As Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza intensifies, the testimony of Dr. Kathleen Gallagher, a U.S. military veteran and general surgeon volunteering at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, should shock our conscience. Treating up to 400 patients daily, Gallagher reports that nearly 40% are under the age of 20. Just this week, she witnessed six children killed by single gunshots to the head—lethal wounds that suggest deliberate targeting.
Having served as a medic in Iraq and Afghanistan and volunteered in Honduras and Ukraine, Gallagher insists Gaza is “worse than anything I’ve ever seen.” She describes overwhelming trauma cases from gunshots and explosions, mass displacement, and the near-total destruction of civil infrastructure. What she sees on the ground amounts to what she calls “the extermination of a people and a way of life.”Her testimony follows a recent U.N. inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, violating four of the five acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention. Gallagher reminds us this is not a matter of politics but of basic morality.
Americans cannot ignore the voices of those risking their lives to bear witness. We must demand our leaders act with courage and humanity to end this senseless slaughter.
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