“You Need to Choose”: Dr. Mads Gilbert on Medical Solidarity with Gaza as Israel Targets Hospitals

Watch Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician specializing in anesthesiology and emergency medicine who has helped provide emergency trauma care in Gaza for over four decades and is now trying to enter the besieged territory from Egypt. “You need to choose” what side you are on in situations of injustice, he says. Gilbert describes medical solidarity work to support the Gazan medical staff in hospitals who are experts in mass casualties, and the impact of Israel cutting off water, medicine and communications. Gilbert is a professor at the University Hospital of North Norway and the Arctic University of Norway. He has been working with the Palestinians since 1981 and was in Gaza during past major bombardments in 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2014. He’s delivered life-saving trauma care emergency medicine, mainly in Al-Shifa Hospital, but also in al-Quds Hospital. Dr. Gilbert is currently with an emergency medical team supported by the Norwegian government in Cairo, Egypt, where they have waited for over two weeks to enter Gaza. He is the co-author of several books on Gaza, including Eyes in Gaza and Night in Gaza.

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