Episode 11: The doctor who’s witnessed Israel’s wars on Palestinians since 1982 | Mads Gilbert | UNAPOLOGETIC

“There shall be no trace of Palestinian society, culture, history because they going to be wiped out… This is I think the plan for the Zionists.”

Mads Gilbert is a Norwegian anesthesiologist and emergency medicine specialist who has made frequent trips since 1982 to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza to help deliver urgent medical care to Palestinian victims of Israeli atrocities.

On UNAPOLOGETIC he shares his experiences, and how by providing medical services he has come to understand both Israel and the Palestinian liberation struggle against occupation and colonisation. 

He is a firm advocate on the right for Palestinians to resist the occupation with arms within the confines of International law.

He is a firm advocate on the right for Palestinians to resist the occupation with arms within the confines of International law.

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:12 The medical situation in Gaza
• 4:57 First trip to Lebanon in 1982
• 7:28 Israel's brutality in 1982 Lebanon
• 10:22 Learning about the Palestinian story and Israeli colonialism
• 12:30 The epistemicide of the Palestinians
• 16:12 Did you think there would be justice after Bierut 1982
• 19:30 A brief history of Israeli impunity
• 23:00 International law is being torn up
• 25:12 Gaza's gas and continental shelf
• 27:33 Did you think this would go on for 7 months
• 30:41 Society let the holocaust happen and are doing the same now
• 32:00 The importance of Palestinian resistance
• 35:40 Gaza health care workers killed and tortured
• 39:00 accuracy of health stats out of Gaza
• 42:00 Scale of the destruction
• 45:50 heroism of Palestinian healthcare workers
• 50:00 Impact of Israel's siege on health pre October 7th
• 52:40 800 people to 1 toilet in Gaza right now
• 55:10 history of false accusations against al Shifa hospital
• 58:35 Fake claims against UNRWA
• 1:01:00 ever heard of an Israeli hospital or ambulance bombed
• 1:02:30 Right to resist with arms
• 1:04:22 Gaza 2008
• 1:07:37 Compassion fatigue
• 1:10:26 Our obligation is to rebuild Gaza
• 1:13:39 Protests need to translate into electoral losses
• 1:15:17 Not a difficult conflict a difficult occupation
• 1:17:00 What if the worst happens
• 1:20:30 The pier may be used for sinister reasons
• 1:23:00 We are all Gaza