Israel Almost Killed This US Doctor. US Embassy Says It’s Not Their ‘Role’ to Protect Him

From the south of Gaza, *trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter* huddle in front of their webcam at Nasser Hospital to describe the horrors they’ve witnessed over the last week since Israel broke the ceasefire.

_“We're losing friends all the time. We all have medical student friends that we befriended last year that are now dead,”_ Dr. Perlmutter tells Mehdi Hasan.

Dr. Sidhwa, meanwhile, had a closer-than-usual brush with death this week when an Israeli airstrike on the hospital killed his 17-year-old patient. He pointed out on Twitter how he could have been killed, too.

_“I got a call from the US Embassy after I sent out that tweet, because I think people saw it, and the lady said, ‘Hi, this is the embassy. We just want to make sure you're okay.’ And I was like, yeah, I'm fine. If you want to be sure I stay okay, maybe you could ask the Israelis not to bomb Nasser Hospital again, and I swear to God, she goes, ‘Actually, that's not our role, sorry.’”_

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Watch the full interview to hear the heartbreaking stories that both doctors share with Mehdi, including how Dr. Perlmutter was forced to use a drill bit to fix a child’s fractured arm, and how Dr. Sidhwa treated a family attacked by an Israeli Apache helicopter. They also tackle the Israeli claim that fighters are hiding in Gaza’s hospitals.

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