This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

As we continue now with part two of our interview with Dr. Mads Gilbert.

He's an Norwegian physician specializing in anesthesiology and emergency medicine.

He's a professor at the Arctic University of Norway.

Dr. Gilbert has been working with Palestinians for 30 years.

He's been in Gaza there during all the major bombardments in 2006 and 2009, 2012, 2014.

Delivering life, saving trauma, care, emergency medicine, mainly at the largest Gaza hospital

of Shifa, but also in Al-Quds hospital that the Israeli military is saying must be evacuated

immediately.

Dr. Gilbert is currently with an emergency medical team supported by the Norwegian government.

He's in Cairo, Egypt, where they have waited for over two weeks to enter Gaza.

Dr. Gilbert, see author of several books on Gaza, including Eyes in Gaza and Night in Gaza.

Thank you for staying with us, Dr. Gilbert, for this continuation of our interview.

I ended the last part of the interview by asking you why it's so important for you to go

to Gaza.

You were just in Gaza a few months ago.

Talk about what you did there then and why now, with this total siege of Gaza.

Thank you, Amy.

Thank you for having me.

Why go to Gaza now?

Well, it's very simple.

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