Summary
Gaza nephrologist whose testimony (26 October 2023) opens Chapter 6, “We have lost the ability to provide true care”, of From the River to the Sea. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike on 11 November 2023, as the testimony’s closing line and the editors’ note on contributors in Gaza record (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, lines 244-250, 435-454).
Details
- He left Gaza for fourteen years to obtain the degrees and certification for nephrology, a specialty he chose because there was a need for it, and returned to a shocking lack of resources: shortages of vital medications, labs and instruments even before the war (line 448).
- Since the war, dialysis sessions are cut in half, medications are completely unavailable, decisions are made on hunches without labs, and a resuscitation was stopped because no ventilator could follow it (line 450).
- “We have to prioritize patients who are younger, healthier. We have lost the ability to provide true care.” (line 450)
- “We are being eradicated en masse.” (line 452)
Related pages
From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Gaza, Genocide, Jewish Currents