British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who has been working in Gaza, has called for a ceasefire and the opening of a humanitarian corridor and told CGTN “Israel has killed over 540” medics in the conflict.
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00:00I think the fact that the genocide is still going on for now a year is testament to the failure of whatever was left of international law, whatever was left of Western morality.
00:17It's a testament of the fact that the powers that control this war and that feed it with the weapons that maintain it are able to ensure that it continues for a year, well beyond our worst nightmare.
00:34This is continuing on, and with no end in sight. Now, actually, Israel has expanded its war into Lebanon, and we're watching the second chapter of this genocidal war starting to unfold here.
00:50One thing that I would like to ask you is about the children. You've treated many children, a lot of them which unfortunately have lost their lives, but a lot of them that you were able to help, they are now orphaned.
01:03There are around 22,000 to 26,000 orphaned children in Gaza. A lot of them have been injured in addition to losing their parents, have been left with permanent disability, because you need to understand, those who are killed and wounded in Gaza are killed in their homes.
01:25When a parent is killed, it usually means the children are also wounded. The children that we brought from Gaza to Lebanon to treat, all of them have lost one or two parents, and the surviving parents were injured.
01:39And so the long-term legacy of this war, in terms of mental health scars, in terms of the social, the destruction of the social fabric of the Palestinian society in Gaza, is going to be felt for generations to come.
01:56What would you say that right now, people that are practicing medicine and helping people in Gaza need immediately?
02:05What we need is for a ceasefire and a humanitarian corridor. What is left of the health system is 10% of its capacity. Israel has killed over 540 health professionals, over 120 senior doctors at consultant level have been killed.
02:25There was a calculation that your chances of being killed in Gaza, if you're a health professional, is twice that of any other profession. So it is obvious that Israel was targeting health professionals.
02:36What they need is an end to this genocide and a humanitarian corridor that allows medicines, consumables, fuel for the hospitals, so that they can treat their patients.