I want you to listen to the testimony of a surgeon from California who donated, volunteered his time in Gaza. Back here in New York, testifying before the Security Council, we’re going to invite him onto the program. I was so deeply moved when I saw this clip that Chris found, which we’ll show to you now. Chris, number 17. My name is Dr. Feroz Sidwa. I am an American trauma and critical care surgeon based in Stockton, California. I come before you today to speak about the Gaza Strip, where I volunteered twice since October 7th.

The Constitution of the World Health Organization states that the health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security and is dependent on the fullest cooperation of individuals and states. I’ve taken this to heart and it is the reason I volunteer in conflict zones from Haiti to Ukraine to Gaza. I did not see or treat a single combatant during my five weeks in Gaza. My patients were six-year-olds with shrapnel in their heart and bullets in their brains and pregnant women whose pelvises had been obliterated and their medical system has not failed.

It has been systematically dismantled through a sustained military campaign that has willfully violated international humanitarian law. Civilians are now dying not just from the constant airstrikes but from acute malnutrition, sepsis, exposure, and despair. This is a man-made catastrophe. It is entirely preventable. Participating in it or not, allowing it to happen, is a choice. This is a deliberate denial of conditions necessary for life, food, shelter, water, and medicine. Preventing genocide means refusing to normalize these atrocities. It means refusing to dehumanize the Palestinians, to refuse to see them as calories counted or numbers of trucks moved.

We see now that this way of thinking has brought about a human dignity crisis with an entire people on the edge of survival. The only thing I would add is and was paid for by the American taxpayer. It was supported by the United States starting with the Biden administration and now the Trump administration. We are complicit in a genocide and what that doctor said is merely the tip of the iceberg as anybody who’s been following this conflict knows. This is just absolutely horrific. It’s just hard to believe. It’s hard to believe that we haven’t stopped it.

It’s even harder to believe that we’re involved in executing it. Again, the Israelis could not execute it without us supporting them. [tr:trw].

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