Just how extreme are we talking in terms of sexual torture?

Well, I've taken testimonies myself when I was in Gaza of two friends of mine, a young male nurse, a young male doctor who were both abducted and illegally detained from their hospitals in Gaza back in.

the early part of 2024, and they described in graphic detail how they had had electric shocks pass through their penises, how they had specifically had their genitals beaten repeatedly day after day after day whilst being told, and I quote them here, this will stop you having any more terrorist children.

So I'm being graphic because these are the exact words they use with me.

They describe the most appalling abuse.

We've also heard about the abuse in some of the detent Israeli prisons, that of Adnan al-Bursh, for example, an iconic orthopaedic surgeon who was abducted illegally.

He was killed under torture and a sky invested to give journalists detailed that his mode of abuse of his of his torture had been being raped systematically daily for two weeks.

What are the demands, people like yourself, doctors like yourself, on the British government?

What did you witness with your own eyes? Maybe you can tell us something about this experience.

Yes, I think this was-- On each trip I've been into Gaza, the malnutrition has been getting worse.

My fir- first trip to Gaza post October the 7th was Christmas '23, just a couple of months afterwards, and even then we were beginning to see the signs of malnutrition.

Each trip, it's been worse.

And my last trip, I was there last summer at, at Nasser Hospital, um, and it was during that trip that I wrote that article for The Guardian.

I saw the most terrible signs of malnutrition.

Pa- children of mine, particularly children who are dying.

Could you tell us a specific story, one person from Gaza, about one person from Gaza that you will never forget?

So I'm going to hand over to you, Nick, and I will pop back later with some questions from the audience.

Thank you, Diana.

I hope my screen is up.

It's a great honour to be asked by you to come and talk to you all today.

And the title of my talk, as you can see, is Gaza, a war on health care.

The picture that you see on the left is a won first prize in the world press photography competition back in 2024 and that's a picture of a lady holding the body of her dead niece in jabalia a place you'll be very familiar with and on the right that photograph won first prize in the world press photography competition in 2025 and that's a young nine-year-old boy who has lost both of his limbs and there are currently about four and a half thousand child amputees in Gaza.

I've spent 16 years going in and out of Gaza, at least once a year, except for Covid, sometimes two or even three times a year.

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What did you find when you got there?

I remember approaching it from this-- We'd had a sort of very long crossing the northern Sinai, going through all the Egyptian military checkpoints.

And, um, it was a...

I, I always remember this.

It was a beautiful day, beautifully sunny, no clouds in the sky.

And then you could see, as we approached Rafah from Egypt, you could see, as we approached the Egyptian part of Rafah, you could see this low-lying cloud.Over the whole of southern Gaza, which of course was smoke from the bombs, and you could smell it from about two or three miles away.

You could smell the burning, and it was awful.

Yes

Can you explain what you're saying?

Yes, thank you very much for inviting me back.

One of the big differences on this most recent spell in Gaza compared to previous trips during this war has been the huge number of gunshot wounds I've had to treat and specifically gunshot wounds in young teenage boys who have been shot at the food distribution centres, the so-called Garson Humanitarian Fund.

The boys are aged from anything from 11 to 15, 16.

They are going there to get food for their starving families.

And the narrative, the stories I'm getting from their families from some of the victims and indeed from my Gazan healthcare colleagues who have been to these food distribution sites is very much the same from all of them.

They are going to get food.

Describe what you're saying.

Can you explain what you're saying?

Yes, thank you very much for inviting me back.

One of the big differences on this most recent spell in Gaza compared to previous trips during this war has been the huge number of gunshot wounds I've had to treat and specifically gunshot wounds in young teenage boys who have been shot at the food distribution centres, the so-called Garson Humanitarian Fund.

The boys are aged from anything from 11 to 15, 16.

They are going there to get food for their starving families.

And the narrative, the stories I'm getting from their families from some of the victims and indeed from my Gazan healthcare colleagues who have been to these food distribution sites is very much the same from all of them.

They are going to get food.

Describe what you're saying.

Can you explain what you're saying?

Yes, thank you very much for inviting me back.

Um, one of the big differences on this most recent spell in Gaza compared to previous trips during this war has been the huge number of gunshot wounds I've had to treat, and specifically gunshot wounds in young teenage boys who have been shot at the food distribution centers, the so-called Gazan Humanitarian Fund.

Uh, the boys are aged from, anything from 11 to 15, 16.

They are going there to get food for their starving families, and the narrative, the stories I'm getting from their families, um, from some of the victims, and indeed from my Gazan healthcare colleagues who have been to these food distribution sites, it's very much the same from all of them, that they are going to get food, it is chaos, there is rioting there, and they are being shot by Israeli soldiers and by the quadcopter drones, uh, which are, are, are all over Gaza at the moment.

And even more disturbing from that, there is a very clear pattern that, that the emergency doctors in the ER have recognized and, indeed, the surgeons like me have recognized, that there is a cluster of injuries to particular body parts on particular days.

So, for example, one day there'll be, most of them will be coming in with gunshot wounds to the head and neck.

In your piece you describe a seven-month-old infant, saying, quote, "The phrase'skin and bones' doesn't do justice." Describe what you're seeing.

Uh, what have you seen there?

Um, uh, uh, what I've seen in the...

I mean, I've been in the, in Nasser Hospital the whole time over the last four weeks, so I've seen the effects of the malnutrition, of the forced starvation.

I've seen, uh, the hospital where no food, no nutritional, um, support for the patients has been coming in at all.

Um, I have witnessed, uh, formula feed, for example, being confiscated at the border by the Israeli border guards, not letting any specific formula feed for newborn infants to come in.

Uh, we know that for the whole of the last 21 months there's been inadequate aid and food coming in.

Uh, what do you know about what's happened at these locations?

So, I've seen many patients who have been shot at these food distribution points.