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‘It reminded me of Hiroshima’: Surgeon tells UK parliament
Nizam Mamode, a British professor of transplant surgery, held back tears while telling a British parliamentary committee about his experience volunteering at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip for one month.
Mamode told the International Development Committee that when he arrived in Gaza, his convoy drove through a landscape that reminded him of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for about 20 minutes.
“Buildings reduced to rubble for miles around as far as you can see, nothing growing, no people, a few looters here and there, but nothing,” he said.
After that, he said he reached an area where about 1.3 million people were living in tents or under shelters made of “pieces of carpet and plastic stuck onto sticks”.
“There’s no running water, no sanitation, no electricity, obviously, and people are having to roll those up and move on at very, very short notice, time and time again. Most people have moved six or seven times,” he said.
Surgeon says he treated children shot by Israeli drones in Gaza
Here’s more from Mamode’s testimony at the British parliament.
The surgeon said many of his memories from his time in Gaza are of drone attacks. “You have this constant whine, which is psychologically, very affecting, because it represents danger and it’s constantly there,” Mamode told the International Development Committee.
“Those drones are surveillance drones, but they are also drones that shoot people regularly. “What I think I found particularly disturbing was that a bomb would drop, maybe on a crowded, tented area, and then the drones would come down and ‘pick off’ civilians.
“The bullets that the drones fire are these small cuboids. And I fished a number of those out of the abdomen of small children,” he said.
