What the Wounds Are Telling Us

by Door Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra, 13 September 2025 [de Volkskrant at volkskrant.nl]

“Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, which spoke with the doctors who are among the last international eyewitnesses.”

 

[De Volkskrant, via Naked Capitalism 06-08-2026]

This Dutch compilation of eyewitness accounts from doctors who voluntarily served in Palestinian hospitals in Gaza was published in September last year. It has been awarded the European Press Prize for 2026. Conor Gallagher linked to it this morning in Naked Capitalism.

Be warned: it is brutal and ugly. Try to force yourself to read through it entirely.

What the Wounds Are Telling Us