This is an avalanche of human suffering that's 100% man-made.

It is the worst humanitarian catastrophe I've experienced in my lifetime and in my

growingly long career in humanitarian medicine.

And it's burning through the hearts of every single humanitarian that I know.

You know, I'm going to paint a picture for you of the degree of suffering that we're seeing. People keep asking me about medical aid and

hospitals and the situation of the hospitals. The entire hospital health care

system collapsed almost a week ago. It was announced on TV for the whole world to see.

And in that week, there has been indiscriminate bombardment.

I don't even know if indiscriminate's the right term because it's targeting health care facilities,

ambulances, churches, mosques, schools, refugee camps, densely populated refugee camps,

refugee camps, wiping out entire families in a second,

entire multi-generational extended families in a second.

There are almost 1,000 families in the Gaza Strip who have had at least two

members of their family, at least two members killed in the last three weeks.

There are almost 4,000 children who have been killed and identified,

excluding almost a thousand children whose bodies are still trapped under the rubble.

Some of them may be alive for a long period. whose bodies are still trapped under the rubble.

Some of them may be alive for a long period

before they ultimately die under the rubble.

And I'm sorry if there are any young children watching this.

Perhaps this is a good time to ask them to leave the room but I think it's important that I paint a picture

particularly when I'm following a news narrative that almost dismisses this avalanche of suffering that is unprecedented in modern times.

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