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Just Back from Gaza, American Surgeon Dr. Irfan Galaria Describes "Crisis of an Unimaginable Scale"

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Irfan Galaria, an American doctor just back from Gaza, he describes operating on patients while bombs were dropping around the hospital and says he saw many orphaned children.

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

This is democracy now, Democracy Now.

0:14.7

The War and Peace Report.

0:16.7

I'm Amy Goodman with Juan Gonzalez.

0:19.0

We continue now with part two of our conversation with Dr. Irfan Galaria. He's a plastic and

0:25.1

reconstructive surgeon who just spent 10 days in Gaza with the humanitarian

0:31.1

aid group Med Global.

0:33.2

He wrote a piece for the Los Angeles Times when he returned headlined,

0:37.6

I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza.

0:40.3

What I saw wasn't war, it was annihilation.

0:43.8

Thank you so much, Doctor, for staying with us.

0:46.4

I was wondering if you can talk about where you worked at the European Gaza Hospital.

0:52.1

In your piece, you you write a hospital designed to accommodate

0:56.0

about 300 patients was now struggling to care for more than a thousand

1:00.9

patients and hundreds more seeking refuge.

1:04.6

Set the scene for us.

1:07.6

Absolutely, Amy.

1:09.4

I've worked and lived in the European Gaza Hospital.

1:14.2

I spent about eight or nine days there,

1:17.1

and I slept on the operating room floor

1:19.6

in the holding area, because there's

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