The Tucker Carlson Show - Doctor From Gaza Frontlines Exposes Israeli Torture Programs and Missile Attacks on Hospitals

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

At some point every Holocaust museum will be forced to include an exhibit on what’s happening in Gaza right now. It’s only a matter of time. Dr. Nick Maynard of Oxford University medical school has been a witness to the genocide. (00:00) Monologue (24:06) Dr. Maynard’s Experience in Gaza and What He Saw (30:31) Israel’s Attacks on Gazan Healthcare Workers and Hospitals (41:03) How Many People Have Been Killed? (55:37) Hamas and How October 7th Affected Gaza (1:37:31) Are People in Israel Aware of What’s Happening in Gaza? (1:40:44) Are UK Politicians Willing to Do Something About This? Paid partnerships with: American Financing: NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org. APR for rates in the 5s start at 6.327% for well qualified borrowers. Call 800-685-5696 for details about credit costs and terms. Visit http://www.AmericanFinancing.net/Tucker. Dose: Daily supplements for the systems that support you. Use code TUCKER for 35% at https://dosedaily.co/tucker  Black Rifle Coffee: Promo code "Tucker" for 30% off at https://www.blackriflecoffee.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back in April of 1994, some of the worst atrocities of the modern era broke out in the landlocked central African country of Rwanda. To make a very complicated story short, the dominant tribe in Rwanda, the Hutu tribe, which controlled the government and had the majority of the population, for a bunch of different reasons, rose up under the direction of their leaders and attempted to exterminate the minority tribe in the nation called the Tutsis. and for a hundred days they did their best. They killed hundreds of thousands of them, more than half a million of them, many with machetes or burned alive or buried alive. And they raped even more than that. And not just raped,

but literally corralled AIDS patients in AIDS hospitals and sent them out to rape Tutsi women and to affect them with HIV, which they did. It was horrifying. And as the details of what happened during what is now referred to as the Rwandan genocide, filtered out to the rest of the world, people were stunned and nauseated by it

and really bewildered that something like this could happen. Not that long after the most famous genocide in history in the 1940s in Europe. To which we'd all said, well, that could never happen again. Well, it did. A version of it did happen in Rwanda in 1994. But what was even more distressing and in some way, shocking was that the world knew it was happening as it happened and did nothing to stop it.

And in most cases said nothing about it, even when it was in progress from the very beginning. Four days after the genocide of Rwanda started, a Swiss journalist in Kilgali, the Capitol, published a piece in a French newspaper saying, I have interviewed eight officials, and there's a genocide going on in Rwanda. This ran in a Western paper and then was picked up in other Western papers, but no one did anything. So the Red Cross knew it was happening. The UN knew it was happening. There were UN troops in Rwanda, the French government knew it was happening. There were French troops there. The nation of Israel knew it was happening. Israel had been a supporter of the Hutu government for decades. In fact, it seems pretty obvious that some of the bullets and grenades

used to murder Tutsis were sold to the Hutu government by the Israelis. And in fact, there's some evidence, apparently, that the Israeli government sold weapons to the Hutu government during the genocide, which were used to murder Tutsis. We say apparently because the documents surrounding this have been classified. They're under seal per orders of an Israeli court on the grounds that were they to become public. It would be bad for Israel's image globally. So the Israelis knew, and the Clinton administration famously knew it was happening. But for domestic political reasons, didn't act to stop it. So the lesson is something horrible.

In fact, genocide can happen. The world can know what's happening and allow it to happen. That's the lesson. And it's a lesson that a young Harvard law student called Samantha Power thought about a lot as she was getting her degree in Cambridge. How can a genocide take place within living memory of the Second World War and the civilized world does nothing about it? Well, in 2002, she published.

a book on that exact question. The book was called A Problem from Hell. He won the Pulitzer Prize and all kinds of other prizes. And Samantha Power's case was pretty simple. The world cannot allow genocide to happen again. If people find out this is happening, they have to act. That's the mark of civilization. Do you stop mass murder of civilians on ethnic grounds? Genocide. And if you don't, then you're not civilized. The United States, she wrote, has a moral obligation to interstate. intervene with force if it determines that a genocide is underway. What's the point of having the world's largest military if you can't at least try to prevent a genocide? Well, as noted, she was lauded for this. The book changed her life. She became one of the most famous people in the world. And in a fairly short period of time, a close advisor to then-Canada Barack Obama. He was elected in 2008 and promptly made her the chairman of the atrocity prevention board. You may not have known such a thing existed, but it does. It's an interagency group. It still exists. Name slightly different. But its purpose is in the name preventing atrocities, using the power of the U.S. government prevent atrocities.

Well, there weren't many well-publicized genocides during the first Obama term, but Samantha Power stuck around. She ended up teaching at Harvard Law School, and then Biden is elected or becomes president in 2020, and she goes back into the White House. At this point, she is the head of USAID, the United States Agency for International Development. She also has a seat on the National Security Council. She is a high-level foreign policy person in the Biden administration. Well, it just so happens that during her time there,

the thing that she warned about, wrote about, actually happened. Another genocide. This one took place in Gaza. The territory that Israel has controlled. formerly part of Egypt since 1967. And shortly after the attacks by Hamas into southern Israel in October of 2023, Israel decided to murder as many people as it possibly could in Gaza with the aim of getting

the entire population to leave Gaza so Israel could take over Gaza. Now, we're not guessing about this because Israeli officials said out loud, this is our plan. and then they tried to do it. Two interesting things. Samantha Power, famous for opposing genocide, said not a word about this. Of course, by this point, 30 years after the Rwandan genocide, Samantha Power's view of genocide appeared to have changed. So the way to fight genocide really was to empower women and girls in the LGBT community.

Fight the patriarchy. That's how you prevent genocide. But when an actual genocide occurred on her watch, as someone with his seat on the National Security Council, Samantha Power did and said nothing. She's now back at Harvard Law School, but she has actually been asked about this. You're the genocide lady, but you did nothing to stop genocide after writing a book, scolding the rest of us for doing nothing to stop genocide? Why is that?

She didn't respond well. I'm not here to answer questions like that, she said. You can look it up. It's an amazing exchange. What she did not say was, you're absolutely right. I wrote a book saying, the civilized world can't allow genocide to happen, and then I allowed it to happen. But that's exactly what she did. But what's even more interesting is that she's not alone in this.

Everybody knew from the first week after October 7th that Israel planned to commit genocide, traditionally defined genocide, targeting a population because of their bloodline and trying to exterminate or move them. everyone knew this because Israel announced it twice in October of 2003, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu said out loud in a public speech, the Palestinians are Amalek, Amalek, a reference that many in the West didn't get, but everyone in the region understood. And it's a reference to 1st Samuel 15, the first verses in it, which you should read, because it tells you a lot about what Israel is doing now. but those verses describe God's command to eliminate a tribe called the Amalekites. And not just the draft age men, but all of them, including children and infants.

All of them. Kill all of them. Destroy all of their property. Slay all of their animals. This is God's command. So when Benjamin Netanyahu describes the Palestinians as Amalek twice in the first month of the Gaza operation, you don't need to guess what the point of this is. The point is to destroy every man, woman and child, child and infant in Gaza. And they said about doing that. But it wasn't just Netanyahu who said that. It was a lot of different authorities in Israel. And in fact, as someone who's been keeping a list of this for a while, it might be worth reading them.

Just so everyone knows this is in blood libel. It is true on October 9th. So three days after the Hamas attacks, the defense minister of Israel, their own Pete Hegseth, described his plans for Gaza, not for Hamas, for the entire territory, for the over two million people who live there. And we're quoting, no electricity, no food will be allowed in. We are fighting human animals, not human beings, human animals. Well, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem that winter responded, not to say, whoa, whoa, settle down, defense minister,

calling your opponent's animals is, of course, genocidal talk. No, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem thought he didn't go far enough. And he said this, they're not human animals. They're not human beings. They are subhuman. And then he said that the Palestinians, Gaza should be buried alive with bulldozers, which some ultimately apparently were. Ben Gavir, Matt Brooks of the Republican Jewish Coalition, carpet bomb.

Cabinet ministers in Israel, supporters of Israel in the United States, making the same case in public from the very first day, kill indiscriminately, move them out. There were discussions on the American right, but what we should do with those Gazans, the people who live there. Move them to other countries, Egypt, maybe even the United States. Get them out. Kill enough of them that the rest leave.

The survivors want to flee. And so the aim was genocidal from the very first day. The Israelis announced it. Israel's supporters in the United States seconded it, amplified it. And members of the U.S. Congress on television, the people who are paying

for this genocide, announced proudly, that's right. the Israelis have every right to kill civilians, and that's why we are paying them and giving them weapons to do so. Watch this. I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians, as is frequently said. I don't think we would so lightly throw around the term innocent Nazi civilians during World War II.

In World War II, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Nazis. we did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese. We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get unconditional surrender. That needs to be the same here. Many people in this part of the world say what happened in Gaza does not align with Christian values, killing children, killing mothers, killing families.

We're not militants. Yeah, I just don't buy that at all. Why? What did we do in World War II? Did we think one minute about starving the Germans? Did we bomb every city into smithereens? So this is a war October 7th to World War II.

Yes, I am. This is an absolute existential threat to the Jewish people. We flattened Berlin. We flattened Tokyo. Were we wrong to drop an atomic bomb to end the Japanese reign of terror, were we? So my view, if I were Israel, I would have probably done it the same way. There are no innocent Palestinian civilians. We starve the Germans.

We're proud of it. We dropped an atomic bomb on Japanese civilians. We're proud of it. The Israelis should do the same here. Now, if there's another definition of genocide intentionally targeting the innocent for murder, it would be interesting to know what it is. Keep in mind, none of these people, Brian Mass from Florida, Randy Fine from Florida. In the end, of course, Lindsay Graham from South Carolina. none of them even bothered to add the caveat, well, Hamas supporters, no.

People who live next door to Hamas supporters, down the street from Hamas supporters, in the same region as Hamas supporters, Arabs must be killed because they're Arabs. How is that any different from Hutu radio comparing the tootsies to cockroaches? How is the net result different? Well, it's identical in both cases. How is it different? and this is an explicit violation of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, but it's also true.

How is this different from what the Germans did to civilians in World War II? It's different in its scale, thankfully. Is it different in its intent? It's hard to see how? And if it is different, how? How is it different? Well, of course, it's not. It's the same thing.

All of this, by the way, was going on with Samantha Power, not to beat up on poor Samantha Power. Clearly didn't sign up for this. you just want to talk about the empowerment of women and girls in the LGBT community. But how could you write a book on genocide or claim to oppose genocide or send money to a Holocaust memorial or talk about the Second World War at all and the atrocities against civilians and stand by, much less fund this while it happens? It's hard to understand. but not only have they, they being the supporters of the Israeli government, they've done both at the same time.

Lecturing the world about why genocide is wrong, murdering the innocent is wrong, and they're right, and at the same time bragging about those very same things in Gaza. Here is a now thankfully famous couple of tweets from Randy Fine of Florida, gloating about the murder of civilians in Gaza. the first is a picture of a dead child killed by the Israeli government that somebody put in his Twitter feed and asked basically, how can you sleep at night? And he says, quite well, actually, thanks for the pick with an exclamation point. And the second is a story about starvation in Gaza, which is real and entirely manufactured by the Israeli government with the backstop of the American government.

And Randy Fine, on seeing a picture of starving civilians, women and children, writes, Starve away. Starve away. So here you have sitting members of the United States Congress, not simply denying genocide, but encouraging it, gloating over it, celebrating it. How did this happen? How did the rest of the United States stand by and allow the federal government to take its tax dollars to fund this? Israel could do none of this by itself. Of course, it couldn't exist without U.S. tax dollars. It would be destroyed by its enemies. There's no question about that. So how exactly have members of Congress been allowed, not simply to fund, but to celebrate genocide here in the United States? And the answer is really simple by a form of moral blackmail. Where the real criminals

here are not Smotrich and Ben-Givir and Netanyahu and the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, the people who are calling women and children who are Arabs, animals who must be buried alive with bulldozers, starve to death. No, the real criminals, the people who should be in serious trouble, should go to jail, are the people who notice it, who complain about it, who object to it. Even the people who ever so mildly say, not my business, but I don't want to fund this. those people are the people who have committed the real moral crimes. Hate to put this up again, but it's such a perfect distillation. Almost everything Mark Levin says, none of it is original.

All of it is the kind of most vulgar form of the talking points that everyone else is using. His are just revealing because he doesn't hold back. Here's Mark Levin describing people who complain about the genocide in Gaza. Watch. Who the hell do you think you are? Who the hell do you think you are to use these blood liables against the Jewish people, that they're indiscriminately murdering Palestinian civilians when you spew the lives of the Hamas terrorists against the Jews and unleash anti-Semitism in this country around the world like we've never seen before? Who the hell do you think you are? The idea that the Israeli people, that the representatives in the government are committing acts of genocide and war crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza is sickening. It's a blood libel. Joe Biden basically using blood libel after blood libel against the Israelis that they're killing all these civilians.

They're using the Hamas numbers. All of this will be certified. All of this will be sanctified. All the Hitler youth on our campuses, the Hitler youth throughout Europe, and the Hitler. throughout Europe where the Holocaust started, this is what they're going to take out of October 7th. The enemy is Hamas. The enemy is Iran. The enemy are those who are silent in the face of this kind of genocide.

That is, by the terrorists. Keep in mind that Joe Biden did nothing to stop the genocide in Gaza. Of course, he continued to allow the U.S. government to pay for it. His criticisms were mild and, in the end, ineffectual. and even, as we noted, his in-house genocide expert didn't say a word about it. Biden let this happen, just as Donald Trump has let this happen and encouraged it to happen. But anyone who notices it is the real terrorist. So what you have here is the desperate attempt, which appears to be coming to an end,

of the people committing the crimes trying to remain the victim of the crime. and it's just not sustainable. It's not sustainable as a math question. All murder of civilians is wrong. But since we're comparing, in what place have more civilians been murdered? Israel or Gaza. It's not even close.

It's not even close. And again, you don't even need to go there. You just say it's always wrong. It's wrong when you do it. It's wrong when you do it. It would be wrong if I did it. And we're all capable of it, which is one of the deepest lessons of what's happened in Gaza

and Rwanda and Bukkenwald. is it the desire to kill groups of other people is not limited to one race or religion. It's a species of the same evil that lurks in every human heart. It's just the way people are. And under certain circumstances, good people can do horrifying things and support horrifying things. And they're probably good people who support the genocide in Gaza because they're under some kind of spell. They don't know what they're saying. They don't understand the implications of it.

They don't understand the physical reality of it. everybody is capable of evil. That's the truth. That's the universal lesson. But supporters of Israel don't believe in anything that's universal. They believe that there's one set of rules for the country they admire and another set for the world. When we do it, it is not wrong. When you do it, it is wrong.

In fact, when you complain about our doing it, it's doubly wrong. And that just can't last because it's self-evidently absurd. And it won't last. And anyone who's defended it or helped pay for it. will face at the very least a reckoning at the end, and maybe sooner, one hopes. But in the meantime, because this is a process of stages, it might help just to establish what happened in Gaza.

And of course, we're not really sure even now. There are more journalists operating Kilgali Rwanda without restriction in 1994 than they were in Gaza today. I knew one of them. Well, the Western journalist. he was never molested by anybody. The Hutu militia never heard him. He stood by and watched the whole thing and he reported on it.

That is not the case in Gaza. Hundreds of journalists have been murdered by the Israeli government in Gaza. And the purpose of killing them, of course, was to prevent the rest of the world from knowing what happened there. But some people have been witnesses to this. And we want you to hear the interview that we just did with a man called Nick Maynard, who was one of those witnesses. because we think that his account, which is entirely non-political or even polemical, is instead

reliable. He's a physician from Oxford at the university in the UK. He's a cancer doctor. And for a number of years, and he'll explain it just a moment, he has been in and out of Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza in recent years, particularly in Gaza, both before and after October 7th. and the things he's seen there are so horrifying that they can't really be rebutted. No one can look at the man you're about to see and say, oh, he's a secret member of Islamic jihad, probably a closet Shiite.

No, he's a British cancer doctor in his 60s who does believe in universal principles. You shouldn't kill the innocent because they're innocent. They've done nothing wrong. And when you do, you should be held to account for it. He's not an anti-Semite, he doesn't hate the Jews. Like a lot of Jews around the world, he is horrified by what's happening in Gaza. And he has the bravery to describe it.

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Doctor, thank you for doing this. So you're a medical professor at Oxford. I think you have one of the world's most respectable jobs, most respected jobs, certainly. and now you are speaking about what you have seen in the most contentious controversial conflict in the world. How did you decide to speak about what you saw in Gaza? In fact, how did you wind up going to Gaza in the first place? So it was real pure serendipity that I ended up going to Gaza in many ways.

I was invited more than 20 years ago, maybe in 2006, to go to the West Bank to teach medical students Al-Kutz University in Jerusalem in Ramallah and Hebron and did that on a very ad hoc basis for a few years. And then I was asked to do the same in Gaza, and I leapt at the opportunity because I'd already sort of fallen in love with the Palestinian people. I'd loved visiting the West Bank. So I went to Gaza for the first. What did you like? It's weird maybe for Americans to hear that because the Palestinians have been so thoroughly maligned by our media for so long that people think of them as violent and primitive. What did you like about the Palestinians? They're the kindest people I've met.

They're profoundly resilient, particularly in Gaza, but they're generous, their kind, very welcoming. I've always been treated wonderfully by them. And when you go to Gaza, I mean, you see that even to a different level yet again. They are incredibly resilient, incredibly resourceful, but they are the kindest, most generous-hearted, most beautiful people I've ever met in the world. Really? Absolutely correct. I can't overstate the degree to which Americans have been told for decades that the people in Gaza are barely human. And that was not. When did you first go? I went to Gaza over the first time in 2010. And it was just an initial sort of trip to teach.

And then ever since then, I've been taking a team of doctors from Oxford to teach medical students there. What was Gaza like? Can you describe it in 2010? Yeah, it was, it was under occupation. So it was, it was, it was, it was under occupation. So it was, it was, it's been verasly described as a large prison or concentration camp and, you know, people might take issue with that terminology. But what lies behind that is the fact that the 99% plus of the population have never ever been able to leave their country. So they are in prison there. So we went in through the most remarkable security from Israel. We went through the Erez crossing in northern Gaza. That first trip took us most of the day to get through the security. And,

We had 10 days, I think, in Gaza. As a Western physician, it took you most of the day to get from Israel into Gaza. Yeah. Because of the Israeli security? Because the Israeli security. It took hours getting through the most remarkably intense security, being grilled repeatedly about why we were going there, what we were doing, why we were going there, why didn't we go to Africa instead, why we were going to Gaza, if we wanted to help people,

why didn't we go to African countries? Literally those sort of questions were being asked. Is this the same border that Hamas came over on October 7? No. So, Erez's crossing is the very top of Gaza, the northern border with Israel. Hamas came out through southern, perhaps near the bottom of Gaza. Erez crossing was destroyed very early on in this conflict, so it's not being used at all. Certainly none of the humanitarian teams that have gone in have gone in through that at all.

it's a sort of no-pass area. But you get into Garz. And I remember vividly, my first visit there in 2010, meeting these people who were just so welcoming. They were so delighted that we'd gone to visit them. And the hospitality was just remarkable. And that's been the way ever since. And indeed, every year I've been going there,

I've been taking new people most times. And everyone falls in love with the Palestinian people. And they all want to go back. So in those early years, I was just teaching every year, and I've been doing that until 2020. In fact, we had a teaching trip planned for November 23, and that was clearly cancelled. But I've also been involved separate to that in carrying out and teaching cancer surgery. That's what I do in Oxford, so helping them develop their cancer services and teaching my specialty of cancer as well. What did it look like in 2010?

It was occupied, as you said, but... What was the infrastructure like Gaza City? How would you describe it? I mean, there was vast amount of wreckage of destroyed buildings because this was not, it's worth pointing out that every single trip I've ever been into Gaza and I've been many times in those 18 to 16 years. I've seen aerial bombardments. So it's a way of life there.

Every trip I've. By Israel. By Israel. Aerobabments on Gaza by the Israeli Air Force. And this was, I was there in two. 2010, not long after the 2008 massive military assault on Gaza. So the destruction you see is remarkable. There's loads of buildings have been destroyed. And each time you go, you see more of that. I remember going in in 2015, just after 2014 Operation Protective Edge, which you may remember,

which was about a 58-day military assault, I think. The destruction of buildings was just like something I'd never seen before. So you have this sort of mixture of mass destruction, but you see Gazans rebuilding the whole time. They're there rebuilding their destroyed houses yet again. But it's a busy thriving place. You go down to Gaza City where the harbour is, it's busy. There are markets there. There are fishing boats there. They are desperate all the time to get back to normal living.

But the resources are very limited. I mean, particularly in the healthcare system there, which is where I've been working, they never have enough resources. Their economy has almost been completely disabled by Israel all that time. So they have very limited resources for everything, for all aspects of living there, but particularly in the healthcare structure. So in 2010, or let's just say before October 7th, 23, how would you just, what was the state of the health care system? in Gaza. It was, I mean, they practiced high quality medicine. The doctors, the nurses, the dietitians, the physiotherapist, the occupational therapists, remarkably talented. And I was teaching the students for years. I know how bright these kids are. They're just remarkably bright. They know so much.

A lot of it was sort of didactic teaching, online teaching, which we tried to improve on in our sort of face-to-face teaching. So their knowledge is remarkable. They practice medicine. very high level, but they have very limited resources. So in my specialty in cancer surgery, they didn't have the resources to do absolutely everything. So many patients had to, the doctors had to apply to get them transferred, for example, to the West Bank or to Jordan or sometimes into Israel, to have specialist treatment that couldn't be carried out in Gaza. So they had to work with very limited resources. How hard was it for cancer patients to leave Gaza for treatment? very difficult. So there was a very laborious application process. The Ministry of Health had to apply to the Israeli authorities. That took on average about three months for each application to go through. These are all people with life-threatening time-critical illnesses. So that's three months, that cancer would change a lot. Of those applicants, about two-thirds would get through and a third would be rejected. So these are people, again, with

life-threatening illnesses which cannot be treated in Gaza, one and three were being rejected, so they would inevitably die. And even if they were granted permission, they were often sent out alone. So kids sent out for treatment for their brain tumor, for example, might be sent by themselves without any parent accompanying them. Were these kids with a documented history of terrorism? Not at all. Not at all. Why would the Israelis prevent a child with a brain tumor from getting treatment, not at their expense? What's the thinking there? I don't know what the thinking is.

I mean, there were some patients who were accepted into Israeli hospitals, and there are many examples of that. But why some were turned down, some were accepted, I've no idea. But it is a fact that many people were rejected. despite needing life-threatening, life-saving treatment. How many hospitals were in Gaza? There are 36, I mean, the United Nations tells us there's 36 hospitals in Gaza, but some of them are very, very small clinics. So there are probably four, or there were four major hospitals in Gaza,

the Indonesian hospital in the north, Shifa Hospital, which is the most famous iconic hospital in Gaza, in Gaza City, and then the European Gaza Hospital, and NASA Hospital in the south. of those NASA Hospital, the NASA Medical Complex in high-nunez, where I was based most recently, is the only remaining large hospital in Gaza, and even that is very significantly part of disabled.

They've been destroyed. Why? So, I think this is part of the, I mean, the whole healthcare infrastructure has been targeted in Gaza, repeatedly over many years. I mean, I've been in hospitals being bombed, long ago as 2014. But in this...

Well, you were in the hospital while it was bombed? No, I was visiting a hospital before, and then I visited Art had been bombed. I've been in hospitals that have been bombed in this current conflict, but not prior to then. I think this is... Every single hospital has been attacked. I mean, nearly 2,000 healthcare workers have been killed during this conflict, a far greater proportion than any other conflict in living memory. 75 Gaza and healthcare workers have been killed per 100,000 capita of population.

75, the equivalent number in Ukraine is 0.8. In all the other conflicts, a single figures of healthcare workers per 100,000 population. In Gaza, it's 75. So there's been a grossly disproportionate killing of healthcare workers, all the hospitals have been attached. And I think this is, I mean, I'm going to be talking to you about what I've seen with my own eyes. The disproportionate attack on the healthcare system, I think, has been a deliberate part of the Israeli policy to dismantle the whole infrastructure of living in Gaza. A lot of people hesitate before getting traditional therapies for cholesterol health. They don't want to

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first trip, we went in, we were the very first emergency team that got into Gaza. And we stayed actually on that occasion in a safe house rather than in the hospital. And each day, we are Garzan staff, colleagues, communicator with Kogat, which is the liaison branch of the Israeli army, to check that the route going to the hospital, the hospital itself, was deconflicted. So there was a sort of what we thought was a very robust deconfliction process where the Israeli military would know that we were driving along such. and such a road, we were going to work in such and such a hospital, and we would be safe. That was naive of us, clearly. You'll remember about the Grand Central Kitchen convoy that got bombed. That was the first very publicised example of the deconfliction process breaking down. Alaxa Hospital, I was operating in the operating theatre one day. It was January 5th,

2024. I remember the day, well, operating on a victim of a bomb explosion, and an Israeli missile attack hit the intensive care unit right next to where I was working. So we had to... While you were operating? While I was operating. So we finished the operation. We had to evacuate the hospital then. MSF had a team there. All the foreign aid workers had to evacuate to go back to our safe house. And that hospital rapidly becomes disabled. So there are multiple examples. of hospitals being attacked. These are not collateral damage. I mean, the propaganda we hear from the Israeli spokespeople is always, well, these are either collateral damage or they are being used as Hamas command centers and we're just targeting Hamas. And they've never provided any remotely

credible or verifiable evidence to support those contentions. Well, as a doctor who's operated in these hospitals, did you notice Hamas command meetings going on? while you were there? Not at all. And I've, since October the 7th, I've been in two hospitals, but prior to then, I've worked in all the major hospitals. I've had unlimited access throughout all these hospitals. And I've been to every square inch of these hospitals, you know, NASA Medical Complex. It was bombed soon after I left most recently. I walked around every single part of the hospital, and I've never seen anything. I've seen no evidence of Hamas military activity. Now, I clearly cannot talk about what's going on in any tunnels, because I didn't go into any

tunnels. I clearly can't talk about what's going on in the hospital outbuilding 100 meters away or 75 meters away. And there may be that they were hammered. I have no idea. I can bear witness to what I have seen. But of course, the Israeli military are not bombing those outbuildings. They've been bombing the clinical areas of these hospitals, where there have been. patients, where there have been doctors, where they've been medical students. I had been teaching a few weeks previously who were killed in the latest attack on NASA hospital. So there is, they are targeting the clinical areas. And I can say with very, with absolute clarity, and indeed all my colleagues have been out there, none of us have seen any evidence of Hamas military.

For comparison, again, you gave the numbers, the number of medical personnel who been killed in the Russia-Ukraine war, and it's a tiny fraction proportionally of the number who have been killed by the Israelis. How many hospitals have been totally blown up in that war, Russia-Ukraine, do you think? I don't know. I mean, there has been significant targeting of Ukrainian hospitals as well, and Ukraine the proportion of healthcare workers killed and hospitals killed in Ukraine is not as bad as Gaza, but it's much more than many previous conflicts. So both those two current conflicts stand out in that respect, but the statistics would say that Gaza is the worst of.

Targeting hospitals is a war crime, correct? Yeah. How many people do you know who've been killed? Many. I mean, close friends, I'd say probably a dozen close friends have been killed, but I probably know killed. Yeah, I mean, one young plastic surgery, who I knew who I'd worked with in May 2023 when I was at Shifa Hospital.

He was executed. And I use that word very carefully. He was discovered about a mile from Shifa Hospital with his mother. They were both had their hands handcuffed behind their backs, and they both had bullet wounds in the brains. So I've had friends who've been bombed. I've had friends who've been shot. And he was a plastic surgeon?

He was a plastic surgeon. Why was he executed? Well, when, I don't know. I mean, I don't know what goes on behind this. What I can tell you is that when Shifa Hospital was, sheaf hospital has been destroyed effectively twice during this war. But when it was invaded initially, maybe two years ago, all the staff were displaced, including very, very close friends of mine.

And when they were allowed back. in when the Israeli military left off for a few weeks, they discovered the dead bodders of 300 civilians in the hospital, some patients, some staff, many of them handcuffed with their hands behind their back, many of them with bullet wounds on the head, including this friend of mine. So there are multiple examples of people, of healthcare staff who've been killed, healthcare staff who've been abducted. You know, I think the latest figure is nearly 500 healthcare workers have been abducted illegally to detained without charge, many of them taught. By the Israeli military? By the Israeli military,

into the Israeli prison system, multiple examples of them being tortured. This has all been documented in a by group called Healthcare Workers Watch. You can Google it. They produced a document called the killing detention of Gaza and healthcare workers. And there are multiple examples of people being tortured to death. Tortured to death? Absolutely. So, a, a iconic orthopedic surgeon who I didn't know well but I had met and in fact I had coffee with him in May 2023 he was tortured to death and in fact a sky television investigative journalist interviewed fellow detainees and did some remarkable investor to give journalism this is all in public domain and described how this surgeon's mode of torture was being raped to death he had been

sincerely raped on a daily basis for two weeks prior to his dying. His body's never been returned. I've taken detailed testimonies from healthcare workers who've been in Israeli prisons and have been tortured. They survived. I've taken video and audio testimony. And they've described to me their modes of torture how their genitals were repeatedly attacked specifically. They were electrocuted through their genitals. They underwent severe psychological torture. They were blindfolded for 60 days in a row. They were handcuffed.

They were not allowed to lie down. They were on their knees or sitting for 60 days nonstop, beaten regularly, electrocuted. I mean, awful things. And this document that I'm, you know, the healthcare workers watch, your readers can Google that. There's all the different modes of torture, all of which. By the Israeli government? by the Israeli prison service guards and military.

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It does sound plausible. I did not hear any examples of that, but what I have heard about and what I've taken detailed testimony of are some of the most appalling examples of torture. So one of the one of my, my friends who was tortured for 60 days in a prison talked about how I've heard no examples of dogs raping the prisoners, but I have heard multiple examples of the dogs being used as weapons with, you'll be familiar with the drone warfare. They're the quadcopters with cameras and guns.

Well, they have dogs who are trained to go into the hospitals with cameras and guns on their back and attacking people. and my colleague whom I took a detailed test me has described that in great details. Dogs with guns on their backs? Dogs with cameras and guns on their backs and being trained to go into hospitals and shoot people. And I've had multiple examples of that. Of a living dog. Living dogs who are trained, they go in, they go into wherever, and then there's someone remotely controlling the camera and the guns, and then they are.

If you told me that it happened in a North Korean prison camp, I would have trouble believing. You're saying the Israeli government did this. Well, I'm telling you what I have taken, test me of a friend of mine who witnessed this on multiple occasions. What are people in the, you live still in Britain, what are people in the UK say when you tell them this? So I do, I talk a lot about this. I felt this obligation having witnessed all these atrocities that I feel I have to share this with everyone. I've done a lot of media interviews. I've done a lot of lectures at medical conferences, at lay people's conferences, and I've met a lot of our senior politicians.

And I'm not alone. A lot of people have done this. A lot of my colleagues have done this. A lot of US doctors have done this. I mean, US doctors, British doctors, we've all publicly written to our governments. A few of us wrote a very detailed dossier with photographic and written evidence of what we've seen. We presented it to our Prime Minister. We submitted it to all the Cabinet Ministers.

So they know what's going on. I visited Washington, D.C. in the early part of this and met members of the Biden administration, with friends of mine from Med Global, a wonderful US NGO. We went and gave this evidence. we took in large laminated color photographs of babies who'd been shot in the head, of children who'd lost their limbs, of children who'd been starved to death. Literally, we've described this to the Biden administration. I've been to several meetings in our government, including one with the Prime Minister,

where we've described what's been going on, and it's had no impact at all. What was your meeting with Biden officials like? What did they say? Um, they, some of them were, they were by and large, very receptive. So we went to, um, we met various senators as well, but then we met members of the administration. They were very receptive. We, we clearly met people lower down the chain. We did meet Samantha Power. She was the most senior who was, who, um, I was very impressed with. Uh, we got a very good reception and and very sympathetic reception.

Of course, none of this goes anywhere, so we don't see any actions at the end of that. But by and large, the U.S. politicians we met were very sympathetic, but of course it had no impact whatsoever. Smith Power became famous for writing a book on genocide, how we can never allow it again, and then she allowed it again. So your friend who was raped to death, your friends who were tortured, why were they detained and tortured?

I think this is, there's a clear disproportion of senior healthcare workers who've been taken compared to junior healthcare workers. My presumption is, I mean, I, again, I can tell you a lot of facts about what's happened there. My interpretation is my opinion. It would seem to me, and many others who've witnessed all of this, this has been a deliberate policy to destroy the healthcare system. Can you give us a specific example of someone you know who was detained and tortured, and what were the circumstances?

How does that happen? So they're arrested within the hospitals. So my two colleagues, one of them was arrested in the Indonesian hospital, one of them was arrested in Nassah hospital. The Israeli military invade the hospitals. They, what would appear to be, fairly arbitrarily arrest some, let others go, predominantly males. They are then taken off.

So I'll describe what happened to the last testimony I took. He was with about 20 or 30 other healthcare workers put in a big pit, an underground pit with no covering. They were stripped naked down to the underwear. They were blindfolded. They were handcuffed. They were left in a pit in the ground for two to three days. Then they were taken off to an Israeli prison. They were left blindfolded.

They were left handcuffed. They were beaten those first few days nonstop for 12 hours at a time. Many other forms of torture we've described about all along. One of my close friends, who's one of the senior deans in the medical school there, was abducted and taken away. He was only taken for, I think, 10 days and then released. But there are so many examples. is he? He is, I guess, late 50s. Yeah, I mean, you know, and there are photographs. None of militant age. Not of militant age, absolutely, absolutely. And what was the justification?

Well, so they were, they were continually being grilled about, you know, about them being Hamas members and what they had done and all that sort of stuff. Now, there are some, so, you know, Hassam Abu Safa who's the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital was abducted over a year ago now he's still under

detention in an Israeli prison his lawyers can't get in news about him there are many people who are still there we can only speculate as to why they are being taken and why they're being tortured but it seems

the deliberate disproportionate detention of healthcare workers and killing of health workers compared to other civilians speaks to me that there is a deliberate policy of undermining, of destroying the whole healthcare system. Are they charged with crimes, put on trial? No, no, no, no, none of them are charged. None of them are charged. These are all people who detained without charge. So just completely lawless. But that's been happening for, as you will know, for decades in the Palestinian territories. There are thousands of,

of Palestinian in the West Bank who are in prison without child, who've been in prison without child. So this has been happening for a long time. But certainly the ones that I have interviewed and the ones I've known who've been told, no, there were no charges at all. And a lot of these are just adult men with families. Yeah, I mean, a lot of them were sort of, the age range of the people I know were from probably early 20s to late 50s.

It's shocking. It is shocking. To me. And having seen this, having witnessed this, this is why I think it is important that we tell everyone what's going on. Because this is not what we're hearing from our Western media, from our governments, despite many attempts of foreign doctors have been there to speak out and tell. Well, some of the accounts are so shocking that the military just rolls into a hospital, abducts senior physicians and then rapes them in prison with no charges, it's kind of hard to

believe that could be true, given that Israel is regarded by, I think, most people in the United States as a civilized country. Maybe you disagree with their influence over our politics, but like, it's Israel. It's not that different from us. You're describing totally uncivilized evil behavior, organized behavior. I'm describing what I have either seen or what close friends have told me. And the volume of accounts that I have read, heard are overwhelming. And to me, that the amount of volume of reports coming out tells me very clearly this is happening. So after October 7th, October 7th happens. Are you in the UK when that happened? I was in the UK, yeah.

Given how familiar you are with Gaza and the crossings from Gaza and Israel, were you surprised? that Hamas or militants could cross the border in those numbers without pushback from the Israeli military? I think we're all surprised, and I think there's a huge amount we don't know about the events of that day. My concentration at the time was within 12 hours of that, and I was being contacted by my friends and colleagues out there, who in the very, very early days were predicting there was going to be. the most almighty backlash and that they were already on the day afterwards begging those of us who could to go out there and help them. So they knew what was coming? So I think by the next day,

by October the 8th, they knew what was coming and we were talking to them, you know, and people were trying to get in there right from the word go to go and help. When did you get back into Gaza after that? So my first trip was, we were. went in on Boxing Day, so December the 23rd, we were meant to go on Christmas Day and we got delayed by the Egyptian military in fact and the Sinai. So we went into Gaza on December the 26th, and it was the first significant emergency medical teams that went in there. What did you find when you got there? I remember approaching it from, we'd had a sort of very long crossing the northern Sinai going through all the Egyptian military checkpoint.

and it was a, I always remember there was a beautiful day, beautifully sunny, no clouds in the sky, and then you could see, as we approached Rafa from Egypt, you could see, as we approached the Egyptian part of Rafa, you could see this low-lying cloud over the whole of southern Gaza, which of course was smoke from the bombs, and you could smell it from about two or three miles away. You could smell the burning, and it was awful. It was awful. So we got into Raffa, we got through the sort of the Egyptian checkpoints, then the Garsen checkpoints. And we had to drive through Rafa to get to the house we were, the safe house we were living in. And this was, so this was, you know, two, two and a half months into it, by which time a lot of people have been displaced from northern Ghaz and Gaza City.

The migration of displaced refugees from the north was like something I've never seen before. As we were driving through Raffa and then up the coast road towards middle Gaza, where the hospital we were going to be working in, Daryal Bala, it was, it's impossible to put words to it. The thousands of people walking down, most of them walking, some of them in horse and carts, some of them in vehicles, who'd been displaced and were moving down south to get away from all the traumas. So that to me was a sight I will never forget seeing these people.

And of course, at that time, this is very early on, Al-Mawesi, which will be an area you're familiar with. It's what the Israelis paradoxie were called in the safe area, that everyone was being evacuated in the safe area. You remember that, well, of course, it's not remotely safe. at that time there were no tents up there at all it was people walking there

the next time I went back a few months later of course that had been covered in tents I say tents but they're not really tense there's sort of makeshift shelters so the hundreds of thousands had been moved down south was just it was awful to see because their homes have been destroyed

their homes have been destroyed and you know friends of mine have been displaced six seven eight nine times that very first trip, I remember I was, I'd been in the hospital, in Alaks Hospital, Dera Bala, for about four or five days. And we have a, there, I have many friends out there, one particularly close family whose daughter, um, left Gaza about eight years previously. She got a, I mentioned, she got a scholarship to get out. She stayed in, in, in, um, in the UK. She's a doctor there. She became a member of our family. She, you know, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, so I

I'd see her family every time I go to Gaza. They came to visit me at the hospital, Al-Axa, just a week after I'd arrived. And they were distraught. I mean, they'd been displaced six times at that point. They were living, no running water, no electricity. They had all written on their legs in ink, their names and their dates of birth.

And this is what they all did because they all expected to be killed and they wanted their bodies to be recognized. wanted to be identified. See, these are close friends of mine. So it was, I saw that, I mean, I, you know, that first trip, I, I, I thought I'd be prepared because I had been on the phone to my guards and friends and colleagues almost daily since October the 7th.

We have a strong network in Oxford in particular of people who've been out there. So we were all interacting with all our different contacts. We were meeting regularly on a weekly basis to do, see what we could do. and I thought I'd be prepared, but nothing could have prepared me for what I saw there. And you're a surgeon, so it's not like you're fainting at the sight of blood. No. I mean, you know, I've described to you the sort of the non-medical thing so far, but of course you get into the hospital, and it was, Alexa Hospital, which is where I was first based, is a small hospital.

It's not a trauma. It's a very small hospital. It has, I think, a bed capacity of 200 normally. There were something like 800 patients there. The grounds of the hospital, the corridors, the waiting areas were covered in patients and their relatives. You could hardly move. I mean, literally, every time you walked into the hospital, you were treading over people who were lying there or sitting there. And the trauma we saw, at that time in December 22 and 3, the numbers of aerial bombardments was just nonstop.

So we had mass casualty after mass casualty. It was really quite remarkable, the awful trauma we were seeing. And this hospital, the quality of the surgical care, the medical care is remarkable, but there's only so much you can do with limited resources. So the capacity of the hospital was being repeatedly overwhelmed. Were you performing surgeries? Yeah, yeah. I spent the whole time operating on major explosive injuries, bomb injuries,

and these were injuries affecting, so I do abdominal and thoracic surgery back home in Oxford, so I was operating on the abdomen and the chest all the time. And these were injuries at that time from explosive injuries and from what are called the fragmentation missiles that were being used there. And these are the bombs which have contained many thousands of very, very small metal pieces,

which then act as thousands of pieces of shrapnel, which tear through the human bodies. These are bombs which are designed to cause the maximum amount of tissue destruction, and they did indeed do that. So we saw multiple civilians' children. 70% of the people I treated in that first trip were women and children being destroyed by these bombs. I mean, I can talk about, you know, the little brother and sister,

Alah and Iya, a six and an eight-year-old brother and sister who were the sole remaining members of their family. Their parents were killed by the bomb. Oh, come on. And I can see them in front of me as I'm talking to you about them. I can remember their injuries. We were treated them. These were days when we had completely run out of all pain relief. So we had no painkillers to give them.

Before surgery? Before surgery? In the ER, for example, your resuscitation, them little I, an eight-year-old girl had such a badly broken leg that it had cut off the blood supply to her foot. So that leg had to be straightened in order to stop the foot dying, and that had to be done without any pain relief. And I'm telling you this, I can hear her screams as that was done. And so we saw awful things. And a group of us who've been out there did a survey of about 100 foreign healthcare workers who've worked in the acute situations there.

And we had this published in the British Medical Journal, British Medical Journal, end of last year, where we described the pattern of injuries. And this has been widely disseminated in the medical world now because of the conclusions we drew. We described huge and terrible shrapnel injuries, gunshot wounds, burn injuries. But what we've described as multiple examples of high-energy weapons being used in civilian populations. And the pattern of injuries that we described is a pattern that's only previously been described in true combat situations, i.e. when soldiers fight soldiers. The pattern of injures we described using these high-energy weapons, missiles, has never been described in civilian populations before, in such high numbers, which again supports the contention that many of us have spoken about, saying that this is evidence of indiscriminate, deliberate, whatever, but mass targeting of civilian populations.

And when civilians are killed, by definition, it's murder because they're not part of it. Absolutely. They committed no crime. What are injuries like from high explosive missiles, bombs? So we don't see those who are within a few hundred meters because they're killed outright. I mean, if they're very close, they get killed by the shockwave. If they're within a few hundred meters, they get destroyed by the shrapnel. So we see people who are several hundred meters.

away. But they come in... Several hundred meters square? We see... They come in with the most appalling injuries. These are... You don't see the pieces of the shrapwell off and they're one or two millimeters. You don't see them.

You don't find the majority of them, but you see these multiple entry points throughout the chest, throughout the abdomen, and causing the most appalling damage. I learned a lot from the gals and surgeons. I mean, I work in Oxford. We don't see trauma like that. We don't see trauma like that anywhere in the world, really. certainly not in the United Kingdom. So they had been dealing with this day and day and out.

So it was a very steep learning curve for me, and for most of us coming from the UK, dealing with this sort of shrapnel damage, which we don't normally see, but just shredding their way through the lungs, through the diaphragm, through the liver, awful liver injuries, pancreas, bowel injuries. And of course, sometimes you see multiple injuries

throughout the abdomen. So you have to labor as you search out all the different holes and different things. So terrible injuries and of course they're life threatening in their own right but of course the very strong narrative from my most recent trip although we called this out on earlier trips was the malnutrition resource so the starvation these patients coming in with these terrible injuries, but also profoundly malnourished and their inability to heal from injuries, from the surgery. So the mortality rate from these injuries was far, far higher than they should be. I'm confused because we had a guy an American called Johnny Moore, who's some sort of self-described Christian minister who ran the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. And we were assured

directly by him that there's no starvation in Gaza because they were bringing in more than enough food aid. That's not true? Most certainly not true. Whether there's a deliberate lie or misinformation, I can categorically say there is no truth in that statement whatsoever. I spoke out about this publicly back in January 2024 when I, that was three months into the, we were beginning to see the signs of malnutrition. I was there again six months later. It was much, much worse. I was there again the following year. And the malnutrition, I mean, I can reel off names of children who I operated on, who died because they were malnourished. I mean, they're imprinted on my mind. You know,

little Habiba, a beautiful 11-year-old girl who came in, she wasn't malnourishing, came in, but she had a severe explosive injury, her lower esophagus, was shattered. That's what I do in Oxford. I operate on the esophagus day and day out. I spend the whole of one night operating, reconstructing her esophagus successfully. But because her esophagus was so damaged, she couldn't eat or drink. She was on a ventilator. We had to tube feeder. We had no nutrition to give her. She died after four weeks. Her repairs intact, she died because she had no nutrition. Because the hospital had nothing to give for? We had no nutrition to give. We had no nutrition to give any patients at all, Tucker. No nutrition. Where was the rest of the world? Well, I mean,

this is something we've called out repeatedly, very public, is something I've told my government about that there is a total blockade. At that time, a total blockade which lasted about five or six months of any aid going into Gaza. From March the 18th, 2025, when the Israeli broke that ceasefire, I was there in June, July, there was a complete blockade, no food going in. I saw members, friends of mine, surgeons I'd been known for years. One guy, I didn't recognize him because he lost 40 kilograms in weight. We all lost, I lost eight kilograms in a month there because we had no very little food to eat. So the malnutrition, the starvation was, was appalling.

And those commentators who claim there was enough food going in are being profoundly dishonest in saying that. But, I mean, what was the Gazi Humanitarian Fendation doing then? Well, they were going on television, bragging about how Johnny Moore was telling everybody that they were saving the people of Gaza. Well, they weren't at all. I mean, the, so prior to that, UNRWA was distributing food.

They were, of course, stopped by the Israelis. They were distributing food through over 400 food distribution points. And within the limitations of what food was getting into Gaza, they were distributing it as well as they could, they were stopped completely. They were replaced by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which had four food distribution points. Now, I didn't go to them because I wasn't able to,

because I was in the hospitals. It was too dangerous to leave the hospitals. I was in NASA hospital where at one point the Israeli military were 200 meters away. We couldn't go out at all. The only safe place we call the least dangerous place was to say in the hospital. But what I did see were the victims who had been shot at those Gaza humanitarian foundation food distribution sites. You personally saw them? I operated on many of them.

And I also had Gaza and colleagues, Gaza and healthcare. workers who used to go out to the food distribution points, the GHF sites, to get food. And these were, they were all describing these, these food distribution sites as death traps. And the first inkling I had that, um, that, that something horrible was going on there was, I think on something like my fourth day there, my last trip, um, um, I was called to the operating theatre by one of my gals and surgical colleagues. who he had a 12-year-old boy on the operating table.

And he'd been shot. It had gone through his aorta. He was dying. He was bleeding. They couldn't stop the bleeding. So they asked for my help. I went in there. I couldn't stop it either.

By which time his clotting had all gone wrong. This happens in severe injuries. So he was bleeding out from there. And he died on the operating table under our hands. Awful. Twelve-year-old. Twelve-year-old. And his family told us,

had come with him that he had been sent by these these were all starving they're all very weak so the young teenage boys are the ones who are sent out because they're the strongest to get the food and he'd been shot by an Israeli soldier there

and they'd witness this well I can't speculate any better than anyone else as to why this is happening what I can do is I can document what I saw and I can document what I heard from And it was a similar story from all the victims' families, from those that survived, from the victims themselves, from Gars and healthcare workers who went to these food sites in order to get food for their families.

They all described the same things how these young teenage boys were being shot by Israeli soldiers. So that 12-year-old was shot, and then I started hearing from many others. and a friend of mine who worked in the emergency room at NASA Hospital, one of the people I was telling about earlier who had the previous year been incarcerated in an Israeli prison for 60 days and being tortured daily. He recovered, he was now working again. He told me how they had noticed in the ER

how there were different body parts being targeted on different days at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution. point. So one day, he said, and other emergency room doctors and nurses I knew corroborated this, that 19 young teenage boys had all come in in one day, all of whom had been shot in the head and neck. Nowhere else, just the head and neck. Another day they came in predominantly with chest injuries. Another day they came in predominantly with abdominal gunshot wounds. And we noticed this. I started speaking to my fellow surgeons in the operating. theatres, and we all notice this pattern as well.

On one day, the Saturday before I left NASA Hospital to come home to England, four young teenage boys were brought in, all of whom had been shot in the testicles, just the testicles, nowhere else. And we, the pattern of injuries that we all witnessed was so striking that it was clearly beyond coincidental. And it seemed to us that there was a game of target practice. And these were all children who'd been shot, Palestinians who'd been shot at Ghazi humanitarian foundation food distribution sites.

Absolutely. And I operate on a lot of them. I operate a lot of them with abdominals. How can you, okay, so if you're, let's say you're in the business of distribute, not the business, you're, you have the ministry to distribute food to the starving. Not to Hamas militants, but just to families, children, women, the elderly. and people start getting shot at your distribution sites. Don't you do something about that? How could the Gaza humanitarian foundation day after day allow starving people to be shot at their distribution sites?

Your guess is as good as mine, Tucker. But just try to put yourself in their position. Wouldn't you say, well, wait a second, we can't have this? Wouldn't you say that? Yes, I would. So I, I, I, the description I got for many of my colleagues who went to them was that they, the food would all be laid out in a compound. And the gate would be locked and there'd be enough food. And again, I cut this description from many of my friends and colleagues who used to, these are people who had been working intense shifts in the hospital for 24 hours.

Then before they went home, they had to go and get food for their family starving. So there'd be this food in a compound, and there'd be enough food for, say, 200 people in this compound. There'd be a narrow gate locked with everyone crowding outside. They would wait until there were four, five, 600 people queuing up outside. I far more people than there was food allocated for. And then they'd open this narrow gate to get in, and there'd be utter chaos and fighting to try and get that food. and that was when they were being picked out, apparently, shot in the pen.

They were being shot trying to get in and shot in the pen by surrounding soldiers. Unarmed. Unarmed, unarmed people. Again, I stress, this is what's been described to me on multiple occasions. And not just by you. I mean, we interviewed Tony Aguilar, who was one of the American contractors hired to provide security for these sites who described the same thing,

and he watched his life overturned as he was slandered by Netanyahu's many defenders in our media, you know, paid liars by Johnny Moore, who ran it, who's now affiliated with Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. And I do hope that the people who run Liberty will sit Mr. Moore down and ask him to respond to what you've just said, because you're describing a war crime, one of the most immoral, disgusting scenes I can imagine, which he oversaw. And so you hate to think that someone like that could be rewarded by Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, after participating in that. So I just, I just want this on the record. Not that it, I guess, probably matters.

No one will pay any attention because no one has so far, but that's really upsetting. So the children, the boys shot in the genitals, I have seen even to ask, but is that of something that can be fixed? Yeah, I mean, they weren't my patients because I'm not a urologist, but I remember when they came in, because I was in the operating theater complex at NASA operating on people with gunshot wounds, the abdomen,

and my close friends who were urologists had this succession of boys being brought in who they were operating on. So I wasn't involved in their care. I didn't follow them up afterwards, but I can verify they were shot exclusively in the testicles. Oh, come on.

And there were, I mean, I remember that same day, on many of the days we got young boys being brought in from the GHF sites. There was, one of the GHF sites was in Alamoasi. and there were a lot of tents down there as well and we saw a lot of injuries from quadcopter drones these remotely controlled fixed-wing drones which hover

they have guns on them, they have cameras on them and they're flown all over the place in Gaza we saw many people shot by them they were flown into hospitals one of my friends was shot in the chest in the operating theatres at NASA not when I was there as before I was there a quadcopter was remotely controlled,

presumably by someone in Tel Aviv or somewhere, flown into the hospital, shot him in the chest when he was in the operating theater. He's in the operating room? He's in the operating room, early in the morning, preparing the operating theater for an imminent operation when this quadcopter shoots him in the chest. He survived.

I was with him a few weeks later than that. Indoors. Indoors, indoors. I also saw victims, young women who had been shot whilst in their tents in Almwasi, quadcopters hovering over the tents, spraying bullets indiscriminately onto the tents. So I had one woman who was three months pregnant,

who came in with a gunshot. We never had been able to know I operated on. We saved her life. The baby survived as well, but the bullet had missed her pregnant uterus by about two or three centimeters. So we saw examples like that of the, these quadcopters spraying bullets onto the, all the inhabitants of these tents. But I mean, the quadcopters are controlled by remote by someone who can see what they're

shooting at. Yes. I mean, there's a lot of speculation that a lot of them are being driven remotely controlled to, using artificial intelligence. That's not speculation. Yeah, to help the targeting. So, but absolutely, they were being controlled somehow. and going into hospitals, spraying the tents in Alamoasi.

We saw many examples of that. I saw them on my first trip in December, 2023. We saw in Alaksa. We had victims coming in from quadcop to shoot. What did you think of all of this? I was, you know, I was really skeptical. When I was told on that first trip that these were quadca, I didn't see any quadcaught, we heard you hear the drones the whole time.

I could not believe what I was hearing. I didn't believe a lot of it early on, to be honest with you, Sucker. I was naive. I assumed this was just, one there was propaganda, but I saw so much on all these trips, I saw so much clear evidence of children and women being targeted that I believe all of it. I mean, much more than the average person you spent your life around

death and suffering and human drama. I mean, you're a cancer surgeon. So presumably you've got a higher tolerance for this than most people. I mean, obviously you do. But what effect did it have on you seeing this? You do get, you're absolutely right. And I think working with cancer, I've had patients, you know, die of their disease for decades. Of course. You get, you know, I've always been a doctor who, who I, I valued intensive the relationship I have with my patients. And there is, you always have an emotion or involvement. You, you learn to control that, but of course you get emotionally involved with your patients because you care about them deeply. So yes, I am conditioned to deal with that. And I think doctors, nurses, healthcare workers are

conditioned to deal with these things. And when we're operating on these appalling situations, these children, when you have children dying under your hands on the operating table, you deal with it there and then you get on with it. But the aftermath, later that night, and when you get back to England, is awful. And we all learned a lot how to deal with the emotional turmoil we all experienced. And we shared a lot, we talked a lot late at night in the, you know, on the fourth floor of NASA Hospital, Interestingly, where the most recent big massive bombing of the Israeli military on NASA Hospital was on the fourth floor, which is they claimed, coming back to one of the earlier equations, they claimed that was where Hamas militants were masquerading as journalists, in fact, and it was not a clinical area. In fact, the fourth floor is where we were living.

It's where the intensive care unit was. It's where the operating theatre complex was. It was yet another clinical area being targeted by the Israeli military. But coming back to what you asked me about, we would, at the end of the day, whether it was at 10 o'clock, midnight, two in the morning, we would talk and share the awful things would seem. And that was very therapeutic. It was really cathartic talking to each other and share. Were these mostly Western doctors? No, no. I mean, yeah, there were a few Western doctors, but a lot of Garzan doctors as well. So we'd all congregate. And, you know, I was meeting up with people. Some people I'd known for years. but it was a mixture of Garzan and Western doctors, all just sharing these appalling things.

And that was, to an extent, cathartic. It was very therapeutic, but it lingers with you. And I can very openly say that all of us who've been out there have been affected deeply emotionally. But I want everyone to realise, you know, we're there for two, three, four weeks at a time. Our Garzan colleagues, and they're there. they've been seeing this day in, day out for two and a half years. So whatever we have witnessed and seen,

they've seen far more worse. And the psychological trauma, the mental health damage is incalculable amongst all the Gaza and people. But you get back to the UK and almost, not entirely, but almost your entire media is conspiring to hide the truth of what's happening in Gaza and attacking anyone who calls attention to it. How do you? feel about that? Profound anger. I mean, I talk, you have a real, a very complex set of emotions when you leave Gaza having had a trip like this.

You feel guilty that you're getting out and that they can't get out. You feel immense sadness that you're leaving friends who you know may be killed. All my friends out there tell me, and they've said this repeat, they expect to be killed out there. you're leaving patients who probably won't survive but you feel this incredible anger towards your government towards our government our media

and I've you know the media is not particularly interested in listening to what we say now but they were to a degree then and particularly once we've just come out so I did a lot of media stuff and and they were individual journalists. There were some wonderful journalists I've met

and shared my experience with who've been desperately trying to get their media outlets to show this. But, you know, the BBC, I mean, the BBC's, I think, as a corporation's behaved appallingly over the last year and a half years. But that doesn't hire, that, you know, there have been some wonderful BBC journalists

who I know who've been desperately trying to get this out and have been thwarted. Some of them have ended up resigning because they've been so appalled. But there are many really worthy, passionate journalists who want to get the information out there, but they're being controlled and not being allowed to by their senior editorial boards. So it's been hugely frustrating, hugely frustrating. There are also people who've defended it flat out. Certainly here in the United States, there are many people in our media who basically just attack any, who points out what's happening and slander them as haters and Nazis.

What do you think of that? I think it's, I mean, it's profoundly dishonest. I think that so I think a lot about why people are denying this and why they're not allowing it to get out. I think there's certainly in my country, there's a lot of cowardice, a huge amount of cowardice, both in the media. I talk a lot about how our institutions in the UK have. failed Gaza, our academic institutions, our medical institutions, our associations, our royal

colleges, they've all been silent, and our media clearly as well. So I think at one level there's a lot of cowardice. They're petrified they're going to be accused of being anti-Semitic. And the appalling crime of anti-Semitism has been terribly weaponized as a result of what's going on. And people are petrified that if they do, come out and say these things, they will be accused publicly of being anti-Semitic. And of course, that label lasts, doesn't it?

Oh, yeah. So it can't have a job. Yeah, exactly. So it's very difficult for them. I think, but I think it's not, there are many examples, and it's much more malign than that. I think there are clear agendas

to try and shut this all up so that the truth doesn't get out. And I, you know, I mean, it's public knowledge. many of our senior politicians have funded. A lot of their campaigns have been funded by various lobbies with money from Israel. I think all of your politicians.

All of our. I mean, I think it's out there in public. I think you can look at the individual, every single one of them has been. In all three major parties? Yes, but I spend two of the major parties. But yeah, in reform, Labor has been absolutely. I'm accounting reform is a major party now. Absolutely.

You're absolutely right. They have been, and that's all public knowledge. And I think that they, I mean, there's a wonderful, I don't know if you read the book called Complicit by Peter Oborn. He's a well-known British journalist who's written a book called, I'd really urge everyone to read it. It's about the way that the UK media in the government has been complicit in this genocide in Gaza.

And it lays bare all these things about how compromised our politicians are. how compromised our institutions are how compromised our media is. I'll never forget maybe 10 years ago you had this head of the Labor Party who was, you know, an old leftist, all kind of pro-Soviet leftist. I didn't have much in common with him. I never really thought about him. But the one issue on which he was kind of different from, you know, the people who paid for the party was on Israel.

he was skeptical of British support for the state of Israel. And I've never seen a man slandered like he was slandered. Again, it's not my role to defend him. I'm not British and I'm not, you know, an old leftist. But that guy was basically driven on a public life. And after that happened, the Labor Party just kind of swung into alignment with the conservatives and with reform. And basically the entire British political establishment is on the same page. Don't talk about Gaza. Israel's our closest ally. Shut up Nazi. Am I imagining this?

No. You're portraying it exactly as it was. And I'm not a politician. I've got no political agenda. My role, I believe, is to bear witness to what I've seen out there. But it seems very, very clear to me that this, that the weaponization of anti-Semitism is right through. our society. And it's being used to shut people up. And, you know, I've got to know Jeremy Corbyn quite well in the last two or three years. I've shared platforms with him. I was referring to Jeremy Corbyn. Yeah, yeah. And I don't, I, having spoken, I don't believe there's an anti-Semitic cell in his body. I think he is passionately supportive of the Palestinians. And that is what his motivation has been. He tried to get, he tried to pass a bill through Parliament to get a tribunal to investigate what's being going on. It was clearly.

turned down. He ran his own independent tribunal to which I contributed my evidence as well. But there was evidence from a whole host of people. It's a publication worth looking at. And it speaks volumes about the people who have witnessed what's going on out in Gaza

and are desperate to get the truth out there. What's really going on? And describing how the attempts to shut them down have been unacceptable. So I think it's the only reason I bring this up, British politics is obviously not my world at all. I'm definitely nonpartisan when it comes to British politics. But I think at some point when it becomes clear what happened that there was, you know, the largest ethnic cleansing

attempt since the Second World War, since the Nazis, right on the edge of Europe, right across the Mediterranean from Europe, like right there with money and support from the United States and from written, the question is going to arise, like, how did this happen? Where are the people who are supposed to say something about it? Like, how are they able to do this in sight of the world, and the world did nothing? And I think these are part of the answer. Yeah, I mean, it is, it is unfathomable how the world has allowed this to happen. But the evidence is, I mean, I've been to the international criminal court on several occasions to give my evidence. And the evidence they have is vast amount of evidence they have now. Really? Huge amount.

of evidence because they've interviewed many, many people like me who've been out there. I can speak for my own experience of what I've shown to senior politicians, what I've shown to the BBC, you know, I gave them, I mean, I spoke to BBC journalists about my experience with those young teenage boys. I gave them all the evidence I've just shared with you. And the individual journalists were desperate to get it out there, desperate, but they were not allowed to. Not allowed to? Well, listen, I wasn't parted to the editorial discussions, but they were clearly being held back by their seniors, and they never got out there. I mean, I've spoken about it. On camera? On camera. So it's out there. And they never aired it.

But so I, no, I've spoken about it on camera. That evidence I gave was all independent, was, was separate non-public evidence. But they never, they were, they were wanting to develop that into a detailed story, which they never did. So I've only. ever shared that on brief interviews on media in the UK. That is remarkable. But they wouldn't show it. But I mean, there are many examples like that. They have not been, you know, you just have to hear every single BBC

reference to Gaza, to the deaths, to the figures of death. They'll always talk about the Hamas led Ministry of Health. That is clearly a senior policy. Whenever you mention the Gaza Ministry of Health, you have to say that the Hamas led guards and ministers.

In order to discredit their findings. Precisely. I can see why you're a threat to that propaganda operation because you're not working for Hamas. You're working for Oxford. So you have more credibility. So I can see why they wouldn't want to air.

Yeah. So the response is either not to show what we've said or we get accused of, not by the BBC, but other agencies of lying or... Have you been... Are you accused of lying? Multiple times, yeah.

Yeah. What would your motive be for lying? Well, no motive at all. And I'm at pains to point out repeatedly that I'm a humanitarian, I'm not a politician. I am a humanitarian and I am reporting what I've seen with my own eyes. I've borne witness to what I believe to be war crimes almost on a daily basis. I've, you know, the clear as evidence I can imagine in the absence of being an international lawyer of genocide being carried out, ethnic cleansing being carried out. It seems to me, I'm astonished that anyone can look at the evidence and not see what is going on there.

and the evidence is so clear that I think those that refuse to acknowledge it have malign intentions in suppressing that. And it's hard not to see design in all of this. I mean, the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which now has the force of law in a lot of the world, is a crime to say certain things thanks to this definition. And in that definition, one of the examples given is any comparison between the actions of the Israeli government

and the German Nazi regime of the 1930s and 40s? It kind of seems like, because that's the obvious comparison, of course it's the obvious comparison. It kind of seems like that was a preemptive attempt to keep people from noticing the obvious. Yeah, I mean, I see the great value of my testimony describing what I'm seeing rather than trying to make comparisons Right, no, that's fair.

And I think that, and I've seen many other healthcare workers being there do this with all the best of intentions, but it dilutes the strong message I can give. And I don't want to distract from that. So I will, I will, I think the evidence I can describe in my own eyewitness testimony is so powerful by itself that I'll stick to that side. I think that's very wise and more powerful. I agree with you. Do you think what's happening in Gaza is well known within Israel? I have no idea. I mean, it seems very difficult to believe they don't know what's going on. But I guess we've witnessed repeatedly the propaganda coming from Israeli spokesmen who speak to our media. I can only imagine that it's much more extent than that what's going internally.

I think that's right. So, I mean, I remember about a year ago, just as an example of the appalling propaganda, the BBC talks repeatedly about how they have to have a balance approach to this, and it's a false balance. We all know it's a false balance. So they will give X amount of minutes to someone speaking up for what's going on in regards, and they'll give the same amount of...

time to an Israeli spoke to him. And about a year ago, they interviewed my closest friend in Gaza, who I've known for many, many, many years, an inspirational doctor. And by the way, we talk about all the horrors, the atrocities, the sheer evil that I've seen with my own eyes. I've also seen the very, very best of humanity, some of the most inspirational heroes, wonderful people. One of them is a very old friend of mine who I've known for, for some of the most inspirational heroes, wonderful people. One of them is a very old friend of mine who I've known for, for since 2010, from my first trip. He was interviewed, he's a doctor in Gaza. He was interviewed by the BBC of the Radio for Today program,

which is our sort of flagship news program in the morning. And they gave him six, seven minutes, and he interviewed brilliantly. And then immediately after that, they interviewed, one of the Israeli spokesman called David Menser, who had used to work in, I think he headed up. UK Labour Friends of Israel or something. But anyway, he was interviewed and he started off by saying, well, it's important your listeners understand that we know that man who you've interviewed

is not a proper doctor. We know he is a senior commander in the Hamas military and that you cannot accept anything of what he said for the truth. Now, I'm not talking about my opinion here. I'm talking about what are clear facts. I know this man. I've known him for 16 years. He's an inspirational doctor.

What this man, David Mensa, was saying, was a clear lies and deliberate lies. So I contacted the BBC through some of my contacts and got through to the editorial board of David and said, listen, you've knowingly allowed this man to speak lies. You know, these are not different of opinions. These are out and out lies. you need to give me the writer replied speak up for this man who's been maligned on this. And they debated it, but they didn't let me have any writer. And their argument was we feel they've had a balance. They've both had seven minutes and that was a balance.

And of course, that's their stock answer, which is a false balance, is not giving equal exposure. It's got to be so frustrating to live in a country like that. Appalling. Are there any politicians in the UK that you think are? open to doing something about this? Most certainly. I've met many. And again, so it's like the journalists. I've met many great journalists who want to.

I've met many backbench MPs who are appalled by this. The Green Party, I've not met Zach Belonski, Pallancy, but he's spoken out at length. I've spoken at length to Jeremy Corbyn, Zara Sultanah. Many backbench MPs in the Labour Party, the SMP party in Scotland has been brilliant in speaking up. Lib Dems have had people. They've even been one or two Tory backbenches who've been very, very outspoken and very supportive. So there are many people there and they are all waking up.

They have all woken up. We've had some incredible marches in the UK. You'll see pictures of them, you know, getting on for a million people sometimes marching in London and support to Gaza. They're not hate marches as we're being told by reform and the conservatives and our right-wing media. I've been on many of them with my wife, my daughter who are avid marches. They're peace marchers. They're supporting the gals and people who are being ethnically cleansed of being, who are undergoing a genocide. But that has had an impact. There is a huge pressure being exerted by the people who've woken up to what's going on via going to their MPs. And they are having an impact.

I mean, it's nothing like enough. And of course, it's far too late. But there are a lot of backbench MPs who I think are appalled. It's interesting, though. You say it's the right-wing media in the UK that's supportive of Netanyahu's ethnic cleansing in Gaza. In the United States, it's kind of the opposite. It's a lot of former Trump voters who are maddest about what's happening in Gaza. I mean, there's no reason any nationalist should support what's happening in Gaza.

How is that good for the UK? How is that good for the United States? Why do you think conservative media and politicians in the UK have been roped into supporting something that's terrible for the UK? I mean, I don't know the answer to that. And I guess it's, it's, we'd include, I mean, I think our mainstream parties are all like that now. And I think the media supporting the mainstream part is there's very few media outlets in the UK which are support of what's going on in Gaza. So it's perhaps not just the right wing, but I think they are the most vocal about this. I don't know.

That's so disappointing to hear that. I think the book I mentioned complicit by Peter O'Born goes into this a lot of detail. And it's some fascinating insights. but it does seem to be there's a very, very vocal sort of group of commentators on the right who speak out a lot in support of Israel and are very successful in calling out those who are speaking against it. That's so depressing. How are you treated by the Israeli government when you transit through Israel? Can you go there now?

I've not been able to get in the last few months. I'm trying to go. I'm hoping to go in in August, but you never know. They've, in the last few months, they've stopped all people, the majority of people like me who have spoken out have been stopped from going in. They've now banned more than 36 NGOs from taking medics into Gaza. MSF has been banned from going in. Other very well-known humanitarian organizations have.

been banned completely. So about a year, maybe more than a year ago, about a year ago, the Israelis announced they were introducing a new registration process for agencies that wanted to take in doctors to work there, which of course is against international law, because we don't have to be ready. We go into work in the occupied palace and in territories, and our authority is given to us by the Palestinian Authority, but nevertheless, you have to go through the Israeli borders. And their registration process, the document details exclusion criteria

as to what would prevent us being registered. And one of them is that if the organisation or any member of the organisation or any volunteer with the organisation has at any time in the last seven years criticize the state of Israel, that organization will be banned from working in Gaza or the West Bank. Now, that will exclude a significant majority of the most prominent humanitarian organizations. You probably wouldn't be there in the first place if you supported what Israel was doing.

If you were for ethnic cleansing. So it's made it very, very difficult for humanitarian teams to get in there. So how do hospitals in the one remaining hospital in Gaza, which by the way, I should ask at the outset, what do you think the population of Gaza is right now? So it's a good question. So the official figures from the Ministry of Health, recognized by the United Nations and indeed recognized by the Israeli military now, is about 76,000 killed by trauma alone. The Lancet Medical Journal, which has published brilliantly. 76,000. just from trauma, the Lancet Medical Journal, which has published brilliantly, estimates,

because there are many thousands of people buried under the rubble, including friends of mine. So they estimate with great authority, I think, that that has underestimated it by about 50%. So there are probably 100,000 killed directly by trauma. but that excludes the excess deaths. We'll remember that term from the COVID pandemic, those people dying of non-COVID-related calls like cancer or kidney disease. In Gaza, there has been no cancer really being treated for two and a half years.

No kidney disease. Many of the dialysis machines in Schiefer Hospital were destroyed by the Israeli army when they went in there. So there are many other, there's 350,000 people in Gaza who have chronic illnesses that require regular medical treatment, which aren't being treated. So there are many infectious diseases, malnutrition we've talked about. So there are many, many people dying of excess tests. Now, the Lancet estimates, again, they Lancet estimated 18 months ago that that figure was probably about 180,000 on top of the trauma deaths.

There are other estimates, and of course these are difficult to be overly accurate, but there are some estimates that it's at least several hundred thousand. I had one estimate saying it was over half a million excess deaths. Now even if you just take the first perhaps conservative Lancet figure of 186,000, when you include the trauma deaths, that's over a quarter of a million. That is well over 10% of the population of Gaza. And the more extreme examples are more than 20% of the population of Gaza. So the population of Gaza in on October the 6th, 2023 was about 2.2 million. It's certainly under 2 million now. I mean, it's shocking. And for that, whatever that number is, but over a million people, there's one major hospital. That's it. So, yeah, I mean,

so NASA Hospital is the only really major hospital still functioning, but it is not functioning fully. I mean, I was, when I was there, we run out of stuff the whole time. I talked about often having no pain killers to give patients. We had, I had one two-week period when we had no sterile drapes to use in the operating theatre. So we, you know, use sterile drapes to create a sterile operating field so you can operate, reducing the risk of infections. We had one two-week period when we had no sterile drapes. So we had to sort of make our owns out of gowns and, you know, we couldn't create proper sterile fields. We had another period of time when we had no running water in the operating theatres. So we couldn't scrub up properly.

So we had to use alcohol jelly on our hands. Oh, come on. There are occasions, and I've talked about the lack of nutrition giving to patients. We had some days when, you know, there's been no electricity in Gaza since October the 7th. So the hospitals are totally reliant upon their own fuels sources, which they get some from the United Nations as well. But they're always under threat of running out of fuel. And there have been multiple examples when fuel has routed on the hospitals. So when the fuel runs out, there is no power. When there's no power, the ventilators don't work. So patients on ventilators die. When there's no fuel, the powers for the incubators for the newborn babies can't work. So those babies die. There was a...

an episode about 18 months ago, I think, an Al-Nasa Pediatric Hospital in Gaza City, I think about 18 months ago, when the Israeli military invasion of the hospital kicked out all the local staff, and there were six neonates left in the incubators when they were kicked out. And they said, you know, there are six babies there, and they were assured they'd be fine. The Israeli military left after two or three weeks, and the doctors, you know, some of whom I knew, went back in there. And those six babers were there in the incubators dead. Their body's rotting. Oh, come on now.

And there are many other similar stories like that. So, you know, these things are happening. How do you feel that your tax dollars go to the Israeli government? I'm appalled and I'm disgusted. And I've said this to our politicians. You know, we've gone and spoken to them. We've spoken to our prime minister. A few of us spoke to him.

To Keir-Starmor? Yeah, to Keir-Starmor. I mean, it was, and we've talked about, you know, the fact that our government is still, you know, they claim there's an arms embargo. There isn't. We're still supplying parts for the F-35 jets. The Royal Air Force is flying reconnaissance flights from Cyprus over Gaza on a daily basis, giving military intelligence to the Gaza. Why? To the Israeli military because of the relationship we have with Israel, because of our support for Israel. But Israel murdered so many British diplomats and military officers at the founding of the country.

Why would the British government owe anything to Israel, which again was founded by murdering representatives of the British government? You're absolutely right. And I don't know the answer to that. I mean, we can all speculate, but it is bizarre. I don't understand it. I mean, there is the clearest evidence in my view that, that, you know, our governments are complicit in what's going on there, and they need to be held to account. Last question, do you plan to go back?

Yes, I'm trying to get in in August. I've applied to go in. Many of the NGOs that I know well have been banned, so I'm trying to go in with another one at the moment. So I hope to. I know that because I've spoken out so much, the chance of Israel refusing the entry is very high. But I will keep going. I will keep trying. We're killing you once you get there. Yeah. I mean, there's no question that being in Gaza is unbelievably dangerous. I've been injured out there from a bomb injury. There's no question that it's very dangerous.

But statistically, there has not yet been a single foreign doctor killed there. And I'm not in any way understating the dangers of being there. and of course is a very dangerous place and of course one you know at times you feel fear when you're out there but trying to explain what I'm speaking on as many others would what motivates us

whatever we feel at any one time is a complex mix of a whole different set of emotions so fear is one of them desire to be there helping your friends is a very powerful incentive and that to me

when I'm out there is by far and away the dominant emotion. So that outweighs any fear we may have. And that's, you know, it's not just, it's a lot of us are like this. We, we have this, we're so disturbed by what's going on there. We're so disturbed by how, by how much our governments are complicit in this. What is being done to the gardens is so, fundamentally wrong, not just in the last two years, but for decades. What's being done to them is so fundamentally wrong that those of us who've had the great

privilege of knowing and loving the Garzan people for so many years and working with them have this absolute obligation. And I couldn't imagine doing it any other way of having to go out there and help them. What does your family think? Very supportive. My wife, Manula is as passionate as I am about the Garzans and the Palestinians. I mentioned earlier we have a Garzan daughter, informally a Garzan daughter called Enas, who we love dearly. She's never been able to go back to Gaza.

She's become a member of our family. Our house has been over years has been a bit of a refuge for Garzan medical students and guys and doctors who've managed to escape. They often come and stay with us or we feel. them up with other friends for accommodation. We've managed to take two wonderful gals and medical students into Oxford. We've managed to get them part of our medical school now in Oxford. So my wife, I don't think I could do all of this without Funula's support and she's, she's as heroic as any of us in supporting me in this respect. And my kids likewise, I mean my daughter, I've got a daughter

and two sons, they're all very passionate. My daughters are full-time activists most of the time, but they're all very supportive. And of course, before I go, I go and talk to them all individually and explain, they know why I'm going and I go with their complete blessing. Godspeed. Dr. Marin, thank you very much. Thank you very much for meeting me, and I've really enjoyed it. You've got me going. If you made it through the end of that, thank you for watching. We'll see you next Wednesday.