Unprecedented War Crimes: Eyewitness Truth in Gaza Hospitals w/ Dr. Thaer Ahmad

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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WATCH the video version of this interview at https://youtu.be/REnN_dLtrLA?si=tFgXPMntN-lkEgv5 Having just returned from nearly a month treating the wounded in Gaza, emergency physician Dr. Thaer Ahmad talks with Abby Martin about the abduction/torture of doctors and hospitals under constant siege. Cutting through mainstream propaganda, Dr. Ahmad also sets the stage for the coming crisis of starvation. Dr. Ahmad is the Global Health Director at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Chicago. VIDEOS + MERCH + SOCIALS + PATREON + EXCLUSIVE CONTENT :: https://linktr.ee/empirefiles MUSIC by Anahedron

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Abby Martin. You're listening to the audio version of this episode,
0:04.8	which you can watch at YouTube.com slash Empire Files.
0:09.3	At least 340 health professionals have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, making it
0:15.2	currently the most dangerous place to be a medical worker. While they heroically stand beside their patients in besieged
0:22.4	hospitals, other doctors heroically leave the safety of their home countries and risk their
0:28.1	lives to travel to Gaza to help. Dr. Thayer Ahmed is one of those doctors who left his home
0:35.7	and his family in the U.S. to enter Gaza during escalating
0:39.1	violence. Dr. Offed is an emergency medicine physician and global health director at Advocate
0:45.4	Christ Medical Center in Chicago. In January 2024, he spent nearly a month in the Gaza Strip
0:52.1	providing emergency care to the wounded and dying under Israeli bombs and bullets.
0:57.1	While the mainstream media mostly ignores the reality on the ground in Gaza,
1:01.3	Dr. Ahmed's account is one that must be amplified as the genocide enters a new phase of widespread starvation.
1:10.5	Thank you so much for joining me today on the Empire Files.
1:13.0	I really appreciate your time.
1:15.1	Thank you for having me.
1:17.1	So you spent three weeks in Gaza.
1:19.9	You were volunteering at Al Nasser Hospital and Khan Yunus.
1:23.5	Doctor, the photos coming out of Gaza right now are completely horrifying.
1:28.2	Just literal skin and bones on starved children, elderly people.
1:34.8	UNICEF is warning of an explosion of child deaths if immediate aid is not administered right now.
1:42.9	Can you just kind of give us the scope and scale of what we're
1:46.2	seeing in terms of starvation on the ground and also what you expect to come? And who's most at
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