According to The Guardian, citing foreign surgeons who worked in Gaza, Israeli weapons designed to disperse high levels of shrapnel are inflicting severe injuries on civilians, particularly children.
The weapons, used in densely populated civilian areas, include missiles and shells packed with additional metal fragments intended to maximize harm.
Volunteer doctors at Gaza hospitals report that a significant portion of their surgeries involve children struck by tiny shrapnel pieces that cause extensive internal damage despite leaving nearly imperceptible entry wounds.
Amnesty International has criticized these weapons for their apparent intent to cause maximum casualties.
Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon from California who worked at a hospital in southern Gaza, described treating numerous young children with injuries from these small but devastating shrapnel pieces: “About half of the injuries I treated were in young kids. The splinter injuries were minuscule—much smaller than anything I’ve encountered before—but they caused extensive internal damage.”
