#Dr. SEEMA JILANI

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De retour de Gaza, le Dr. Seema Jilani raconte l'horreur dans les hôpitaux.

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We speak with Dr. Seema Jilani, a pediatrician who spent two weeks in Central Gaza volunteering in the Al-Aqsa Hospital emergency room. "I saw the fall of a hospital before my very own eyes," says Jilani, who shares recorded voice notes from her time in the besieged territory while trying to save children in a health system collapsing under Israeli pressure and bombing. "I have never treated this many war-wounded children in my career." Finally, Jilani shares why she continues to serve as a doctor in war zones with the International Rescue Committee. "It is the absolute honor of my life to serve the people of Gaza," she says. "It is all of our responsibility to consider those orphans, consider those families who are completely bereft of any and all human dignity that has been taken from them. … Their fate will sit with us."

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“Unconscionable”: American Pediatrician Who Worked in Gaza Hospital Recalls Horrors of Israel’s War

Democracy Now! speaks with Dr. Seema Jilani, a pediatrician who spent two weeks in Central Gaza volunteering in the Al-Aqsa Hospital emergency room. “I saw the fall of a hospital before my very own eyes,” says Jilani, who shares recorded voice notes from her time in the besieged territory while trying to save children in a health system collapsing under Israeli pressure and bombing. “I have never treated this many war-wounded children in my career.” Finally, Jilani shares why she continues to serve as a doctor in war zones with the International Rescue Committee. “It is the absolute honor of my life to serve the people of Gaza,” she says. “It is all of our responsibility to consider those orphans, consider those families who are completely bereft of any and all human dignity that has been taken from them. … Their fate will sit with us.”

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SF: You’ve said, “As a pediatrician, I expected to not be particularly useful.” Why is that?

Dr. Jilani: I expect that, in a war, that the rules of engagement apply. That means protection of hospitals, protection of civilians, and as much protection as possible of children. The scale and the proportionality of children that I was seeing is unlike any other conflict I have been in. It was staggering. I didn’t expect to see that many children. I think in one of my voice notes, I noted within my line of sight, there were six children that needed urgent or emergent attention. In one case where we had our code room, which is where you actively resuscitate people from the brink of death, basically. Four out of five of our patients were kids under the age of thirteen. That is appalling.

SF: And in your experience of doing this work for twenty years, a complete aberration.

Dr. Jilani: Yes, absolutely.

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This American is one of the few allowed into Gaza. This is the horror she saw : NPR

Dr. Seema Jilani treats a baby at al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza. Tarneem Hammad/MAP hide caption toggle caption Tarneem Hammad/MAP Dr. Seema Jilani treats a baby at al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza. Tarneem Hammad/MAP Very few people are allowed to enter Gaza right now. Dr. Seema Jilani, an American, is one of them. She spent two weeks working at a hospital there and witnessed horrors play out before…

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Survivors of the Beirut explosion recount feeling the blast, its horrific aftermath Dr. Seema Jilani recounts being both physician and mother to her injured 4-year-old daughter after a massive explosion tore through Lebanon’s capital city.