Editor’s Note:

In this article published by Politico, Trauma surgeons Mark Perlmutter and Feroze Sidhwa recall the horrors they saw in Gaza hospitals.

Trauma surgeons Mark Perlmutter and Feroze Sidhwa had seen warzones before, but nothing prepared them for the horrors they encountered upon arriving in Gaza to help treat people wounded in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Perlmutter, an orthopedic and hand surgeon from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and Sidhwa, a trauma and critical care surgeon from Northern California, witnessed the civilian carnage of the Israeli war in Gaza, Politico reported.

Both doctors volunteered in Gaza from the end of April through the first half of May.

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The number of badly maimed children, in particular, weighed heavily on Perlmutter and Sidhwa. “We started seeing a series of children, preteens mostly, who’d been shot in the head,” they write.

“They’d go on to slowly die, only to be replaced by new victims who’d also been shot in the head, and who would also go on to slowly die. Their families told us one of two stories: the children were playing inside when they were shot by Israeli forces, or they were playing in the street when they were shot by Israeli forces.”

Check to read the doctors’ testimony to the situation in Gaza here.