“From the south of Gaza, trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter huddle in front of their webcam at Nasser Hospital to describe the horrors they’ve witnessed over the last week since Israel broke the ceasefire. “We’re losing friends all the time. We all have medical student friends that we befriended last year that are now dead,” Dr. Perlmutter tells Mehdi Hasan.
Dr. Sidhwa, meanwhile, had a closer-than-usual brush with death this week when an Israeli airstrike on the hospital killed his 17-year-old patient. He pointed out on Twitter how he could have been killed, too. “I got a call from the US Embassy after I sent out that tweet, because I think people saw it, and the lady said, ‘Hi, this is the embassy. We just want to make sure you’re okay.’ And I was like, yeah, I’m fine. If you want to be sure I stay okay, maybe you could ask the Israelis not to bomb Nasser Hospital again, and I swear to God, she goes, ‘Actually, that’s not our role, sorry.’”
This interview was originally published earlier on Zeteo.com. Watch the full interview to hear the heartbreaking stories that both doctors share with Mehdi Hasan, including how Dr. Perlmutter was forced to use a drill bit to fix a child’s fractured arm, and how Dr. Sidhwa treated a family attacked by an Israeli Apache helicopter. They also tackle the Israeli claim that fighters are hiding in Gaza’s hospitals.”