Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitta calls out western media's dehumanization of Arab Muslims

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"Sky News, "How are you feeling?" Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, "Most of the people I know in Gaza are searching through the rubble of their homes for the bodies of their loved ones" "My colleagues in the health system are making their way back to the ruins of the different hospitals to see how we can start rebuilding the health system" "Over 950 health workers have been killed by Israel in this genocidal war, we remember their bravery" "Doctors killed in their houses.. Tortured in Israeli prisons" "Today is a day we think of our dead, we think of our people and we plan for tomorrow" "Despite the attempt to erase the Palestinian people, tomorrow is a Palestinian day" "13,000 Palestinian women and children who need immediate surgery.. 33 hospitals destroyed, 12 universities destroyed.. 22,000 Palestinian children have been orphaned.. 4,500 Palestinian children with amputations.. 15 months of genocidal erasure" "We now need to help the people in Gaza mend their wounds and fix their lives" Sky News, "It is intolerable that so many children have died, been maimed. You may have heard the Israeli government spokesman who said it was Hamas who started this conflict on October 7th with their brutality.. What do people think about Hamas, do they wish they had never broken through the border, fired 4,300 rockets, do they wish that had never happened?" Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, "We wish that 1948 never happened.. That Israel had not tried to wipe out the indigenous population of Palestine and turned our families into refugees.. That the Sabra and Shatila massacre didn't happen.. That the killings of the first and second intifadas and all of the wars in Gaza had never happened" "This is a war against the Palestinian people.. To randomly pick a point at which to say this is when we will accept history" "What lies at the heart of the narrative of the Israeli spokesman whose boss is now wanted by the International Criminal Court, so he literally works for a wanted war criminal.. What marks his discourse is the racial othering of Palestinians" "The fact that he finds 18,000 Palestinian dead children completely ungrievable. He does not find it in any way problematic that his arm amputated the limbs of over 4,500 Palestinian children" "Your channel refers to Palestinians are prisoners, even the children arrested without trial. And the Israelis as hostages. Is a gain a racialised othering of Palestinians that has allowed the genocide to happen for 15 months" "Our lives don't matter. Neither to you, or to him, because of the colour of our skin, because we are Arab muslims. The racialised othering of Palestinians allowed this genocide to take place"" - Source

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