Michael Rose, an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, published an op-ed in the Washington Post on Nov. 10 under the headline, “Injured Kids Are Dying in Gaza. Send in the Hospital Ships.” His point:
“Biden ordered a fleet of military ships and an aircraft carrier closer to the war between Israel and Hamas. Days later, he ordered a second carrier group to steam into the Eastern Mediterranean. As a doctor, I don’t pretend to know the geopolitical calculus governing these decisions. But I do know what it feels like to witness the death of a child—and to be haunted by the possibility that it was preventable. I know that, with thousands of children dying in the current Middle East conflict, there are two other ships we ought to send to the region.”
