![Health workers and doctors continue to fulfill their humanitarian duties despite being hungry and, quite literally, exhausted at the Eye Hospital in Gaza, doctors have been operating under unprecedented workload and stress since Israel began its attacks on October 7, 2023 in Gaza City, Gaza on August 9, 2025. [Anas Zeyad Fteha - Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AA-20250809-38784946-38784930-GAZAS_MEDICAL_WORKERS_STRUGGLE_UNDER_UNPRECEDENTED_PRESSURE.jpg)
International doctors working in Gaza have reported a disturbing pattern of gunshot wounds among children, raising concerns of deliberate targeting, according to an investigation published Saturday by the Dutch daily de Volkskrant, Anadolu reports. The newspaper spoke with 17 doctors and a nurse from the US, UK, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands who worked in six hospitals and four clinics in Gaza since October 2023. Many had long experience in crisis zones, including Sudan, Afghanistan and Ukraine. Fifteen of them told de Volkskrant they treated at least 114 children aged 15 or younger with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest. Most of those children died of their injuries. The cases were documented between late 2023 and mid-2025 […]
