Testimonies of Canadian, British, US, Irish, other physicians, medical staff and nurses, eyewitnesses to Gaza genocide
Tuesday, November 26, 2024: Canadian healthcare workers who have returned from Gaza to hold a press conference at Parliament Hill demanding Canada take meaningful action against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 11:00am. Room 135B West Block, Parliament Hill.
27 Nov 2024: Dr. Yara Abou-Hamde who is a member of @HA4Palestine speaks about how we all must refuse to be silent. “We owe it to our colleagues in Gaza to listen to their voices and to the testimonies of Canadian healthcare workers who were recently there and then to act accordingly.”From Turtle Island to Palestine, genocide is a crime. We refuse to remain silent, and we refuse to allow Canadian complicity, support, and active involvement in this genocide to continue.
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan’s testimony@BenNephrology reminds media about the importance of calling it a genocide.Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo who has been running medical delegations via @Glia_Intl under the @WHO Emergency Medical Team system since January this year, speaks about the unjust limitations Israel puts on aid workers and the catastrophic conditions in Gaza amounting to genocide.
November 26:Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo @Dotty_dot_dot , Dr. Yipeng Ge @yipengGe , Dr. Rizwan Minhas (IG doctor.rizwan), Dr. Yara Abou-Hamde, Dr. Noor Amin held press conference in Ottawa (IG EyewitnessGaza) We reported what we saw in Gaza = committing genocide 25 Dec 2024: American doctor Mimi Syed, an emergency physician, describes the catastrophic health conditions and malnutrition suffered by children in Gaza, witnessed during her second mission, due to the siege imposed by the occupation forces since the start of the ongoing genocide in the enclave.
23 Dec 2024: MSF International @MSF “I don’t think I have enough words to describe the cruelty that is happening.” Karin Huster is a nurse who worked in Gaza, Palestine, over 5 months. This is what she saw7 Jan 2025: Recent update from Dr. Mohamed Tahir, an American volunteer and nerve surgeon in Gaza, on the latest cases arriving at the hospital and the unfolding realities of the war as he witnesses them10 May 2025: ritish surgeon Tom Potokar who’s in Gaza, is treating the war wounded, trying to put together broken bodies torn apart by bombs. The Israeli air strikes have imposed a terrifying legacy with a huge number of amputees
Mads Gilbert: on the evil he has seen5 Jan 2025: @UNRWA “I’ve had a woman scream at me in absolute despair and horror because her son was killed in the strike in the so-called humanitarian zone. Her daughter was lying on the bed next to us, paralyzed”. Our @UNWateridge describes the devastating conditions in a hospital in #Gaza to Channel4.18 Jan 2025: Even after a ceasefire, ‘children in Gaza will continue to die from malnutrition’, says Louisa Baxter, a doctor working for Save the Children in Gaza. She’s currently stationed in Deir al Balah in central Gaza.
Dr. Permlutter testifies about a caseAn Israeli physician testifying to a Knesset meeting said that nobody should want any injured child to go without painkillers or health care. Lawmakers – from both ruling-party Likud and more far-Right parties -‘ responded furiously that they did in fact want to see Gazan children starved and tortured, as did ‘community leaders’ who were attending the Knesset meeting.
3 Jan 2025: Gaza Death Count WRONG: American Doc REVEALS HORRORS From Gaza Trip. American doctor returns from Gaza and tells @krystalball and @emilyjashinsky on @BreakingPointsN that: “In April, we saw a genocide. In November, it just seemed like a full-on Holocaust.”Listen to Razan [from Dr. Mads Gilbert]They target children! Listen to UK Dr. Rose on her work in Gaza. Dr. Mads27 March 2025: Dr Mark Perlmutter: “My colleague, a surgeon, had his fingers crushed by Israeli forces, was threatened with the gang rape of his wife, and was subjected to rectal probes soaked in pig’s blood” Via @zeteo_news2 May 2025: Johann Spischak@SDGMasterglass This won’t make mainstream media because they don’t want you to feel any kind of emotions for Palestinians or see how depraved Israelis are.
Dr. Samer Attar, an orthopaedic surgeon in Chicago, has volunteered in Gaza on 5 different occasions in the past 18 months
May 2025: physician testimony in protest at congress
May 2025: Nasser hospital…We also found ourselves at the edge of the evacuation order..Dr. Rosie in Gaza
Dr. Mohamed Taher, a volunteer in Gaza, shares a harrowing account of one of the countless tragic stories faced by children and residents in Gaza due to the Israeli bombing a story he personally witnessed, as documented in
28 May 2025: Canadian doctors returned from Gaza and are sharing what they witnessed and lived.28 May 2025: “My patients were 6 year olds with shrapnel in their heart and bullets in their brains, and pregnant women whose pelvises had been obliterated and their foetuses cut in two while still in the womb” @FerozeSidhwa addressing the UN security council today.
30 May 2025: @yipengGe I don’t know what to say anymore. As doctors, we can’t stop a genocide and we can’t end a famine. We provided a diagnosis – genocide. We provided a prescription to end the genocide – for Canada to end its complicity and direct involvement in Israel’s crimes now.
16 June 202516 June 2025: Orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, who is currently in Gaza and has recently had his Instagram account removed, speaks to CNN about media complicity when it comes to the genocide in Palestine. He was working in the same department at Nasser Hospital that was just bombed moments ago. Video: CNN 17 June 2025: “We just sat back and helplessly watched him die on the operating room table. And his brother was the same story. He could’ve been saved, but we didn’t have blood.” Dr. Attar, who volunteers in Gaza, couldn’t save two boys because of a blood shortage. https://cbsn.ws/44hY2CT18 June 2025: “This is the most horrific thing that most of us have any witnessed in our life times.. this is a live streamed genocide, there is no limit to the atrocities that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people”
4 June 2025: We’ve had an extortionate amount killed & wounded by the israelis, say doctors: it’s proof – the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is a firing squad17 June 2025: @drmimier who volunteered in Gaza says she was shocked when she was “met with skepticism about the actual bullet and it being authentic” when she went to politicians to tell them and show them that children were being sniped in Gaza. Video: @ajfaultlines
was running an operating list and everyday at least half of the people on it were under the age of 11.’ British surgeon Victoria Rose speaks about the cases she dealt with during her recent three weeks in Gaza.“No one on earth can accidentally shoot a child in the head.” – @willy_don19 sits with @aliahammuri and @ashraf.hammuri and discusses volunteering in Gaza. Make sure to watch this powerful episode on @aliahammuri link in bio See less
Last year Professor Mamode told MP’s what Israeli soldiers in Gaza did to healthcare workers when they invaded a hospital – they tied them up, put hoods over their heads, beat them, took some away, killed others, stripped the women.
Diagnosis: genocide
29 June 2025: @LBC ‘I realise it can make some media outlets nervous, but what we’re seeing here is genocide.’ James Smith, an emergency doctor who has worked in Gaza, says newborn babies dying of starvation is a ‘deliberate policy’ by Israel.
30 June 2025: @SaulStaniforth Hannah, a pediatric nurse: “A lady.. 30 wks pregnant, she came in after being in an explosion in her tent, & shrapnel.. cut through the unborn baby.. the baby had been cut through its abdomen & legs & did not survive”
2 July 2025: Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi ·The British Medical Association is severing ties with the Israeli Medical Association, and will work to get it removed from international forums. This could be the biggest win for the BDS movement in 25 years of operation. This is really huge