This is not War! Eye witness from Nasser Hospital
JVL Introduction
This testimony is from an interview with a Greek doctor recently returned from a month working in Nasser hospital, Khan Yunis in Southern Gaza. We felt it important to share for its clarity – despite the rather imperfect translation from the original Greek. What is clear from his experience is how children, journalists and doctors have been targeted, sometimes with the worst sort of ordnance and barbaric cruelty.
His testimony includes: “I can’t say I went to war. War is a very different thing. There was no war in Treblinka, there was no war in Auschwitz. War has two armies. Here you have a population mainly of civilians and women, who have no possibility of escape. And it’s systematically raining bombs from sky. They beat hospitals, they beat journalists. The conditions of my colleagues there were tragic. “
That paragraph continues: “But there’s still an optimistic part, imagine we even did homework! They had an exam for the interns. During the time I was there, we took multiple-choice exams for the internship batch, to advance for their degree and receive their majors degree.”
At the end of this article, we have included an interview with British doctor Tanya Haj Hassan, who had worked in the same hospital and where Dr. Alaa Al Najjar, nine of whose children were killed also worked. Dr. Hassan berates the BBC for its coverage and failing to show the documentary “Medics Under Fire” that it had commissioned. This is another reason for posting this piece, to keep reminding people that this is happening and, as she says “is not new”.
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This article was originally published by Η εφημερίδα των συντακτών on Sun 25 May 2025. Read the original here.
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A journalist’s job is not to report each side’s view. The job of a journalist is to investigate, research and report the truth.
There’s to be a demonstration round Parliament on Wednesday 4 June at 11.30am. Everyone should try to get there, if possible, dressed in red. There’s also an early day motion on Monday 2nd June which it’s crucial peoples’ MPs should sign.
The BBC presenter clearly needs to read the account of the Greek doctor, especially his comment that, “I can’t say I went to war. War is a very different thing. There was no war in Treblinka, there was no war in Auschwitz. War has two armies. Here you have a population mainly of civilians and women, who have no possibility of escape.”
In fact, in true BBC style for this time she went one step cooler, calling what the Israelis were doing a “military operation” – a complete evisceration of the language, an expression worthy of the most soulless apparatchik, in complete willful blindness to what the doctor was trying to convey.
During the BBC interview with Dr Tanya Haj Hassan, the Dr tried with some success to ague that the ‘balance’ the interviewer continually felt was required of a BBC employee to which she must return to, was false. After the evidence transmitted to our homes for the last 19 months, the killers of at least 55,000 Gazans have, or should have no airtime.
This continual pretence that ‘balance’ is required in all cases and is rightly complied with by the BBC is utterly disingenuous. It is a fake balance, an unnecessary balance similar to the ‘balance’ afforded climate-change deniers when about 99.99% of scientists and scientific evidence showed time for debate was over. As Gary Lineker put to Amol Rajan (who carried on without addressing it) ‘facts are the most important thing, it’s like that old thing that if it’s raining outside you don’t need someone’s opinion to say it’s not, what you want to see is actually what is the weather outside. What Dr Tanya Haj Hassan and Gary Lineker failed to understand is that Israel has somehow been awarded the status of ‘Special Case’.