Ghassan Abu Sitta
@GhassanAbuSitt1
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Plastic Surgeon. Prof. of Conflict Medicine, American University of Beirut. RTs are not endorsements https://t.co/8LVO3ySJTZ
Joined May 2017
I left Gaza yesturday. My heart and my soul are still there with my patients. I remember their names and their wounds. I will fight until they receive the treatment they need and the justice they deserve. My heart is broken in ways I never knew was possible.
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Our sleeping quarters. I think the sound of newborn babies from the ceasarian sections done in the OR filled the air with the optimism of a new tomorrow. Laughter heard amongst the staff for the first time in a long while.
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Gone is a genocidal president too hypocritical to admit it. And in comes a genocidal president who wears it as a badge of honor.
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Israel tortures a child in prison to death. AP can't even say that.
A teenager from the West Bank who was held in an Israeli prison for six months without being charged died after collapsing in unclear circumstances, becoming the first Palestinian under 18 to die in Israeli detention, officials said.
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I am at Charles De Gaule airport. They are preventing me from entering France. I am supposed to speak at the French Senate today. They say the Germans put a 1 year ban on my entry to Europe.
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This is the CT facial bones of a 13 year old with a blast injury. The lower jaw is splayed open. This is Israel.
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Israel has killed 13,022 Palestinian children. In just 111 days.
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Last photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh as he walked towards the Israeli tank .
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We believe in life. Even in the midst of all of this death. May he see better days and grow up to be a free man.
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When your surgical priorities on a beautiful 13 year old girl include reconstucting her eyelids so she can fit a prosthetic eye. a part of you dies. Israel's war on children
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Amputated the arm and leg of a 6 year old girl. Then had to tell her mother.
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This shrapnel went in through the back of an 11 year old and perforated his bowels. 2 hr surgery
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Finished operating with my colleagues on a 4 year old with a fractured thigh bone and multiple severed tendons in the hand. Maybe the German Foreign Minister can explain to him why it is necessary for him to go through life with these injuries and a dead mother and 2 siblings.
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Rest in peace my friend. Tamer was one of the kindest people I had worked with. He was a nurse at the Burns Unit at Shifa hospital. He was killed along with his brother when his house was bombed by the Israelis
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Yesturday I was able to hold my boys, smell them and watch them argue. My hearts aches for those parents who can no longer do that and for those kids who no longer have someone to hold them.
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Vinegar from the corner shop to treat pseuodomonas bacterial wound infections. Its come to that.
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Last night was difficult. Exhausted to the point of pain but I couldnt sleep till the early hours of the morning. It rained at 8:30 am cleared the smoke from the air and the sky was beautiful. I was able to operate on a 5 year old with a nasty foot injury. Today is a new day.
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Shifa hospital has collapsed. Wounded and staff leaving in droves. Missile attacks this morning on outpatient dept. which housed internally displaced.
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Invited to address a conference in Berlin about my work in Gaza hospitals during the present conflict. The German government has forcibly prevented me from entering the country.Silencing a witness to genocide before the ICJ adds to Germany's complicity in the ongoing massacre.
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1 in every 200 people in Gaza has been killed. In 40 days.
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No longer able to provide surgeries at Ahli Hosp. The hospital is now effectively a first aid station. Hundreds of wounded now at hospital with no access to surgery. They will die from their wounds.
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13 year old boy with full thickness burns in all of his face and his upper limbs. His older brothers were trying to keep him calm by telling that all he needed were some creams and he will be alright. He will not be alright.
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They killed my friend and colleague Dr Ahmad Maqadmeh at Shifa Hospital. A beautifull soul and a great surgeon. We worked together in the Great Marches of Return and the 2021 war and then this recent war. His dedication was unlike anything I have ever seen. We will never forgive.
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You made this day possible. Those who gave up their lives and those who gave up their freedom. You have changed the meaning of dedication above and beyond the call of duty. May your glorious memory live on as the brightest of the night stars.
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I moved to Al Ahli hospital to help out. The Israelis have just hit the Ahli hospital.
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I will continue to tell the world about Anas my 13 year old patient burnt to death, Dareen the 9 year old who's foot was amputated. I will tell the world how brilliant and dedicated Dr Ahmad Maqadmeh was and how he chose to stay at Shifa hospital with his patients.
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British counter terrorism police has showed up at my house in the UK and harrased my family.
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It seems that Palestinians were making too much noise while they were being butchered. It offended the refined sensiblilities of Israel's Western backers. So they cut off all communication and silienced us. Brown people are so messy when are being slaughtered. Very uncouth.
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An Israeli sniper shot my friend Dr Mohammad Obaid. Amazing man worked at Al Awda; then Shifa and stayed throughout it seige; then Indonesian Hospital until it fell and back to Al Awda hospital where he was injured this morning. This was when we were at Shifa few weeks back
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100 Israeli doctors sign a petition calling for the destruction of all hospitals in Gaza. Lovely people with great colleagiate attitude. They must have taken the same Hippocratic oath as Harold Shipman.
100 طبيب في اسرائيل يطالبون الجيش الاسرائيلي بقصف المستشفيات في غزة وتفجيرها باعتبارها بنية تحتية لحركة حماس . وجاء في الرسالة " من يخلط بين المستشفيات والارهاب لا مكان آمن له" وتكمل الجملة باستخدام كاتبها لمصطلح توراتي اذ يقول " لا يمكن التمسك بقرون مذبح* المستشفيات، تخلق
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My first surgery yesturday after I managed to pull myself together after the night before, was on a 5 year old girl who's mother and sister were killed. She had massive wounds in her arm. She looked so frail and so alone. How many times can your heart break.
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News that Israeli soldiers have entered Shifa Hospital. Israel declares victory over a hospital. Settler necropolitics at its most monstrous.
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We have received over 20 chest and neck gundshot wounds fired from Israeli Quadcopter drones. This is a low flying sniper drone. When it comes to killing they are so innovative.
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These monsters manufacture the Quadcopter drone with a sniper gun. One night we had 30 injuries when they were sent to shoot at people trying to get to Ahli hospital. One was a 9 year boy shot in the neck. He bled-out in the ER. Germany hasn't banned them from Europe
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BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.
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Israelis increasingly using phosphorus bombs. Treated a 13 year old yesturday with distinctive phosphorus burns to both legs and thighs.
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I am at Charles De Gaule airport. O was supposed to speak in tge French parliament. They are preventing me from entering France. They say the Germans put a 1 year ban on my entry to Europe.
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Israel fears Palestinian children. They represent the Palestinian tomorrow and are therfore a mortal threat to the Zionist project. That is why Israel has intensionally targeted children in its genocidal war.
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There no lonier place in this universe than around the bed of a wounded child who has no more family to look aftervthem.
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We have run out of burns dressings. We have more than 70 wounded with burns covering more than 40% of their body surface. 80% are children.
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Defunding UNRWA in the midst of the carnage constitutes "complicity" in genocide.
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500 bodies brought to Shifa from last night's bombing of Beach camp.
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After his last surgery Annas was thirsty. I got him some water and helped him drink. That will be my lasting memory of him. The boy was thirsty in his last moments.
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The massacre in Jabalya camp has wiped out several blocks with ×6 1 tonne bombs. More than 500 killed.
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The hospitals, because of the seige, are so short of supplies that we had to clean a teenage girl with 70% body surface burns with regular soap because the hospital is out of chlorehexidine (antiseptic).
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Happy sweet 16 my most beautifull boy. We will celebrate soon.
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There are 120 "Wounded Child with no Surviving Family" currently at Shifa hospital. These are the ones without even distant relatives surviving.
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The Israelis have opened fire on ambulances taking the wounded on the coastal road to Rafah for evacuation.
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2055 children killed in 16 days. Quite an Israeli achievement.
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With the collapse of all 4 pediatric hospitals, children with chronic illnesses do not have access to specialist medical care. We have had children with diabetes, asthma and autoimmune disease seek medical care at the ER at Al Ahli.
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The Israelis killed our colleague and our Dr Midhat Saidam with 30 of his family members when they targeted their home. He was a great Plastic surgeon and a lovely man. I have known since the 2009 war. We worked together in the 2014.
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Last night Israel killed 80 children in 51 minutes.
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As it was in Ireland, the Americas, Africa or India, engineering famine in Gaza is a critical component of colonial genocide.
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Biden normalized genocide. Trump normalized ethnic cleansing. Palestinians normalized anti-colonial resistance.
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Israel killed Dr Adnan Bursh, head of orthopedic surgery at Shifa in prison. Taken hostage from Al Awda Hospital. Tortured to death by Israeli army in their secret detension sites. He was a great surgeon, full of life. Trained at King's College Hospital.
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May the souls of the slain children of Sharpville and Soweto and the children of Jabalya, Beach Camp, Khan Younis and Shijaiya watch over you as you fight so that they may get justice.
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Imagine, just for a moment, that it was Iran or Russia who killed 7 international aid workers.
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She is 12 and likes to be called by her nickname Jiji. She has a huge chunk of her forearm missing. Like a shark bite. She will need major reconstructive surgery, repeatidly for years to come.
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Over 467 days Israel killed 16% of Gaza's population.
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The scale of the carnage is reshaping Palestinian society as we speak. Middle age grandparents caring for the orphaned toddlers of their slain children.
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My friend Dr Adnan Al-Bursh was beaten to death by the Israeli prison guards.
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I will not stop speaking out on behalf of my patients and bearing witness to the crimes that are being commited.
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Any country or institution not imposing sanctions on Israel is complicit.
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11 surgeries back to back today.11 broken bodies.11 shattered lives.11 stories of heartbreak, sorrow and grief over loved ones slain.11 Palestinians betrayed by a humanity that sides with powerfull against the rightious.11 unknown futures without loved ones.
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We have run out of blood at Al Ahli hosital. Our wounded are dieing after surgery because we cant transfuse them.
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All across the Gaza Strip there are thousands of wounded with no access to treatment. Now there are no more hospitals in Gaza City and a single hospital in the whole of the northern part of the strip many of them will die of these wounds. If not most.
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Release Dr Mohammad Abu Silmiyah, Medical Director of Shifa Hospital. Arrested by the Israeli army.
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Al Shifa Hospital constituted 30% of the capacity of the health system in the Gaza Strip. The Israelis have blown up or torched all its buildings to ensure that it is irreprable and needs to be rebuilt from scratch. The aim was and remains making Gaza uninhabitable. Genocide.
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Keir Starmer will go down in history as first Human Rights lawyer to become complicit in genocide. Quite an accomplishment for an otherwise insignificant servant of power.
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In an act of utter vindictiveness the french authorities are denying me access to an earlier flight and insisting on sending me on the last flight back late night to London.
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In awe and admiration of the health professionals in Gaza. Nurses and doctors joining any hospital they have access to. Only leaving work to ensure their families have what they need and then coming back to work. They sleep, eat and work sometimes in the same building for days.
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492 killed and 1645 wounded in one day in Lebanon. Killed by Israel.
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On a particularly difficult night I had to perform amputations on the arm and leg of a 3 year old boy who was the sole survivor of his family.
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Please amplify this plea by Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh's family for his release.
We, the family of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, urgently appeal to the international community to act immediately for his release. Detained by Israeli occupation forces while performing his humanitarian duty, he now suffers severe mistreatment in Sde
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The wounded are no longer being treated for their injuries. They are being stabalised the best they could. Delayed treatment, especially in children, leads to delayed reconstruction and eventually increased disability.
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First 2 cases of the day. A 2 year old boy needing reconstruction of his foot and an 8 year old girl needing a partial amputation of her foot. My soul aches.
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This is the man who killed or ordered the killing of the child Hind Rajab.
🚨 Breaking:.The #HindRajabFoundation files complaint against Lt. Colonel Beni Aharon, responsible for the murder of Hind Rajab. Today should’ve been Hind's 7th birthday. After a year of research, we’ve identified the commander, the brigade and the battalion who killed her. More
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Having defeated hospitals and universities, the Israeli army declares its victory over a tent.
Tanks of the Zionist entity opening fire on tents of displaced Palestinians in Rafah. Utter evil.
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2665 children killed. 2665 cheeky smiles, 2665 dreams of tomorrow, 2665 favourite cartoon characters, 2665 favourite meals. 2665 someone's everything.
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The genocidal murderers just killed him. He can now be with his beloved
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In addition to the slaughter, Israel and its western allies are building the physical and logistical infrastructure for the longterm strangulation of life (food, fuel, medication etc) in the while of the Gaza Strip with aim of maximising expulsion of Palestinians.
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Saw multiple cases of acute malnutrition and dehydration in young children.
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Israel has just assasinated 4 western aid workers, one of whom a UK citizen in Gaza. Will the spineless Sunak or the souless Starmer open their mouthes.
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13 year old Annas is the age of my youngest boy. He sustained severe burns to his face and his limbs. Today Annas passed away. He was murdered by the Israeli killing machine. May god have mercy on our souls for tolerating a world where this can be done to a boy his age. No words.
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The judges of the ICC bear personal and collective responsibilty for the ongoing genocide in northern Gaza.
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Israel repeated the pattern of attack that it perpitrated against Shifa hospital but this morning against Nussre hospital, the children's hospital. A missle fired at the busy entrance of the hospital.
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Gaza is the center of the universe.Gaza is the soul of the soul.Gaza is where we defeated the American empire's attempt to wipe us out as a people.
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Remembering our 2 Plastic surgery colleagues killed by Israel. Dr Ahmad Makadmeh and Dr Midhat Saidam. They were amongst 950 health workers murdered in the genocide by Israel.
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Um Mohammad, our senior nurse, just found out, while she was at work, that her husband and 2 sons have been killed when their home was bombed.
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Fortress Europe silencing the witnesses to the genocide while Israel kills them in prison.
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