PLEASE ANY HUMAN WITH A HEART PLEASE READ!
Letter from Norwegian hero doctor who is in Gaza right now
Dr. Mads Gilbert MD PhD
Dearest friends -
The last night was extreme. The "ground invasion" of Gaza resulted in
scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying -
all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all
innocent.
The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza's
hospitals are working 12-24hrs 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!
Now, once more treated like animals by "the most moral army in the world" (sic!).
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 "sumud" 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 - but we cannot afford that,
nor can they.
Ashy grey faces - 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 - oh - the
cleaners, everywhere, swiftly shovelling the blood and discarded
tissues, hair, clothes,cannulas - the leftovers from death - all taken
away...to be prepared again, to be repeated all over.
More then
100 cases came to Shifa last 24 hrs. enough for a large well trained
hospital with everything, but here - almost nothing: electricity, water,
disposables, drugs, OR-tables, instruments, monitors - all rusted and
as if taken from museums of yesterdays hospitals.But they do not
complain, these heroes. They get on with it, like warriors, head on,
enormous resolute.t
And as I write these words to you, alone, on a
bed, my tears flows, the warm but useless tears of pain and grief, of
anger and fear. This is not happening!
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 'Zennanis', the
hummers), and the cluttering Apaches. So much made and paid in and by
US.
Mr. Obama - do you have a heart?
I invite you - spend one night - just one night - with us in Shifa. Disguised as a cleaner, maybe.
I am convinced, 100%, it would change history.
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.
But the heartless and merciless have done their calculations and planned another "dahyia" onslaught on Gaza.
The rivers of blood will keep running the coming night. I can hear they have tuned their instruments of death.
Please. Do what you can. This, THIS cannot continue.
Mads
Gaza, Occupied Palestine
Mads Gilbert MD PhD
Professor and Clinical Head
Clinic of Emergency Medicine
University Hospital of North Norway
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