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IrishBubbaLiberal

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3. More context to the horrors done by Israel Govt.....
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:42 PM
Apr 2025

….“The department was so full that it spilled out on to the streets and we were cutting people’s chests open to put in chest drains in the streets,” he says.

“Because I am 6’2” and about 18 stone I ended up just carrying two or three people at a time on my back, on my chest, carrying them and just running to the CT scanner to get people in.”

His eyewitness testimony from inside the hospital went viral online. He has learned that the organisation he volunteered for feared the attention he received would get him killed.

“They actually prepared a press release of my death and they showed it to me a couple of days ago,” he says.

More than 400 aid workers have been killed in Gaza, with Médecins Sans Frontières saying Israel has turned the territory “into a mass grave of Palestinians and those coming to their assistance”.

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