American Pediatrician Who Worked in Gaza Hospital Recalls Horrors of Israel's War
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Published 2024-02-06
We speak with Dr. Seema Jilani, a pediatrician who spent two weeks in Central Gaza volunteering in the Al-Aqsa Hospital emergency room. "I saw the fall of a hospital before my very own eyes," says Jilani, who shares recorded voice notes from her time in the besieged territory while trying to save children in a health system collapsing under Israeli pressure and bombing. "I have never treated this many war-wounded children in my career." Finally, Jilani shares why she continues to serve as a doctor in war zones with the International Rescue Committee. "It is the absolute honor of my life to serve the people of Gaza," she says. "It is all of our responsibility to consider those orphans, consider those families who are completely bereft of any and all human dignity that has been taken from them. … Their fate will sit with us."
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All Comments (21)
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Gaza is populated with heroes of all ages.
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Justice, human rights and freedom for Palestine 🇵🇸
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“The biggest insult to the memory of the Holocaust is not denying it but using it to commit genocide against the Palestinian people.” — Norman Finkelstein
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Stop settlements. Stop apartheid. Stop forcible transfer. Stop ethnic-cleansing. Stop collective punishment. Stop genocide. Free Palestine!
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This is the type of human being who I would want as my doctor. Amazing people.
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Free Palestine
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Palestinian people keep your cameras on! It makes a difference!
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this woman is a hero, an absolute hero of humanity
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Thank you for your dedication and tenderness with the devastation you are handling everyday. You are among all the heroes in this terrible catastrophe!!🇨🇦❤❤❤🇵🇸
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if all you can do is share these stories , then it is required of you to speak out against genocide and war crimes !
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I’m from the UK and our press is currently full of the king’s cancer diagnosis and how the country can cope without him “carrying out his duties”. What you are doing DN is news. Thank you for this.
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God bless you doctor Seema Jilani for your dedication and courage.
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Free Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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This obscenity seeks justice especially for those medically suffering. End the impunity.🙏🏻🕊🤲
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The world needs to wake up
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Why are we so helpless to against this extreme atrocities? 😢this thing can happen to us too
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you are allowed to be critical of your own government in the USA , but you are not allowed to be critical of Israel ?
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Thank you doctor for your fight for good.
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Thank you for the work you did❤🙏🇵🇸
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Thank you all for your work 🤲🇵🇸♥️
