U.S. Doctor Returning From Gaza Describes Unforgettable Carnage

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🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The war in Gaza has been among the deadliest for civilians, including children, of any war in the 21st century. After spending five weeks volunteering and administering at a field hospital in Rafah, Mohammad Subeh, an American doctor, describes what he saw to Intercepted co-hosts Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain. Subeh spent weeks treating wounded Palestinian children, many of them orphaned by Israeli attacks. He also described treating those who survived the aftermath of “mass casualty incidents” in which dozens of civilians were killed or wounded; many of these attacks appeared deliberately targeted at civilians, Subeh says, rather than “indiscriminate.” As the Strip reels from the consequences of a breakdown of public health infrastructure following the destruction of most Gazan hospitals, Subeh says that ordinary civilians are paying a gruesome price for Israel's military assault.

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0:00.0	The This is intercepted. Welcome to Interceptcepted, I'm Jeremy Sgehill.
0:36.0	And I'm Martaza-Hossain.
0:38.0	Maiz, I want to start off the show.
0:39.0	We're going to be talking with a doctor who has just come back from Gaza. We're going to talk about his
0:44.8	experiences in a field hospital in Rafa near Khan Yunus in the north of
0:50.2	Rafa as Israel still threatens a full-scale invasion of Raffa.
0:55.0	But first, Maiz, you've been doing some reporting and writing about the recent events
1:00.0	between Israel and Iran, where the Iranian government launched a counter-strike on Israel in response
1:07.3	to the Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
1:13.4	Talk about these events and your analysis
1:16.7	of where things stand right now.
1:18.5	Since the start of the war in Gaza six or some months ago,
1:20.8	there's been always a fear that the war will expand beyond a
1:24.3	conflict between Israelis and Palestinians to include the broader region as well and
1:27.8	most prominently Iran. And now we're seeing the first steps towards that. Israel, as you mentioned, they blew up the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1st,
1:37.2	which is a very serious escalation because from legal purposes, consulate buildings count as
1:41.8	a territory of a sovereign territory of a state.
1:45.0	So Iran felt compelled to respond to this attack by similarly attacking Israeli territory, in this case,
1:51.0	actually firing ballistic missiles at Israel and drones.
1:54.7	It seems like the escalation or the response by Iran was calculated not to cause damage.
2:00.8	They telegraphed their intentions, several days advance both publicly and privately.
2:05.7	And yet it still represents the first time any state has fired missiles at Israel since Saddam
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