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An open letter from @FerozeSidhwa & I as we serve on a humanitarian mission in Gaza, you can read the letter in image form or read the đ§ľ:
On March 25 the two of us, an orthopedic surgeon and a trauma surgeon, traveled to the Gaza Strip to work at Gaza European Hospital.
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Last night in Gaza, we operated on a 15 year old girl who was riding her bike when she was shredded by an Apache helicopter. She will be lucky if she keeps 2 of her limbs after 12 hours of collective surgery
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2 nights ago, a 13 yr old boy & his grandma were ordered to evacuate from Gaza city by the IDF. As they were driving south, their car was minced by 2 Apache helicopter gun ships, killing the grandma instantly. He lost both legs and right arm. His crime: being a Palestinian
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We urge anyone who reads this to publicly oppose sending weapons to Israel as long as this genocide continues, until the Israeli siege of Gaza is lifted, and until an end to the occupation can be negotiated.
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If a rat is found inside of an Israeli orphanage, would Netanyahu burn down the entire orphanage and incinerate all of the children within it merely to exterminate the single rat? Hamas is 0.01% of Gaza & the extermination of its population is a genocidal war crime.
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âWe cry and hurt with the people of Gaza and Palestineâ
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss decried the Israelâs ongoing onslaught on Gaza at the European Summit for Palestine in Istanbul, refuting the claim that the war is in the name of Judaism.
#zionism #israelpalestineconflict #gaza
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We came to Gaza as two individual snowflakes trying to stop this avalanche of death and horror, and yet we also feel responsible for it.
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As humanitarian surgeons we thought we had seen all manner of cruelty in the world, but neither one of us has ever experienced anything like what we found when we arrived in Gaza.
We exited the van into a sea of children, all shorter and thinner than they ought to have been.
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Would you accept someone cutting a hole in your neck to attach your ventilator or perhaps zipping up the body bag of your significant others?
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Israel has dropped so much American ordinance on Gaza that it now exceeds the explosive force of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. More children have been killed in Gaza than were killed in all war zones in the entire world in the past four years.
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We walked through the wards and immediately found evidence of horrifying violence deliberately directed at civilians and even children. A three-year-old boy shot in the head, a 12-year-old girl shot through the chest, an ICU nurse shot through the abdomen...
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No conflict of any size in history has ever been this deadly to journalists, healthcare workers, or paramedics. Indeed, we and our entire team live in constant fear that Israel will attack this hospital directly, as it has with so many others.
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Voltaire quipped that âno snowflake feels responsible for the avalancheâ, but we as Americans must acknowledge that we are responsible for this crime against humanity that is unfolding in front of the entire world.
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We made the short journey from the Rafah crossing to Khan Younis, where Gaza European Hospital stands as one of the last remaining semi-functional hospitals for the 2.5 million human beings - half of them children - in the Gaza Strip.
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Even over their screams of joy at meeting new foreigners, the snowmobile-like hum of Israeli drones could be heard overhead. That background noise is a constant reminder that violence and death can rain down on anyone at any time in this besieged and ransacked territory.
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Now we know the pain of being unable to properly treat a child who will slowly die, but also alone, because she is the only surviving member of an entire extended family. We have not had the heart to tell these children how their families died: burnt...
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The two of us continue to hope against hope that American politicians, and especially President Biden, will abandon their support for Israelâs war on the Palestinians. If they do not, then we have learned nothing from the history of the past hundred years.
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It leads to Gaza European Hospital & to 2 trauma surgeons realizing that the blood on the floor of the trauma bay & the operating room is dripping from our own hands, as we provide the crucial funding, weapons, & diplomatic support for a genocidal assault on a helpless population
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...powerful explosion. The timing of these explosions always coincides with âiftarâ, when families in this overwhelmingly Muslim county break the daily fast of Ramadan and are most vulnerable.
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Our limited sleep is constantly interrupted by explosions that shake the hospitalâs walls and pop our ears, even well after the United Nations Security Council declared a ceasefire must be implemented. When warplanes scream overhead everyone braces for a particularly loud and...
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The United States has heavily funded and overwhelmingly armed what is called âthe occupationâ of Palestine, but the term is misleading. Israelâs first president, Chaim Weizmann, declared that the existence of the Palestinians was simply âa matter of no consequence.â
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As humanitarian trauma surgeons we have both seen incredible suffering.Collectively we were present at Ground Zero on 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Boston Marathon Bombing, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti on the first day of these disasters.
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...all by some of the best-trained marksmen in the world. Every square inch of the hospitalâs floor is taken up with makeshift tents where displaced families live. They are the lucky several hundred who get to live indoors...
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Thirty years later, Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan told the Israeli cabinet that the Palestinians âwould continue to live like dogsâŚand we will see where this process leads.â Now we know: this is where it leads.
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...of dirt & debris. With the environment literally embedded in our patientsâ bodies we have found infection control to be impossible. No amount of medical care could ever compensate for the damage being inflicted here.
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...unlike the tens of thousands sheltering outside on the hospitalâs grounds.
As we got to work we were shocked by the violence inflicted on people. Incredibly powerful explosives ripped apart rock, floors, & walls & threw them through human bodies, penetrating skin with waves...
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This long experience taught us that there was no greater pain as a humanitarian surgeon than being unable to provide needed care to a patient. But that was before coming to Gaza.
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... until they resembled blistered hotdogs more than human beings, shredded to pieces such that they can only be buried in mass graves, or simply entombed in their former apartment buildings to die slowly of asphyxia and sepsis.
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We have worked in the depravation of southern Zimbabwe and the horrors of the war in Ukraine. Together we have worked on more than 40 surgical missions in developing countries on three continents in our combined 57 years of volunteering.
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Above are just a small percentage of the patients I saw just this week. The carnage inflicted by the IDF is immeasurable and it is both purely genocidal and paid for exclusively by United States and German tax dollars. Mia culpa.
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As an American surgeon of Jewish heritage who operated on children in Gaza, I attest that this is pure genocide. The shredded and burned Palestinian women and children were not the unfortunate casualties of war against Hamas by the IDF, but rather their intended target all along!
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This 85-year-old anesthesiologist has been helping me since I had arrived in Honduras. Although he had retired 20 years ago, he has volunteered every day since then to help the children. My new hero!
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Tomorrow I head home from San Pedro Sula with many new friends! Thanks to all of you who helped us care for the hearts attached to the 28 hands and 4 feet we operated on!
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Alba Silva flew into Honduras from Ecuador where we are doing surgery this week. I havenât seen her since she was 5 years old when I separated 8 of her fingers that were fused together. She returned my investment into her and so today, DOCTOR Alba Silva became my colleague!!
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I am an American surgeon of Jewish heritage and I worked in Gaza witnessing the genocide firsthand. I can only pray that people in power like you base their decisions on genuine facts and not your AIPAC funded bias.
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Muslims fought in the US revolution. They were here probably before your ancestors. You stand as proof that bigotry and stupidity are symbiotic.
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Youâre as much a physician as Josef Mengele. All fighters are treated preferentially. The famine was caused by your food deprivation, ×Ö°××Öź××Ö¸×
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Shutting down media has always been the tool of fascist governments such as Netanyahuâs, which is trying to be a theocracy while pretending to be a democracy.
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Youâre an asshole who doesnât know what damn thing about history or the Palestinian people. You have a red Maga hat, donât you?
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Below is an orthopedic surgeon who was shot in the knee, while refusing to leave his patient in the operating room when ordered to do so by an IDF soldier.
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Expanding global surgery efforts into low and middle income countries that have limited or no postoperative pain medication resources presents a unique problem that the Picara Corporation steps up to solve with amazing benevolence.
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Many thanks to the Pacira Corp. for their benevolent donation of Exparel. Their generosity will be measured by the countless tears that were never shed!
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Or for Israel to allow more settlers and the IDF to commit more war crimes against humanity.
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70% of my surviving family is Jewish! I am hardly anti-Semitic, but I am anti-Zionist! I am anti-Netanyahu and the right wing politic that keeps them in power.
My attached photograph should make the IDFâs job easier:
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AOA is meaningless and no patient has ever asked me where I did my residency or fellowship! Patients will measure only what matters. So should we. Remember, âDr.â Scott Atlas is a division Chief at Stanford!
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âWe cry and hurt with the people of Gaza and Palestineâ
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss decried the Israeli stateâs ongoing onslaught on Gaza at the European Summit for Palestine refuting the claim that the war is in the name of Judaism.
#zionism #israelpalestineconflict #gaza
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âWe cry and hurt with the people of Gaza and Palestineâ
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss decried the Israelâs ongoing onslaught on Gaza at the European Summit for Palestine in Istanbul, refuting the claim that the war is in the name of Judaism.
#zionism #israelpalestineconflict #gaza
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As a surgeon working in Gaza, and Iâve personally seen 100 of the 20,000 children shredded by IDF bombs! If a rat enters an orphanage in Tel Aviv, will Netanyahu burn down the entire orphanage incinerating all the children, or just simply remove the rat?
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And 15 to 20,000 of them have been innocent children. Israelâs genocidal behavior parallels that of Nazi Germany in the 40s, an unfortunate history that their ultra right politic continues to exploit to their advantage at the expensive Palestinian blood.
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All the Jews of the world unite! We should recognize in unison that we are responsible for the needless murder of Palestinian children. The attached photograph should make their job easier:
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Again today I have seen firsthand the carnage inflicted on innocent woman and children in Gaza. You are not a gift. You suck up my tax dollars under the pretense of adding security to the Middle East when you are the major source of its bloodshed.
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And may be America should reconsider selling everything to Israel! Where would your Air Force be if it wasnât for us? Who in the hell do you think funded your iron dome? Israel would be weak and doomed. If it wasnât for my taxpayer dollars which now go to slaughter children.
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As I sit in the operating room in Gaza at this very moment, I hear Apache gunships shooting their machine guns into noncombatant neighborhoods. Abraham is crying.
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And if your parents were still alive as surgeons, they can help me so together the 100 children that were shredded by Israeli bombs just this week. How contradictory you are.
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If a rat enters an orphanage, do you burn down the whole orphanage and incinerate all of the children just to kill the rat? âOh, but you knew the rat was there children, why didnât you say something?â
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1/2 Trust me, being a member of AOA has contributed nothing to my professional life or happiness. âAchievingâ the residency program of your choice⌠Equally nothing!
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Standing with Israel does not mean that you have to stand with your right wing government committing genocide. I am an American surgeon of Jewish heritage, and I see every day the atrocities that both of our countries are committing. Donât be blinded by Netanyahuâs bullshit.
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Famine kills as effectively as bullets and shrapnel the real target of the Netanyahu regime, that is, the future generation of Palestinians.
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