Palestinian boy clings to paramedic - story behind the viral photo

[Violet_Crumble]

A boy with cuts all over his body is using every ounce of his strength to cling on to a rubber-gloved medic trying to lay him on a hospital bed.

What the haunting photograph does not capture are the Palestinian boy’s screams at the paramedic: “I want my father, bring me my father!”

It also fails to show the gaping wound on the left side of his head, the large piece of shrapnel in his neck, and smaller pieces lodged in his chest and abdomen, sustained after being caught in artillery fire from Israel.

The story behind the photograph taken at Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital last Thursday – and disseminated across the world – was revealed by a junior doctor Belal Dabour in a piece for the pro-Palestinian masthead The Electronic Intifada.

“At around 3am, about eight or nine casualties arrived at the emergency room all at once. The last to come in were four siblings - two of them little children, both about three years old, with relatively superficial wounds,” he wrote.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/palestinian-boy-clings-to-paramedic--story-behind-the-viral-photo-20140721-zv5n1.html#ixzz385LsQ3Lc

There's also a really good infographic at the link that shows the deaths in the conflict by nationality since September 2000

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Violet_Crumble.

[delrem]

2. Not much to say. So, why did they, with such expertise, do it?

I say it has to have been a mistake of some sort.

Just like I think the same about Malaysian flight 17.

I can't think of any reason why any human being would do these things, yet they happen.

The people I condemn are the ones who egged them on.
The warmongering people among us, who sow their seeds.
It's those people - and yes, they are all over message boards and everywhere else that provides a platform - who are to blame.

[delrem]

4. Are you such a person. Is that why you mention it?

Because I can't imagine such a person.

The very suggestion is offensive, and not worthy.

[Skittles]

5. I am NOT such a person

I would not carry on hatred without end......the situation in Northern Ireland disgusted me also - the hatred NEVER ENDS

[delrem]

6. Good.

But why give such a view as you expressed any credence?

Either attribute it to a specific person, or delete it.

[Skittles]

7. I don't see where I am wrong

there's a certain segment of both sides WHO HATE EACH OTHER MORE THAN THEY CARE ABOUT CHILDREN

[delrem]

8. Oh. You, Skittles, claim this.

Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

I just don't agree with yours.

[Skittles]

9. you said it yourself - the warmongering segment

they care more about their hatred for each other than they do for the welfare of their children - they're all DISGUSTING

I'm SO fucking sick of (THAT SIDE) did this and (THAT SIDE) did that - look at that child in the picture - that is the result of their HATRED WITHOUT END - it is SICKENING

[azurnoir]

10. with all due respect

perhaps your initial comment resembles another one made by Golda Meir that being "Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us" it is an infamous quote and used to justify things such as this thread depicts

I don't think you meant that way but Meir's quote came to mind when I read your comment

[delrem]

12. I don't care what Skittles "had in mind".

I don't like what Skittles said.

I most especially don't like it that Skittles next tried to put those sentiments in my mouth.
I think it was all disgusting.

[azurnoir]

13. ummm okay then

[delrem]

14. I've met with Skittles before.

Whatever it's about, it isn't about taking me at my word.
It's about claiming that I wrote things that I didn't write.

I said no such thing as Skittles said, "you said it yourself".
That's a fucking lie, and I'm angry at that lie, because I've been hit too many times by the same kind of lie on DU, as of late.

I'm coming to hate the place, like I would a Freeper cesspit.

I totally resent Skittles for following me around, misrepresenting me.

That's all there is to it.

[delrem]

11. You're way off base. nt

[Recursion]

16. Skittles is quoting an Israeli Prime Minister from the 1970s

Skittles is making a point.

[Recursion]

15. It's a Golda Meier quote, IIRC (nt)

[delrem]

17. Skittles said: "you said it yourself "

Skittles never mentioned Golda Meier.

I certainly don't agree with Golda Meier, or with those who do.

eta: however some people want to twist it, I said what I said, and I didn't say anything even approximately like Skittles and, apparently, Golda Meier, said. Thank you very much.

[Recursion]

18. It's a pretty well-known quote among people who follow the I/P fiasco

It's kind of shorthand.

That said, Skittles has self-deleted, so I'll shut up now.

[delrem]

19. If someone didn't want to put words in my mouth, they wouldn't. OK?

They'd have some kind of care about what I actually did say, which you can find if you scroll up.