Civilian suffering in Gaza: Eyewitness testimony from inside ravaged enclave • FRANCE 24 English

As the war in Gaza enters its 200th day, FRANCE 24’s Delano D’Souza is joined on set by Arwa Damon, founder of INARA (International network for aid, relief and assistance), a charity set up to help children impacted by war. "I have never seen anything like this in my 20 years reporting from war zones," said the former CNN correspondent who recently came back from a humanitarian mission in Gaza. "Despite the images that we are seeing, I don't know if there is a sufficient appreciation to the sort of depths of trauma that is being inflicted on people every single day."
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[@Dakshahathi]

It is even more heartrending to watch the Gaza children never forgetting to smile even inside the black hole of death and agony

[@allanbrown3065]

Sad next time don’t do October 7🙄 take babies for hostage and not expect massive retaliation 🙄 Next time maybe don’t listen to Iran and try to co exist like million plus Israeli Arabs 🙄

[@markperlmuttermd8737]

80% of our many hundreds of traumatized patients were women and children and not one of our patients could be remotely identified as a combatant.

[@guillermotell2327]

A great report from a brave woman with human feelings.

[@nazimkhan2066]

This is not traima. This is continuous trauma upon trauma. The effect will last a lifetime.

[@bernadettedunn3597]

Thank you for this report. You have explained what I've been thinking and feeling. This is beyond cruel and unusual.

[@MylifeMB]

I was in an refuge camp as an 8y old, 3x per day I would bring a gallon size ice cream tub to the soup kitchen to fill it up with whatever was being offered and bring it back for my family to eat. I was lucky I didn't lose any direct family members. Evey day was about the same for the kids but sometimes we wake up go to makeshift school though by other refugees, usually we just try to pass the time with nothing really productive to do. This is where the humanitarian aid workers play such an important part in the kids life, I will never forget getting toys and snacks, most of the time we didn't even speak the same language so we would learn kids songs and dances in the language of the aid workers, I remember one time we learned if you re happy and you know it clap your hands in Italian. I had no idea what we were saying until later in life, but we remembered the words and movements. I don't remember their names anymore of those aid workers because I'm and adult for a while now and at that time I didn't even realize how important they were in my life but if anyone reads this I just want to say: Thank you, you made a difference!!!!

[@user-qf1zg4zz8j]

Thank you for your beautiful truth and experience - For the sake of humanity REFUND UNRWA NOW.

[@majl7917]

'Offended by everything and ashamed of nothing.' - Israel in a nutshell -

[@nageshsharalaya2806]

and your mums closet of cucks

[@thenyloncurtain]

The HORROR 😰😓

[@Tyiion]

@@Western-imperalismYou sound like someone who is not from the west. You seem to be trying too hard.

[@nageshsharalaya2806]

why dont you hypocrites show the suffering of nigerian christians by boko haraam, sudanese civil war , massacre done by al shabaab. jew hating media sees only gaza.

[@sanad8112]

it is not the eyes that are blind but the hearts

[@user-bd8dg1xw4x]

​@@Western-imperalism when u dehumanizing anyone u r dehumanizing ur self more

[@happinesspeace5363]

​@@Western-imperalism It seems like the satanic microbe, which can also infect humans, has affected you. If you want to take a test. The test kit is as follows: 1-Do you see yourself as superior to some people, 2-Do you have hatred towards some people, 3-Does it bother you to see people around you who have something you do not have? If your answer is yes to all, you are positive for satanism(evil). In my opinion, the treatment is to realize that you are harming yourself and abandon the things that harm you.

[@nageshsharalaya2806]

why dont you hypocrites show the suffering of nigerian christians by boko haraam, sudanese civil war , massacre done by al shabaab. jew hating media sees only gaza.

[@ruthokelley5833]

How can any person not want to stop this atrocity…this collective suffering is unbelievable! No human deserves to be in this situation ever! All manmade…

[@hanilov]

Crimes of war, with no consequences 😢

[@prokahn]

tell that to hamas who hides amongst their civillians and puts weapons in schools, idioso

[@nageshsharalaya2806]

your mum should have had you ...but she had you...

[@user-qf1zg4zz8j]

Thank you for your truth and experience - For the sake of humanity REFUND UNRWA NOW.

[@ianr54]

I totally respect this lady,she had as a heart of gold,a true humanitarian,she has exposed the heinous crimes of Israel.God bless her

[@MY-in5cf]

Sad😢😢😢😢😢

[@raguifarag3688]

when you hear those words from someone who already seen the horrors of wars for 20 years Thx France24 to show part of the truth

[@Galdogobboy]

It’s so sad

[@Xcross40]

This France 24 is just waking up!! Journalism instinct just kicked in. I guess better late than never.

[@imadatallah45]

😢

[@soulfulfreedomheart2505]

War crimes and crimes against humanity.

[@AhJodie]

Thank you for sharing! Palestine people need freedom and safety!

[@OStam]

Never seen anything like it? Well, that could be true. If you never saw what happened in Syria lately and in Yemen, Sudan, Congo, Kurdistan, etc. etc. etc.

[@inessachse8916]

Danke für Ihren Hinweis!!! Ich habe auch darauf aufmerksam gemacht!!! Die Menschen vergessen, dass es überall auf der Welt so furchtbare Dinge passieren. Wo bleibt der Protest und die Empörung für diese Menschen???

[@Stardust475]

And Nigeria

[@Stardust475]

And many opportunities to actually have a state.

[@BertGraef]

do not deflect

[@dragonsunleashed4122]

​this is what people who are hypocrites do@@BertGraef

[@kevinjenner9502]

Netanyahu and his Pariah State GNCD

[@hanilov]

Majority of his people don't even support him anymore.

[@dawnricherson2604]

The God of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps and He will deliver ALL the enemies of Israel into her hands. THAT is what you are seeing. Glory to God! God bless Israel!!!🇮🇱

[@Tyiion]

@@hanilovBut they support this so called war.

[@lorenam8028]

Oh, they don't like him, but they are a-ok with gncd.

[@user-fw8de1sv8p]

War can be wrong, but it's never as wrong as the people who start a war. Why isn't the questions being asked: Why did Hamas start this war knowing the impact it would have on the people they represent? Why aren't the people of Palestine rising up against Hamas knowing the harm they have caused to their people? Because once you answer those two questions, you understand the real issues and problems.

[@Othman_channel]

😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔

[@dianehong1217]

When will this stop? We have collectively lost our humanity. It’s hard not to feel hopeless. We are all numb just to cope with the news of these atrocities.

[@user-ks4yn4qq7m]

This is The Cruelest what the World has ever see

[@BertGraef]

even the mongol hordes simply swept through and left piles of skulls . But they go on an on and simply bulldoze the evidence.

[@mohamedhesham1770]

😢😢😢

[@gloriaterry333]

Thank you for showing the truth.

[@StevenWolf275]

Human being

[@user-go9ij1pw6t]

When is this Genocide gonna stop. What is wrong with humanity??

[@FrankGulbrandsen]

The sorrows are heartbeakiing! Is there anything the palestinians could have done different?

[@shimmy332]

Ya Allah!😢

[@jessicaconeja5290]

😭

[@Iamusertoo]

it is sad, that she saw gaza and still call israel a democracy.

[@Western-imperalism]

Cope! The west > the rest

[@HuxtableTV]

Democracy is just another hijacked word. Has been, for a long time.

[@Iamusertoo]

@@Western-imperalism nice photo, where did you get that blanket from?

[@prokahn]

how do those two have anything to do with each other?

[@shannon_886]

The horror these children are experiencing takes my breath away

[@jimmymcgee4101]

I can not imagine the life of a hostage is

[@KarimaDerridj]

Yes , just look how they are living and you ll know , they are hostages of isreal the day they are born and the western hypocrites try as much as they can to hide the truth

[@jimmymcgee4101]

Did you see any armed men? Did you hear where the hostages are?

[@sannagesh6376]

It seems that you cry yourself hoarse when you get back a very severe response and you can't do anything about it. The least you can do is get wise and don't repeat the same mistake.

[@stuartwalker2355]

Sounds like an average day for almost half the south african population.

[@wirawhitebelt7364]

👍🇲🇾

[@fultoneth9869]

you were never been in Syria, Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Ethiopia.. How do you witness in comparison, "i have never seen "

[@BertGraef]

were you?

[@lorenam8028]

What difference would it make? Would something even worse make this ok? No. It wouldn't. So shut up hasbara.

[@bibalou309]

She should try Yemen or Sudan. True catastrophes.

[@taliabraver]

Or Syria!

[@BertGraef]

dont deflect

[@dragonsunleashed4122]

Only if term hypocrites had a face, people like you would suit it

[@aynurozmen821]

Massa graves

[@megj308]

Why in the world does this news split into 3 sections? I can’t watch-it’s too hard on eyes. Can’t you just do plain video?

[@Stardust475]

Show the atrocities in Nigeria against Christians and the war in Sudan

[@Feelthefx]

I wonder why they don’t give medical care to the hostages?

[@Googlygirldotcom]

How do know they’re not?

[@skontheroad]

How can anyone wonder why they didn't get any medical care?? And the Red Cross?? The Red Cross has not been to see the Hostages ONCE!!! As per International Law. And the box of medications that was given to them to pass out to the Hostages who needed these daily, prescribed meds were later seen on a desk. They were never handed out!

[@lorenam8028]

New hasbara strategy: Ask illogical questions and pretend they are important.

[@BrendaHeeligan]

They Hamas asked for medication for the hostages the first time that hostages were released, they were given medication for people they still had in their captivity.

[@ems4884]

Hamas only nees to surrender and release their hostages. This has always been in their hands. They currently want their own people to suffer

[@concernedrabbit9075]

Take a look at Mariupol and the destroyed maternity hospital etc. It's all awful.

[@henrylubinski2728]

Blame it on hamas leadership, hiding in luxury

[@lorenam8028]

Yes hasbara, that is exactly what the problem is. Just the same way that an abusive partner beats their partner "because they make them do it". 🙄

[@user-uq9pj2ts8k]

Sudan Haiti Ukraine Afghanistan all need humanitarian aid why is Gaza getting all the attention

[@superbael]

Because the ones who are best at playing victim card get most attention

[@valeriel9783]

Because the western world is involved, and refuses to acknowledge the truth that they've been ignoring the problem for 75 years, and have created a monster who benefits from impunity. I don't think anyone would undermine the suffering anywhere else in the world 😢😢

[@judea5340]

Incredibly cynical comment.

[@user-yy5mu3qj9g]

Why didn't this lady do this inspection before the war? How do children feel in a kindergarten with a rocket launcher? How did it affect their psyche? Why did young boys throw stones with slingshots at Israelis? What happened to their psyche before the war?

[@NPColoured]

Why did young Palestinian boys slingshot rocks at Israeli armoured vehicles driving through Westbank neighbourhoods?

[@MarthaKaputt]

how about the psyche of IsNOTreal sociopaths? do settler children carrying guns and shooting Pals farmers is normal? do jwisis children attacking Pals workers is normal? do settler children learning how to steal from the native population is normal? do settler children learning that they are superior to anyone else is normal?

[@JacintaPalerm]

Hasbara bot enabling genocide

[@lorenam8028]

Oh please hasbara, are you gonna go again about the guns in the MRI? Seriously? Go get an update course on the lies that you should be spreading cause it sounds like you're far behind.

[@user-yy5mu3qj9g]

@@lorenam8028 I don't need to take a course, I just need to talk to Palestinians in my country. Magnetic resonance imaging was devastated there, it costs a fortune, we have been waiting for such tests in our countries for a year.

[@tomhenry897]

Dancing oct7

[@lorenam8028]

Hannibal directive.

[@redleb1871]

Yawn .. how do you think the hostages are doing, you seem to ignore them every time. When I was a child I was told .. you reap what you sow … or Karma

[@justadam1917]

Hostages have been released by negotiation that Israel stopped Israel has killed more hostages the native freed through military action

[@lorenam8028]

Don't yawn, hasbara! Take your job seriously! I could barely even understand what you wrote... Also, btw, you're out of date. It's clear by now that the izzr govt doesn't care about them, so it's best not mentioning them 🤫

[@MrMAXZ888]

Can she tell 'civilians" and combatants apart? No one else can.

[@schofield4836]

Or those who support the combatants

[@ahmadbhatti4875]

can you tell apart 15000 children or not? and their mothers?

[@ahmadbhatti4875]

@@lorenam8028 hahaah well said

[@axelpar9034]

If you continue to support Hamas, you will see Gaza worse.

[@dubsar]

After October 7th, anything goes.

[@abdikatar8410]

6th Oct

[@Western-imperalism]

​@@royalempiar_7802 but ur losing so u need to adjust my friend

[@royalempiar_7802]

@@Western-imperalism western are losing the world you all are isolated and expose your double standard front of world you are losing big time

[@lorenam8028]

Goes to the Hague? Yeah. Soon.

[@alangould7154]

i'm amazed that u fail to mention the israeli hostages. certainly i've debated whether the best tactic to get them back is to deny food, water to the gazans. the conditions of the gazans is, i'm sure, some of the worst things to experience. but why didn't hamas build shelters over all these yrs before launching its attack? it's not surprising to me that hamas wants the ugliest images as possible since "if it bleeds, it leads." but i'm amazed that u paint the israelis as selfish, lacking compassion.

[@rvl8804]

They paint themselves that way, go to the I$raeli channels and question them on the hostages. Build shelters? Why doesn't the occupation end? The siege end? Why? HAMAS wanting us to see these images? Does this person reporting on this look like Hamas to you? Please stop looking for sympathy where it WILL NOT be given!

[@afrozuz]

Well not them ,ur IOF screwed u all. Most of u have this violent attitude who play victim card which all of u think it's a right way which to the world it's the nastiest thing. So don't u think u should spend some time to study world history and world manner?

[@Angry20Something]

You do know that Hamas gained popularity with Gazans after their founding by performing such work, right? They did multiple different kinds of social programs. Schools. Food drives. The PA was also corrupt and Palestinians were suspecting they were selling them out to the Israelis. Now that there has been one election, Hamas has been their only choice of a governing authority for the past almost 20 years. None of this excuses the Israeli government continuing to commit atrocities against Gazans in both this siege and previous sieges.

[@Angry20Something]

Also there were 8 refugee camps in Gaza when this started, and many of them have been there for decades because Israel stealing land by force and abusing Palestinians has always been the core issue here. From the beginning.

[@MY-in5cf]

If they bomb everywhere do you think they care about hostages please they just want the land

[@user-ty2yu1tk2i]

Hamas for everything happened to Gazans

[@deepthinker3939]

Liar! It's the evil IDF

[@NadiraMohamed-vt6us]

Khamas khamas go open your eyes 🤓 I think you need eye glasses

[@lorenam8028]

You would think they would at least part hasbara agents enough to actually speak English... Maybe they are running out of money? 🤔🤔🤔

[@Googlygirldotcom]

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