Surgeon speaks to campus community about 12-day mission in Gaza

Even before the total blockade now imposed on the Palestinian enclave, the Israeli authorities were already imposing drastic and arbitrary controls denounced as "harassment" by NGOs.

Surgeon speaks to campus community about 12-day mission in Gaza

Dr. Mohamed Elfar, a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon, shared his firsthand account of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza with students last week. The talk was hosted by the Arab Student Association in collaboration with Students for Justice in Palestine, the Global Public Health Student Association, the Muslim Student Association and the Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies and was held to “raise awareness and foster i…

Twelve of the world’s most important humanitarian organizations have signed an appeal, published on April 18, that contains this phrase: “Famine is not just a risk, but a reality that threatens to spread rapidly throughout almost the Gaza Strip. The UN has warned that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is the worst that it has experienced in the last eighteen months.” Under the title “Let us do our job,” it underlines the urgency of the situation i…