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The Guilty Feminist

Emergency Episode: Gaza nurse Alaa Al-ghoul

The Guilty Feminist

The Spontaneity Shop

Comedy, Feminism

4.812.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Deborah Frances-White in conversation with Gaza nurse Alaa Al-ghoul

Recorded 24 May 2025. Released 28 May

The Guilty Feminist theme composed by Mark Hodge.

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0:00.0

Hello, guilty feminists. This is a special emergency episode about the situation in Gaza.

0:06.3

I was privileged enough to talk to Al-Aha Ahul, who is a nurse in Gaza at the moment.

0:11.7

She's living in a tent and doing what she can without medical supplies in a makeshift hospital.

0:18.0

I'll tell you it's a sad episode and it made me cry, but we need to bear witness.

0:22.3

And she also talks about what she wants. She's made of some stern stuff, but it's really hard

0:29.2

to understand how any human being can go through what she's going through now. Please listen,

0:35.7

please share. It was recorded over Zoom and as you can imagine, the internet in Gaza is not great at the moment.

0:41.2

So if it sometimes cuts out and there's a little trouble with sound quality, please be

0:45.1

understanding. Thank you so much for joining us on The Guilty Feminist.

1:12.7

Can you please say your name and also what you do in Gaza?

1:19.2

Okay.

1:20.3

Hello everyone.

1:21.6

I am Al-Alah Al-Gul and I charge nurses work at the Uribe and Gaza Hospital.

1:29.0

I witnessed the bombing that happened 13 May 25.

1:37.4

And also I lived several wars in Gaza.

1:51.0

So this day I am working ICU nurse in the hospital.

1:58.8

That must be incredibly traumatic to work as an ICU nurse right now. Can you tell us about the situation there what you're seeing, what you're experiencing?

2:03.6

I want to explain everything from the beginning of the war now.

2:08.5

The beginning of the war, I worked alone in ICU department.

2:14.6

We opened in the European Gaza Hospital, five ICU departments. Unfortunately,

2:21.7

we lack of, this time, we have a lot of problems like lack and shortage of steam.

2:32.0

And I worked alone in the

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