The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
May 29, 2025

Int'l Doctors Barred from Entering Gaza as U.S. Surgeon Testifies "Child Protections in Gaza Are Gone"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

International doctors and healthcare workers report they're increasingly
being blocked by Israel from entering Gaza, with specialists approved
for exits but denied new entry visas in what advocates are calling an
"undeclared medical siege."

On Wednesday, U.S. trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa testified to the
U.N. Security Council about his time spent as an emergency doctor at the
European Hospital in Gaza, where he treated young children severely
injured by explosives.

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa: "Children are supposed to be protected. In Gaza,
these protections are simply gone. Every day, the distinction between
combatant and civilian is erased. Most of my patients were preteen
children, their bodies shattered by explosives and torn by flying metal.
… The 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."



.