Gaza: US doctor at bombed hospital says “the world doesn’t seem to care”

Doctors in Gaza have been “abandoned by the world” as they continue to struggle to provide basic healthcare amid renewed Israeli airstrikes, a lack of staff and supplies, and under threat of violence and death, a US doctor working at the recently bombed Nasser Hospital has said.

Feroze Sidhwa, US trauma surgeon who is volunteering in Gaza with MedGlobal, told a press conference on 26 March that the horrors he has witnessed since entering Gaza on 6 March far exceed anything he has seen during his humanitarian career, including during his three stints in Ukraine since the Russian invasion.

“Doctors feel alone. They feel abandoned by the world, and I think rightly so. When Russia bombs a children’s hospital in Kiev, everybody loses their mind, and rightly so,” Sidhwa said. “But what’s going on here is far more severe and they see that the world, and especially the West, just doesn’t seem to care and actually, more so than the attack, I think that’s what’s hurting.”

Sidhwa said that many medical staff are being denied entry to Gaza, describing how three of the five doctors on his mission were not allowed entry at the last minute.

Since 2 March Israel has banned the entry of all humanitarian aid and supplies into Gaza, a move that means any “gains made during the ceasefire to support survivors have …