Throughout his rich career, Professor Raphaël Pitti has explored conflict zones.
This former military doctor experienced the hell of Yugoslavia, Lebanon, the Gulf War, and more recently that of Syria and Ukraine.
But never anything comparable to the situation in Gaza.
“Usually civilians can flee fighting.
Here it is impossible.
The population has no place to protect themselves.
Hundreds of thousands of people are wandering the streets in search of water and food
,” says this experienced anesthetist-resuscitator.
And added:
“The situation is close to that of the
Warsaw ghetto ,
”
where 380,000 Jews were crowded together by the Nazis from 1940, in inhumane living conditions.
On January 22, Professor Pitti took the lead of around twenty humanitarian doctors from the NGO PalMed (Palestine Medical), who left to provide assistance to their Palestinian colleagues.
The team of volunteers worked until February 6 at the hospital…
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