{"id":164623,"date":"2014-07-21T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/letter-from-gaza-by-a-norwegian-doctor\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:00:17","slug":"letter-from-gaza-by-a-norwegian-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/letter-from-gaza-by-a-norwegian-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Gaza by a Norwegian doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/dr-mads-frederick-gilbert-at-al-shifa-hospital-on-jul-17-treating-a-wounded-palestinian-child-adter-an-israeli-air-strike-killed-4-children-and-wounded-5-others\/\" alt=\"Dr. Mads Frederick Gilbert at Al-Shifa hospital on Jul.17, treating a wounded Palestinian child adter an Israeli air strike killed 4 children and wounded 5 others\" class=\"wp-image-11707\"\/><figcaption>\n    Dr. Mads Frederick Gilbert at Al-Shifa hospital on Jul.17, treating a wounded Palestinian child adter an Israeli air strike killed 4 children and wounded 5 others<br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  We present you a letter written by Norwegian doctor who is currently in Gaza helping wounded at the local hospital. This if first hand evidence of what is happening on the ground.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dearest friends,\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The last night was extreme. The &#8220;ground invasion&#8221; of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying &#8211; all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza&#8217;s hospitals are working 12-24 hour shifts, grey from fatigue and inhuman workloads (without payment all in Shifa for the last 4 months), they care, triage, try to understand the incomprehensible chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not bleeding humans. HUMANS!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Now, once more treated like animals by &#8220;the most moral army in the world&#8221; (sic!).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  My respect for the wounded is endless, in their contained determination in the midst of pain, agony and shock; my admiration for the staff and volunteers is endless, my closeness to the Palestinian &#8220;sumud&#8221; gives me strength, although in glimpses I just want to scream, hold someone tight, cry, smell the skin and hair of the warm child, covered in blood, protect ourselves in an endless embrace &#8211; but we cannot afford that, nor can they.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ashy grey faces &#8211; Oh NO! Not one more load of tens of maimed and bleeding, we still have lakes of blood on the floor in the ER, piles of dripping, blood-soaked bandages to clear out &#8211; oh &#8211; the cleaners, everywhere, swiftly shoveling the blood and discarded tissues, hair, clothes, cannulas &#8211; the leftovers from death &#8211; all taken away &#8230; to be prepared again, to be repeated all over. More then 100 cases came to Shifa in the last 24 hrs. Enough for a large well trained hospital with everything, but here &#8211; almost nothing: no electricity, water, disposables, drugs, OR-tables, instruments, monitors &#8211; all rusted and as if taken from museums of yesterday&#8217;s hospitals. But they do not complain, these heroes. They get on with it, like warriors, head on, enormously resolute.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And as I write these words to you, alone, on a bed, my tears flow, the warm but useless tears of pain and grief, of anger and fear. This is not happening!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An then, just now, the orchestra of the Israeli war-machine starts its gruesome symphony again, just now: salvos of artillery from the navy boats just down on the shores, the roaring F16, the sickening drones (Arabic &#8216;Zennanis&#8217;, the hummers), and the cluttering Apaches. So much made in and paid by the US.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr. Obama &#8211; do you have a heart?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  I invite you &#8211; spend one night &#8211; just one night &#8211; with us in Shifa. Disguised as a cleaner, maybe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  I am convinced, 100%, it would change history.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nobody with a heart AND power could ever walk away from a night in Shifa without being determined to end the slaughter of the Palestinian people.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But the heartless and merciless have done their calculations and planned another &#8220;dahyia&#8221; onslaught on Gaza.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The rivers of blood will keep running the coming night. I can hear they have tuned their instruments of death.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Please. Do what you can. This, THIS cannot continue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mads Gilbert MD PhD\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    Professor and Clinical Head<br \/>\n  <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <i><br \/>\n    Clinic of Emergency Medicine<br \/>\n  <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <i><br \/>\n    University Hospital of North Norway<br \/>\n  <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  See more at: http:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/articles\/middle-east\/12920-letter-from-gaza-by-a-norwegian-doctor#sthash.AnGP7xS0.dpuf\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Source:<br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/articles\/middle-east\/12920-letter-from-gaza-by-a-norwegian-doctor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    MEMO Middle East Monitor<br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mads Frederick Gilbert at Al-Shifa hospital on Jul.17, treating &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Letter from Gaza by a Norwegian doctor\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/letter-from-gaza-by-a-norwegian-doctor\/#more-164623\" aria-label=\"Read more about Letter from Gaza by a Norwegian doctor\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Letter from Gaza by a Norwegian doctor - MEYDAN.TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/letter-from-gaza-by-a-norwegian-doctor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letter from Gaza by a Norwegian doctor - MEYDAN.TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Mads Frederick Gilbert at Al-Shifa hospital on Jul.17, treating ... 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