“In October 2023, while the world watched Gaza burn from their screens, one man walked into the inferno. A plastic surgeon who could have been earning millions on Harley Street instead chose to operate—43 days straight—under relentless bombardment. Sometimes without anesthesia. Sometimes sleeping on operating tables, wiped down with disinfectant. Today, that surgeon, now Rector of the University of Glasgow, joins us.”
His eyewitness testimony helped bring Gaza’s genocide case to the International Court of Justice. Germany banned him. France banned him. Pro-Israel groups attempted to end his medical career. His only ‘crime’: speaking out and bearing witness to the genocide in Gaza.
In Episode 62 of The Enlightenment Podcast, Hanan and Shamim are honored to be joined by Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, the British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon and one of the world’s leading experts in conflict medicine. Dr. Abu Sitta has worked in 12 war zones and, over the past two years, has become perhaps the most indispensable medical witness to Israel’s atrocities in Gaza.
This episode is a devastating, urgent, and necessary conversation about truth-telling under fire and the courage it takes to document a genocide in real time.
Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah's Work:
The Ghassan Abu-Sittah Children’s Fund → https://gascf.org/
American University of Beirut Global Health Institute → https://ghi.aub.edu.lb/
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