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Travis's avatar

The medical community's survivor nomenclature in Gaza "Wounded Child, No Surviving Family" (WCNSF) for kids who lost legs, etc. but have nobody left to take care of them is particularly haunting. Especially when considering how many of them there are. That's covered here today in the BBC link below (dare you to look at the article images without feeling like shit). And that's before you talk about the Palestinian kids who died in the bombings since 10/7, of which there are some 6,000+. Gaza in a graveyard of children made of rubble now, and there's no getting around those numbers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67614139

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Alondra's avatar

When our kids were little our house flooded to the rafters. With a great deal of help we were able to elevate and repair our home. After more than a year living in a small trailer (and tents in summer) in the yard we were able to move in to a restored, lovely home. Throughout, there was rarely a day that I didn't note in myself a complete absence of anger. If people had been responsible for our situation, I think I would have been permanently enraged.

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Travis's avatar

Glad you guys have recovered from that terrible experience. Yea, I'd say that if something like that came from people rather than nature you'd probably be feeling the way Palestinians feel about the IDF.

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