Within the Opinion video above, Dr. Samer Attar, an American surgeon from Chicago, exhibits us the unfathomable brutality of the warfare in Gaza. He was a member of the primary delegation of worldwide docs to embed within the northern a part of the territory this spring.
Over two weeks, Dr. Attar volunteered at native hospitals and filmed what he noticed. Al-Awda Hospital — one of many areas the place he labored — has been underneath siege since Sunday and lately ran out of consuming water, with workers members and sufferers trapped inside.
Dr. Attar’s video diaries seize the warfare’s toll on civilians and the battle amongst Palestinian medical employees to avoid wasting lives amid excessive shortages of important drugs, blood and fundamental provides in Gaza’s shattered well being care sector. As strain for a cease-fire mounts, Dr. Attar argues on this video that any settlement should embrace three concrete phrases to avoid wasting 1000’s of harmless lives in Gaza.
Viewer discretion is suggested: The video consists of graphic pictures of extreme accidents and struggling.
