Dearest friends - the hummers), and the cluttering The last night was extreme. The Apaches. So much made and paid in PERSONALITY and by US. “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in OF THE MONTH scores and carloads with maimed, torn What we found most devastating was apart, bleeding, shivering, dying - all when Dr. Gilbert addressed the US Dr. Mads Gilbert sorts of injured , all ages, President Barack Obama. We know all civilians, all innocent. that Obama is a war criminal and his hands are definitely soaked with Gaza’s The heroes in the ambulances and children blood. Even so, Dr. Gilbert does in all of Gaza’s hospitals are working not fail to try and reach the human side 12-24hrs shifts, grey from fatigue and A tribute by the TWiP Collective in each of us and makes a last call inhuman workloads (without payment out for what is left of a very shattered “I am not the hero. It’s the people of Photo by Oeystein Hermstad. all in Shifa for the last 4 months), they soul—even the US President who is Gaza and particularly the patients at care, triage, try to understand the aiding Israel unconditionally in its on- Al-Shifa Hospital who are the heroes.” incomprehensible chaos of bodies, going massacres: sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, A name and a face the people of Gaza Mr. Obama - do you have a heart? and all of Palestine have come to know languages, including Arabic. The breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not I invite you - spend one night - just one very well over the past few years. A second edition, published in 2012, bleeding humans. HUMANS! night - with us in Shifa. Disguised as a face many of them still remember, includes a powerful foreword by the Now, once more treated like animals cleaner, maybe. along with kind and assuring words American linguist and philosopher by “the most moral army in the world” in their hours of highest need. This Noam Chomsky. The book was an (sic!). I am convinced, 100%, it would change man is an example of what medicine immediate hit and became a bestseller history. Dr. Gilbert goes on to describe his and medical professionals are about; in . experiences in Al-Shifa Hospital in Nobody with a heart AND power could aspiring to show the most honourable Dr. Gilbert is not just a solidarity Gaza, and as difficult as it may be, he ever walk away from a night in Shifa side of what a human being is supposed without being determined to end the enthusiast, he’s also a brilliant does not fail to keep his professional to be and do. slaughter of the Palestinian people. physician. He once achieved what analysis of the situation. He provides For those who don’t know him, Mads was later defined as a “medical miracle” us with numbers and facts that we can But the heartless and merciless have Gilbert is a Norwegian doctor who has by reviving a clinically dead patient. use to face the Israeli propaganda that done their calculations and planned time and time again refused to stay in The patient was trapped for more than means to undermine the Palestinian another “dahyia” [victim] onslaught his safe workplace at the University an hour in icy water and it was the human value and distort what happens on Gaza. of Tromsø in Norway. Instead, he has dedication of Dr. Gilbert that revived on the ground: The rivers of blood will keep running travelled back and forth several times her from imminent death. This shows More than 100 cases came to Shifa the coming night. I can hear they have to aid in the continuing crisis in Gaza. a delicate and important link between last 24 hrs. enough for a large well tuned their instruments of death. being good at what you do and aspiring Fortunately, Dr. Gilbert has not been trained hospital with everything, but Please. Do what you can. This, THIS to make a difference in this world. alone all along. Until very recently, he here - almost nothing: electricity, cannot continue. was joined by Dr. Erik Fosse, another It’s also thanks to Dr. Gilbert’s political water, disposables, drugs, OR-tables, Mads Norwegian doctor who worked with efforts—which in his opinion goes instruments, monitors - all rusted and Dr. Gilbert in Al-Shifa Hospital in hand in hand with medicine—that as if taken from museums of yesterdays Gaza, Occupied Palestine 2009. Gilbert and Fosse both arrived Tromsø became a sister city to Gaza. hospitals. But they do not complain, At TWiP, we didn’t want to miss on emergency assignment for the This bond shows a different political these heroes. They get on with it, like the chance to salute the tireless Norwegian Aid Committee (NORWAC) perspective than Norway’s role in warriors, head on, enormous resolute. commitment of Dr. Gilbert, Dr. Fosse to help at Al-Shifa Hospital during the setting the scene for the now-obsolete and all the medical staff in the hospitals And then, just now, the orchestra of the Israeli massacres in Gaza in 2008-2009 Accords. in Gaza. It’s the work of humble and Israeli war-machine starts its gruesome (“Operation Cast Lead”), during which egoless souls that makes life—with Dr. Gilbert wrote a very passionate letter symphony again, just now: salvos of even foreign journalists were barred all its miseries—a bit more bearable. out of a moment of despair in one of artillery from the navy boats just down from entering the Gaza Strip. the darkest nights in the recent horrific on the shores, the roaring F16, the May our innocents in Gaza rest in They co-authored the book Eyes on nights in Gaza. It has since been shared sickening drones (Arabic ‘Zennanis’, peace. Gaza, which was translated into eight widely on social media.

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