In October, a video from Gaza began to circulate this horror world. He showed an injured teenager lying on an intravenous drip hospital in his arm. While he is overwhelmed by fire, he can do nothing but waving his arms in torment.

The fire swallowed Two young Dalo In front of our eyes, which also killed his mother, his younger brother and sister, he set out from a bomb that the Israeli army brought down in the courtyard of martyrs in Deir Pala, where he was treating the injuries he sustained when he survived another Israeli bombing.

The video clip of the Dalo-which resembles many observers in the pictures that determine the atrocities such as Van Politzer’s Plearzer’s image in 1972 by Fard Kim Kim Fall, who was burned by Nabalm in Vietnam, nine years old.

Various forms of brutal death occurred thousands of times throughout Gaza over the past 15 months, and often as a result of the American weapons provided by the United States government to Israel. These deaths are not simply individual tragedies or unintended consequences; They are symptoms of an Israeli strategy of full war and overwhelming terror that an entire people suffered. This reality, and how we should respond to it, is not more clear than the ruins of Gaza hospitals.

MK-84 Gaza bombs and hospitals

Review of the last peers TicketFrom us one of us is a co-author, patterns of Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip were examined during the first 40 days after October 7, 2023. specifically analyzes the Israeli use of the US MK-84S MK-84S bombs, which is under international law and necessities Basic moral, special protection is provided against war works.

MK-84S is the 2000-pound explosives (900 kg)-known as “Bunker Busters”-designed to destroy infrastructure and kill people hundreds of meters away from the place where they land. They are weapons of indiscriminate destruction and genocide, not “targeted strikes” against separate targets.

Using spatial geographical data, the study found that Israel dropped MK -84s within the scope of the explosion, which is more than 80 percent of hospitals in Gaza in the first 40 days of its war, including one bomb dropped 14.7 meters (48 feet) from the hospital – effectively Direct blow.

Many hospitals had not only had one, but the doubling of these huge bombs fell around. Hospitals had more than 20 MK-84 bombs dug 800 meters (the upper end of the MK-84 infrastructure damage and a serious injury explosion) for their facilities; Another hospital had seven dug a bomb 360 meters (MK-84 domain) from patient wings. Thirty-eight MK-84s was detonated within the scope of hospitals inside the evacuation areas of knowledge by Israel.

During this preliminary period of Israel’s sharp destruction in Gaza, the international controversy of weeks was intensified due to the claim that Israel had bombed one hospital. The Israeli government and the media with their counterparts in the United States and Europe have repeatedly denied that Israel would attack hospitals-a violation of firm humanitarian law. together, Empowering Israeli violence This, who included senior American doctors and biological ethics, began spreading the supposed justifications for any possible measure.

By December 2024, more than 1,000 Palestinian health workers were killed due to Israeli attacks and unambiguous evidence showing that almost all hospitals in Gaza have been targeted, repeated and repeated by the Israeli armed Israeli army with American weapons. What has been said once reflects an impressive accusation and anatromistic drinks, is now considered one of the main elements of the daily Israeli military behavior.

In May, in an implicit recognition of this reality, eight months after watching Israel uses thousands of bombs provided by the United States to destroy the densely populated areas in Gaza and kill countless civilians, the Biden administration placed a shipment from MK-84 to Israel, sending bombs 500 pounds (227 kg) instead. Last week, the Trump administration announced that it was resuming MK-84S shipping to Israel without any conditions.

New Model: Horror

The philosopher Adriana Cavarro wrote about these horror works through a “horror” framework. With this term, it describes a form of non -personal violation of deformation – such as burning patients in the family of hospitals – and massacres, such as those we were witnessing daily in Gaza.

The concept of terror requires that we deal with violence not from the perpetrator’s perspective – as it often happens in the war – but for the victim. It is the victim who has the power of naming violence, self -determination and value. The personality of the victim is clearly represented by Cavarero by children, such as thousands of Palestinian children who have been distorted and killed by Israeli soldiers and American weapons over the past 15 months.

Hope for terror as an ethical model is that by removing the preoccupation with “terrorists” and reformulating violence through the most vulnerable lens, or those who need care, we may end the “endless” war on terrorism. This is strengthened by terror for the most afflicted people in the world, who are not surprising. In this model, the human effects of violence, not intentions or justifications for that, are all important.

It also represents direct accounts and desperate calls of doctors, nurses and other health workers who provide care in Gaza in an effective way, as the echo of terror in hospitals may be deeper and more determined than any other context. Doctors, who have distinguished access and obligations to the most endlessness – along with the large economic, cultural and political power – have a unique position to apply horror lessons to condemn and stop violence.

Horror calls us to see and judge the violence from the hospital corridor – the shelter for the displaced, the distorted, and the death. So, evangelical doctors in terror should be costly not only the healing of the wounded but also to do everything in their power to treat the world by deciphering the wars that cause death and disability for those who attract us for care.

Total war and genocide

The horror of colonial wars is an essential feature of what another philosopher, Jean -Paul Sartre, described half a century ago as the emergence of a new form of “total war” in the post -colonial era that began after the Second World War.

In her book, shocking fighting, the anthropologist Nadia Abu Al -Hajj described Sartre to French and American wars against Vietnam. In the words of Al -Hajj, while the imperial forces tried to get rid of the anti -colonial movements, “colonial powers kept their superiority in terms of weapons, but they were in an undoubted position in terms of numbers.”

When facing an “enemy” consisting of armed fighters supported by the dream of all freedom, the colonial armies are “all unable”-if they are compatible with the so-called alleged rules of human war and respect for civil life, and that is.

Their only hope for defeating the enemy in this scenario is to set such rules on the side and apply themselves to destroy the entire people. In this model, the shelling hospitals no longer avoid them and do not prevent them by respecting the law or life; It is a strategic necessity.

“Total genocide”, Sartre noticed, “reveals itself as a basis for the prince’s strategy.” As for the colonial power, it seems that the genocide “is the” only possible response “to” the rebellion of a whole people against its oppression “, which led to a” complete war “that is no longer between two army.

The total war under the colonial circumstances is “fought to the end of one side” against a largely isolated people. Sartre concludes that “the Apple blackmail” was not just a threat to the Vietnamese population, but since his violence “committed under our eyes every day.” He turned all those who did not condemn it into “partners”.

Getting rid of humanity attaches this to brutal, consumers, and negative consumers of this terror, lead Sartre to the conclusion that “the group that Americans are trying to destroy through the Vietnamese nation is all humanity.”

It was clear that the similarities between Sartre’s analysis of American violence in Vietnam and the United States of the Israel War – which was apparent against Hamas, but in reality more than 17,000 dead Palestinian children were measured, it was clear that all Palestinians in Gaza – it is very clear to ignore.

Accountability and compensation

In the days after the burning of the Dalo, the media around the world has published stories about his life and death. Among the stories in which they appeared, his hope was to become a doctor – the details that confirm the harshness of his killing during the hospital’s care.

It also puts a blatant relief to reject the medical profession in the United States over the past 15 months to embrace its clear moral commitment to take advantage of weapons to Israel for these crimes.

As doctors in the United States, we have repeatedly The name on Our profession – One claims to be rooted in commitment to care and human dignity and the most vulnerable – to change the path and act boldly against violence in Gaza according to our supposed principles. Now, with the arrival of the initial ceasefire, this must include re -repetition and accountability for the total moral and political shortcomings offered by the genocide in Gaza.

But we cannot stop simply the speech and give the moral character to self -thinking. We must insist on compensatory work, including the release of thousands of Palestinian civilians – including Dr. Hafam Abu Soufa and many other health workers – taken by Israel hostage, restoring the lands of the entire Gaza tape to the Palestinians, and pushing it to pay the compensation of Israel, the United States and the European Which enabled the genocide to support the complete reconstruction of Gaza, including its homes, hospitals, universities, sewage infrastructure and schools that are now in ruin.

We must also demand the end of the Israeli occupation, the continuous violent seizure of the Palestinian territories, and an blockade of the provision of weapons to an Israeli government that clearly demonstrated itself on its willingness and assassinating it against the civilian population in violation of international law.

If the United States government supports Israeli efforts to occupy Gaza, forcing its Palestinian residents to exile, and the Palestinians refuse their rights to return to their lands, as we see now Early indicators Who, then we have a strong and opposing coding commitment. The truth is that violence against the Palestinians has not stopped, and we must not deceive ourselves in the belief that our moral obligations in relation to it are over.

While we organize with each other to start the impossible task, but the necessary thing to atone for the violence that our nation and its medical field – and we are still cooperating, we must have our moral responsibility towards the memory of those who, like them, like the Dalo young men and those who must now try to live in The unbearable horror.

The opinions expressed in this article are the authors ’king and the views of any dependent institutions or the position of liberation from the island.