Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon based in London, has spent much of his professional life in the operating rooms of conflict zones, Mondoweiss reports.

In his youth, he hesitated to pursue a career in medicine. His father was a doctor, and he, like many children of physicians, thought he wanted something else, maybe a career in the social sciences.

Dr Abu-Sittah was among the last group of people to enter Gaza through Egypt on the morning of Monday, October 9, immediately before the Rafah crossing was totally shut down and the territory was sealed off from the world.

Since leaving Gaza in November, Abu-Sittah has committed his days to fighting the “killing machine masquerading as a state” set on extinguishing life in Gaza. He has attended conferences, provided eyewitness testimony, and taken more interviews to advocate for a ceasefire however he can.

In recent weeks, he has launched the Ghassan Abu-Sittah Children’s Fund, a program committed to bringing injured children from Gaza to Lebanon to receive holistic, longitudinal medical and psychosocial care.

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