Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, an American trauma surgeon volunteering in Gaza, told Antiwar.com that he came close to being hit by an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Sunday night and killed a 16-year-old boy he was treating.
Sidhwa said that he was on his way to the male surgical ward, which was hit by the Israeli airstrike, when someone asked him to help with a patient who was bleeding in the ICU.
“So I went in there and helped, and about 10 minutes later, the explosion happened,” Sidhwa said. “So I probably would have been standing right next to Ibrahim, the boy [who died].”
Sidhwa said that he planned to change the boy’s medical dressing. “I probably would have been standing next to him and talking to his family when that explosion happened if they hadn’t pulled me into the unit like that,” he said.
The bombing also killed Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, who was being treated at the hospital. The Israeli military took credit for the strike and said Barhoum was the target.
Sidhwa pointed out that it would never be acceptable for Hamas to target an Israeli official receiving treatment at a hospital. “You can’t bomb hospitals just because there are people in there that you suspect of being criminals or even being a threat to you,” he said.
“Benjamin Netanyahu stands accused of genocide and many other crimes, and he had his prostate taken out in late December. He was in the hospital for four days. Nobody could have possibly imagined that Hamas would be allowed to bomb the hospital where he was and that people would say, ‘Oh yeah, that was legitimate,'” Sidhwa added.
Sidhwa said the strike was the first time one of his patients was “killed by violence in a hospital bed” and called for the US to stop arming Israel. “We just need to stop, we just need to stop, we just need to stop,” he said, referring to the US government supplying bombs to Israel.
Last week, Sidhwa detailed his experience when Israel restarted its massive bombing campaign in Gaza on March 11, saying that he and other medical staff at the Nasser Hospital operated “almost exclusively on women and children.”
Other doctors working in Gaza reported similar experiences when the bombing restarted. “At no point were there less than 65 people in ER, all with open wounds, mainly women and children … The floor was awash with blood,” Dr. Mark Perlmutter, another American volunteer who was working at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza at the time, told The Guardian.
"Sidhwa pointed out that it would never be acceptable for Hamas to target an Israeli official receiving treatment at a hospital. " That is true in would not be acceptable. But Hamas if they had the chance would do it, it simply would not be acceptable.
That is true in would not be acceptable. But Hamas if they had the chance would do it, it simply would not be acceptable
I'm not sure exactly what the point of that gibberish is but Hamas has been designated as terrorists by our state department. And we do know that Isreal has no problem doing it, so putting 2+2 together we get Israel being a terrorist organization. But they have state of the art weapons to carry out their terrorism which puts them at the top of the list.
You'd have no moral ground to stand on whatsoever if they would in that hypothetical situation, since you find it very acceptable for Israel to not only bomb one hospital without any Hamas official in it but also find it more than just acceptable to completely wipe out all medical infrastructure, then cause maximal death to the most vulnerable, the sick and incapacitated, elderly, children and babies, block all aid medical, food, water and electricity and shelter and clothing to create famine, while optimizing circumstances for uncontrolled spread of viral and bacterial infectious diseases. And that is not a hypothetical. You have gone much further than to just be a hypocrite and you have had ample opportunity to pull back from the moral abyss you chose to jump into.
And Hamas has shown to be infinitely morally superior to Israel, and not only due to the Israeli abandoning whatever their tenuous ties to humanity ever where.
And it doesn’t matter to Israel, the US, the bought Arab state leaders and most of the west.
Your patient was Hamas, you are Hamas, the babies are Hamas, the walls are Hamas, the staircase, the roof, the walls, the air, the earth is Hamas.
The Palestinians can become the most loving angels tomorrow and they still will be Hamas in need to be killed by the barbarians.
Palestinians are decent people today, yesterday and tomorrow.
USS Liberty, Rachel Corrie, what's one more dead American when Israel feels like doing something?
There’s an old expression!…
“Keep your friends close! Keep your enemies even closer!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anti-war_songs
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58585/pg58585-images.html
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/03/25/745013/Iran-Israel-child-killing-erasure-Palestinian-identity-mass-killings
This will freak you out:
https://youtu.be/v4OdkaTqmDs?si=p0Orc3U_B5JThDPe
The Zionists and the western colonial powers used the holocaust to set up shop in the Middle East and control one country after another. so far they have destroyed six, one more – Iran – to go. All under the name of the Holocaust and defense. sick people.
Sidhwa pointed out that it would never be acceptable for Hamas to target an Israeli official receiving treatment at a hospital. “You can’t bomb hospitals just because there are people in there that you suspect of being criminals or even being a threat to you,” he said.
You can when you are a terrorist organization with the backing of the superpower.
If and when he gets back to US… this doctor could be arrested and put in prison (or killed) because of doing anti-semitic activity in Gaza…!