Impact of Violence on Children in Gaza

in Gaza? End of April for the first couple weeks.

And then there's sniper bullets. I have children that were shot twice.

Wait, you're saying that children in Gaza are being shot by snipers? Definitively.

I have two children that I have photographs

of that were shot so perfectly in the chest I couldn't

put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately and directly on the side of the

head in the same child.

No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the world's best sniper.

And they're dead center shots.

In fact, more than 20 doctors recently in Gaza also told Sunday Morning

about gunshot wounds to children.

One American doctor told us he even reviewed CT scans to confirm what he saw

because he,

quote, didn't believe that this many children could be admitted to a

single hospital with gunshot wounds to the head.

Some shootings have been captured on video.

So of all the disaster zones you've seen, how does Gaza compare?

All of the disasters I've seen combined,

combined 40 mission trips, 30 years, ground zero earthquakes, all of that combined

doesn't equal the level of carnage that I saw against civilians

in just my first week in Gaza.

And when you say civilians, is it mostly children?

Almost exclusively children. I've never seen that before.

Never seen that.

I've seen more

incinerated children than I've ever seen in my entire life combined.

I've seen more

shredded children in just the first week. Shredded?

Shredded. What do you call it?

Shredded buildings, the greatest majority, or bomb explosions,

the next greatest majority.

We've taken shrapnel as big as my thumb out of eight year olds.

The UN reports that to date,

more than 80 of Gaza's population has been displaced and the majority of its

buildings destroyed.

A reality which has taken its own toll on the well being of children.

What about the emotional wounds? How can you measure that?

I can't measure my own.

How do you be an orphan watching your family,

you know, melted in front of you and shredded in front of you?

How do you fix that, ever fix that?

In fact, so many Palestinian children have had family members killed

that doctors created a shorthand term,

WCNSF, Wounded Child, No Surviving Family.