.N.S.F.: Wounded Child with No Surviving Family,” Jordan’s Queen Rania said in a remote interview with CNN. “That’s an acronym that should never exist, but it does exist in Gaza.”
Going on to say there have been nearly 10,000 deaths in Gaza – half of them children, the monarch went on to stress that “these are not just numbers”.
In the past couple of days, #WCNSF has been trending worldwide, with more heartbreaking testaments emerging from the war-torn territory as one particular interview with a tearful doctor from Jordan went viral.
“This is an avalanche of human suffering that’s 100% manmade,” Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatric intensive care doctor for Doctors Without Borders and a co-founder of the GazaMedicVoices social platform, said on BBC
News last week. “The worst humanitarian catastrophe I’ve experienced in my lifetime and in my growingly long career in humanitarian medicine.”
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“There are almost 1,000 families in the Gaza Strip who have had at least two members of their family, at least two members killed in the last three weeks,” Dr Haj-Hassan continued.
“There are almost 4,000 children who have been killed and identified, excluding almost 1,000 children whose bodies are still trapped under the rubble. Some of them may be alive for a long period before they ultimately die under the rubble.”
“I’m not a politician, but a ‘pause’ to me makes no sense,” she said finished. “You pause to nourish and hydrate a population before you kill them? It just doesn’t make any sense for me. You stop the bombardment.”
What do you make of this latest heartbreaking development from Gaza?
Cover Image Photos by Motaz Azaiza
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