内容摘要：The current fighting has already displaced about 700,000 people this year, according to the UN.

The current fighting has already displaced about 700,000 people this year, according to the UN.

The memorial was attended by about 1,000 people, including the German ambassador to Namibia.‘Extermination order’

The Herero tribe revolted against German colonisers in January 1904, with the smaller Nama tribe joining the next year.The crackdown by German troops sent tens of thousands of people fleeing towards neighbouring Botswana.Then, in October 1904, German General Lothar von Trotha, under the command of German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II, signed a notorious “extermination order” against the Herero.

“Within the German boundaries, every Herero, with or without a gun, with or without livestock, will be shot dead,” the order said.Between 1904 and 1908, at least 60,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama people were killed, many at German-run concentration camps, although some estimates put the death toll higher.

Hundreds of Herero and Nama were also beheaded after being killed, with their skulls brought back to Germany for “scientific” experiments meant to prove racial superiority.

Since 2008, Namibian officials have demanded the bones be returned. Germany has complied, with ceremonial transfers in 2011 and 2018.In just one Israeli air strike – in just one minute – her entire world was annihilated.

Her husband Hamdy, 40, also a doctor, and their son Adam, 11, are in the ICU, their lives hanging by a thread inside Gaza’s disintegrating health system – not by chance but by design. The repeated, intentional targeting of hospitals and clinics has left Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure in ruins. In just one week, 12 of Gaza’s most dedicated nurses were killed, one by one.Commenting on the family’s condition, Dr Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in Nasser Hospital who operated on them, said the father had suffered a “penetrating injury to his head”, while “Adam’s left arm was just about hanging off; he was covered in fragment injuries and had several substantial lacerations.”

Her daughter Revan’s body was burned beyond recognition – “nothing remained of her skin or flesh,” her uncle said. In tears, Dr Alaa begged rescuers to let her hold her daughter one last time.Sadly, the white shrouds wrapped around the bodies of Gaza’s children continue to mount.