By The Independent

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More than 150 health care workers, including doctors, nurses and surgeons, who volunteered in Gaza have asked US president Donald Trump to end America’s military, economic and diplomatic support for the “ongoing destruction of Gaza”.

“We are among the very few neutral American observers that Israel has permitted to enter Gaza for nearly two years,” the group, which includes surgeon Feroze Sidhwa from the California Northstate University College of Medicine, wrote in an open letter to Trump.

The health care workers warned that children in Gaza were facing “every possible type of injury”, including dismemberment, gunshots to the head and chest, and evisceration.

“Most of us saw pre-teen children shot in the head or chest on a regular basis, often multiple times per day,” the group wrote.

“We beg you to hear the cries of Gaza’s children that our consciences will not let us forget. We cannot fathom why our government continues arming Israel while its armed forces kill children en masse.”

The group urged Trump to immediately end “US military, economic, and diplomatic support for the ongoing destruction of Gaza, and support an international arms embargo on all warring parties”.

“These policies should remain in place until a permanent resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is negotiated and implemented between the two parties,” they wrote.