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cover what happened to that that detained man who was sent by the israelis to deliver their order to to evacuate and then was sumarily executed um what do you make of this what what how how how how how did this happen? well think it is in many ways we we should of of maybe not be shocked right but when you at the individual level, how the israelis are treating the palestinians, you get this sickening feeling of racism and a disregard for human life that you you you would not believe existed in our time a a one to one level, i mean using an f35 to fly over gaza and do some pinpoint or or just bomb dropping, you're not looking in the eyes of the other person, the other human, but this guy, he was for. at gun point to go and tell
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his fellow palestinians, you have to evacuate, and one thing you did not comment was that ironically they had put yellow band on his head, and for those who knows history, is of course, the yellow color and the yellow star used to be the way the nazis were marking the juice, if you had that yellow star you were doomed, so i don't why they put that yellow band on his. head, but to me that has very dark symbolism. he tries to convince his fellow palestinians, i have message, you have to leave, and this is, don't forget this is after days and days of shouting from loudspeakers and from the the the drones with loudspeakers, and we've seen videos how they call them out as animals and dirty whatever you know the israelies, they shout to the people nasar, very... ating very you shameful
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situation, naming of them and then they send this this brave palestinian in and it's a human shield, he comes back and they kill him, so if anybody dares tell me that israeli army, the occupation army are not killers and murderers, you know, just look at this one and it has to me a greater ramification and symbolism, is that they don't, they don't dare face sort of a man to man or woman to woman situation, they they handcuff you, they they undress you, they force you to creep on the floor. i just got a message from from young palestinian medical student that his father was released right now today, another brilliant palestinian doctor who has been working. with fairless risking his life for
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four months, is a colleague of mine, i've known him for 15 years, he was arrested three days ago, they released him today, and they had tortured him, like they have tortured so many of our colleagues while being in prison or in the concentration camp, this total disregard for for human life, this lack of respect for others than themselves is, i think... one of the the the main um one of the main, i don't like the word challenge, but the huge problem that we're facing is actually how the western world with the united states as the leader and the eu governments and the canadians and the australians until was it yesterday have been supporting this... passive israeli racism and
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colonialism against the palestinian people day by day, knowing what is going on, seeing the videos on social media, and don't tell me that the deep state, that state department and intelligence in the united states doesn't know every single one of these incidents and they accept it and they continue to support israel, and that's why i i say that this is this may be very disturbing. illustration on on what has been called necro politics by ashila so we may discuss later, but i'd like to point to another fact, this is a report that came out today actually, it's from the who, and it is summing up the number of attacks on healthcare in gaza from the 7th of october until the ' 12th of february, few
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days ago, and there has been, not one, not two, not 10, there has been 378 attacks on... health care in gaza by the israeli occupation army through these months, almost 400 attacks, so 100 attack per month on average and 659 people have been killed during these attacks on healthcare, and among them are, as we know, 340 healthcare workers and then 319 civilians, like the ones who have been killed in nasar hospital. "and i want to underline this point, because this don't make nasa hospital a sort of a special case, right? it's like human memory has been reduced down to not a week, but two days. this has been going on for four months, for heaven sake. the un has known it, all the foreign
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departments of the of the world has known it, and only one state, republic of south africa had the bravery and the courage and the decency to stand up and say stop it and go. to the icj and demand a stop, and there is no white government in the western world to my knowledge that has supported the rsa case in the icj, it's only governments from the global south, so even that step to try to control these crimes against humanity and this genocide has not been supported by the western government, where are they, what's happening, are we? entering into a new dark era of neocolonialism, i fear that's what we're seeing, and just to to report a little bit more on this, it's a very good graph, it's actually summing up the attacks in every one of the four governates in gaza, and how
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many hospitals? i'm sorry, five governor rates and how many hospitals have been damaged and how many hospitals are out of function, but don't forget 659 staff, patients and civilians have been killed during 378 israeli attacks on healthcare facilities, the primary healthcare sector in gaza is almost down to zero, there has been you know so many attacks on the clinics and they are almost all of them out of function, they have destroyed almost 100 ambulances and they have uh down most of the hospitals, only um six, i believe, are now working, three in the north and three or four in the south, but these numbers are are changing every day, and one more documentation is the right to health
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report from who, and this is the report from 2022, and they have a special chapter which is called health attacks. if you think this number 378 during the... four month of this attack is special, just read this report, they are reporting you know every single attack and from 2019 to 2021, who is reporting 563 attacks on palestinian healthcare in gaza and the west bank, right, so thousands of attacks going unpunished, impunity, absolutely no consequences for the israely occupation forces. these attacks, and every time i go to gaza, whether it's during bombing or in between when we do the research or teach or have projects in training people, i get this same sense as you describe of a very, very deep compassion for life, a compassion for serving others almost like,
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i'm a marxist, i'm i'm i'm a socialist, i'm a leftwinger, i'm you know, i've always been that, and and my my urge..." to use medicine as a tool of justice for uprights and to side up with the people fighting against injustice has always been part of my my determination as doctor, but to come to gaza and to the west bank and to see how these colleagues of mine in all different specialties and and and professional positions, how they serve their people is a reminder to me the... that you don't have to live in a in a well of western capitalist country in order to to give uh to give from your professionalism because you're well-fed and you're you know you're in a safe
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position and you have everything you need so you have this little extra to be an activist or social entrepreneur or anything in gaza and in the west bank it's it's this huge deep dedication to serve their people, you could call it the medical sood or you could call it the medical persistence, or you can go back to to rudolf was a european pathologist who died in 1901 and he was the the founder of public health as a specialty in medicine and he was very pronounced, he said that politics and medicine are two sides of the same thing, it's about society and the conditions, the living conditions for people, and he also said that the doctor should be the advocate the poor, the doctor should be the advocate the poor, because that's where the healthcare workers. needed, it's not needed for the rich people who can buy a private plane and go to a private clinic and whatever anywhere in the
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world, they always manage, but for the majority people, the healthcare workers are so important as their servants and as somebody who sides up with them and choose side with them, and to me the deepest ethics and ethos of medicine is to side up with those who need you, not to... be neutral, not to stand on the outside and say, "i will not comment on the politics of this, i will not comment of the israeli armies attack on hospital, i will only comment on this and this patient, fine, but then you are not serving as an advocate of the less fortunate, you have to choose side, neutrality, neutrality in a position of oppression being executed against a large numbers of people or even in a one to one situation." neutrality will end you on the side of the oppressor, as
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said the famous bishop from south africa, and and this neutrality of medicine is fake, medicine should actively choose side with the less fortunate, with the oppressed, with the occupied, with the bombed ones and say, we are on your side, we will stay with you, we will not abandon you, and we will even risk our lives to serve you. and that's what we see in gaza and i'm i'm immensely touched by the courage and the human dignity of the healthcare workers, and i want to mention one person who is often not mentioned and that is dr. yusuf aburish, he is the minister of health in gaza, few people even know his name, i've known k known him for 12, 13 years and he's been the minister of health for the last 12 years, i think, he's a pediatric. he's quite young, he's married, he has, i believe five kids and he's an extremely warm
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human being, and he's one of my absolute role models in this world, he has been on call for four months, night and day, never left his position as the leader of this incredibly brutally attacked healthcare system, and every time i talked to him is not given up, but he asked the question, how can this be allowed to go on? not only has israel, you know, completely destroyed several hospitals, not a single hospital in gaza out of the 36 remains fully functional, there are some that are partially functional, there are some that are barely functional, but not a single one out of the 36 remains fully functional, but something dr. abasitte said that really st with me is that not only is israel systematically targeting medical facilities,
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but they are targeting medical professionals, and israel's objective in targeting medical professionals is to cripple the health sector by killing an entire generation of doctors to the extent that building the hospitals after the genocide would not even suffice to restore the health sector. mean it's it's such an unspeakable thing, but this is all part of israel's goal to make gaza completely uninhabitable and compelling palestinians to leave the ghaza strip which is one of israel's ultimate war goal, war goals, and i'm deeply troubled to to pose this question to you, dr. mads, but which doctors that you know of that israel has killed? whose expertise and experience are nearly irreplaceable, especially within such a time
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frame, and what are the repercussions of decimating an entire health system in this way? i mean, we don't have many precedents that we can compare this to. this week on expose, the israeli entity assault on rafah was depicted as successful rescue operation, masking its true nature as a direct attack on one of the few remaining safe zones for palestinian civilians in gaza. within zianist israeli media circles, prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been accused of deceat regarding his claims of targeting
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hamas and freeing all hostages. moreover, a staggering 97% of arab respondents. reported experiencing psychological distress during the gaza conflict with 92% expressing the belief that the palestinian cause is not solarly a concern for palestinians but for all arabs. expose: the truth is just a revelation away. in this week's episode of erontic we're finally stepping inside the tehran research reactor, we've already featured some of the radio isotopes that have been produced here, but now we're taking a closer look at what happens inside the core of the reactor and how we procure the fuel for the reactor.
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don't miss it. your headlines here on press tv. as is really genociding gaza enters it's 141st day killing and destruction campaign. against palestinians continues with the death tool now nearing 30,000. meanwhile, palestinian resistance fighters presist battling israely occupation forces and gaza inflicting heavy losses on invading troops and yemenes hold yet another massive rally in solidarity with palestinians.