In Beirut (Lebanon)
In the streets, from Hamra to Beirut, passers-by whisper his name as if he were the hero of a Hollywood film.
“Look, it’s Dr. Ghassan,”
one of them says familiarly, rushing to approach him.
In the Lebanese capital, Ghassan Abu Sitta, who has headed the plastic surgery department at the city's American University Medical Center (AUBMC) since 2012, never goes unnoticed.
For thirty years, the specialist in facial reconstruction, particularly for young patients, has been reshaping the ravaged faces and tortured bodies of victims of the wars which bloody the region.
Not long ago, this Lebanese-Palestinian was on a mission in Syria and Iraq.
More recently, in Yemen and Sudan.
But it is to Gaza that he keeps coming back.
The first time was as part of a university exchange, at the end of the 1980s. The ups and downs of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict then regularly brought him back there: during the second Intifada…
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