My name is Feroze Sidhwa. I’m a trauma surgeon in California. I worked in the Gaza Strip in March and April of 2024. What I saw there is indescribable, a massive military assault directed at a civilian population, half of whom are children. Widespread malnutrition caused by a deliberate policy of starvation. Small children shot in the head or chest. An entire society almost destroyed, all with the help of our tax dollars and the US government’s bombs and diplomatic support. There is something truly perverse about trying to save a child who has been shredded to pieces by a bomb I paid for. Oh, and last week Israel banned the organization that sent me to Gaza, the Palestinian American Medical Association, from providing aid to Gaza.
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