Palestinian children sit in a makeshift shelter at Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Sunday. Reuters

A paediatric intensive care doctor has revealed a new but heart-wrenching acronym doing rounds in Gaza hospitals and among medical fraternity in the area which can shock even the most cold-hearted person on Planet earth.

Speaking to BBC News’ The Context last week, Dr Tanya Haj Hassan said the acronym “which is unique to the Gaza Strip '' is WCNSF – wounded child, no surviving family.

Dr Haj-Hassan, who is working with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has further explained that in the last three weeks this acronym WCNSF was coined just three weeks ago and is used quite frequently in these last three weeks.

She says the acronym – wounded child, no surviving family – which is new even to the Gazans themselves, should not have existed in the first place itself.
 
She calls the Gaza war ‘avalanche of human suffering,’ and says that it is 100% man made.

Dr Haj-Hassan who has been working as a trainer for physicians and surgeons in Gaza for almost a decade, says that the latest Israel-Hamas war is the worst humanitarian crisis she has experienced in her lifetime while pursuing a long career in humanitarian medicine.

Entire health system in Gaza has collapsed, she says, adding that it’s burning through the hearts of every single humanitarian that she knows.

She expresses her disbelief that US President Joe Biden is justifying the warmongering which is ‘a collective stain on humanity.’

Dr Haj-Hassan believes that the calls for a humanitarian pause in the war so that aid can reach those in Gaza are not enough.

She doesn’t agree with the word ‘pause’ asking, “You pause to nourish and hydrate a population before you kill them?”

She says that she is not a politician but believes that instead of a humanitarian pause there should be ‘ a humanitarian truce.’

Her emotional interview on BBC has gone viral and has been shared by a number of people on social media which includes  Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf.

“This acronym should be seared into our collective conscience, and haunt us. We need an immediate ceasefire so no more children suffer,” Humza Yousaf wrote on his X handle along with the video of Dr Haj-Hassan.