Posts Tagged ‘doctor’
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey
January 23rd, 2011 • News
Tags: book, doctor, Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish, gaza, I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey
Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish
We saved lives, your sisters’ blood wasn’t wasted.
Two years ago, Israeli shells fell on Dr Abuelaish’s family home in Gaza, killing three of his young daughters and their cousin. The horror was caught live on Israeli TV when the doctor phoned his broadcaster friend. Amazingly, the loss did not embitter Izzeldin Abuelaish. Instead he decided his girls’ deaths must not be in vain – and slowly he has turned his family tragedy into a force for peace.
Read the review at The Observer…
Book: Norwegian doctors’ “Eyes in Gaza”
October 5th, 2010 • Awareness, News
Tags: al-shifa, book, doctor, gaza, hospital, mads gilbert
Dr Mad Gilbert‘s book, Eyes in Gaza, has now been translated into English and launches this week in the UK.
Review by Raymond Deane at ei:
Eyes in Gaza is a detailed and harrowing account by the Norwegian doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse of their experiences in al-Shifa Hospital during Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza in December 2008-January 2009. For a time, they were not just the only western doctors in Gaza, but among the handful of western witnesses to what they repeatedly call Israel’s “massacre” of some 1,400 Palestinian men, women and children. Hence the book’s title, bearing witness to their status as witnesses.
At noon on New Year’s Eve 2008, four days after the start of Israel’s onslaught, Gilbert and Fosse entered Gaza from Egypt. On the morning of 10 January 2010, with Israel’s campaign still having a week to run, they returned to Egypt and were replaced by another Norwegian medical team. During the intervening period they assisted their Palestinian colleagues — whose “historic heroism” (112) they praise unstintingly — in performing an average of twenty operations daily on the civilian victims of Israel’s orgy of shooting and bombing. In the absence of western media they also acted as reporters (“white voices” — 121-122), giving ten to fifteen interviews daily.
Here’s Dr Mads Gilbert on AJE’s Riz Khan, discussing the medical conditions in Gaza:
