Doctor describes amputating girl’s leg in Gaza without anaesthesia
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
· collected 2026-08-16
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Summary
An orthopedic surgeon, Mark Perlmutter, describes performing an amputation on a 5-year-old girl in Gaza without anesthesia due to supply shortages caused by conflict. The operation took place during Israel's military actions in the region. No specific details are provided about the context of the war or its impact on medical supplies beyond that they had run out.
Written by the local model on 2026-08-16,
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Claims extracted
3
claim-shaped sentences
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0%
0 of 3 hedged
Leaning
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Publisher trust
96.5
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Outlets on this story
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Health
Narrative spread
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AI analysis (generated at analysis time, not now)
Story summary
In Gaza, an orthopedic surgeon named Mark Perlmutter was forced to amputate the leg of a five-year-old girl without giving her anesthesia due to a lack of medical supplies during Israel's military campaign in the region. The doctor said that his team sang to the girl while she remained awake and conscious throughout the procedure, as they "were praying for her to faint".
Written for “Gaza War Surgery Crisis” on 2026-08-31,
grounded in this article and the 0 other(s) covering the same event.
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Leaning score -0.60 for article 893 (high confidence, 1 verified quote) · logged 2026-08-26
Story
📰 Gaza War Surgery Crisis
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| Uncertainty density |
0.070 |
0.25 |
| Assertive mismatch rate |
0.000 |
0.35 |
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Claims (3 extracted, 0 hedged)
Doctor describes amputating girl’s leg in Gaza without anaesthesia
‘We were praying for her to faint’.
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her → describe → anaesthesia
Orthopedic surgeon Mark Perlmutter recounts amputating the leg of a five-year-old girl in Gaza without anaesthesia after supplies ran out during Israel’s genocidal war.
asserted
supplies → recount → war
He says doctors sang to her as she remained awake through the procedure.
asserted
she → say → procedure
