Nederlandse versie

In conversation with Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu-Sittah 

Witness statement of a doctor in Gaza

 

Watch the entire event in the video below:

Update 16 May: Continued attempts to silence and cancel doctor Ghassan Abu-Sittah have made it impossible from him to be with us tomorrow. If the situation allows, he will join us over a video link.

The travel ban was only one of the ways in which he is being obstructed and prevented to give his indispensable statement on what he witnessed in Gaza. We are saddened and angry about the situation, but remain committed in our resolve to give a platform to Palestinians and their allies in their fight for justice.

We will not be silenced. Thank you for standing with us.

 

The Rights Forum board member Berber van der Woude will host a talk with the Palestinian-British doctor Ghassan Abu-Sittah about his time as a surgeon in Gaza and the genocidal war that Israel is waging there. He witnessed the most horrific injuries to children and treated people with terrible burns. Abu-Sittah says Gaza is being deliberately made unliveable by also destroying the health system.

After the conversation with Abu-Sittah, there will be a panel where we discuss the situation in Gaza and the attack on the freedom of expression in Europe. The Rights Forum also offers a platform to speakers whose freedom of expression and Palestinian solidarity in Europe are under pressure.

Friday May 17, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM 
Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam 
Admission: € 12.50 | Language: English 

Moderator: Berber van der Woude

Mr. Dr. Marloes van Noorloos is associate professor of criminal law at Leiden University specialised in research, teaching and human rights advocacy. She has specific academic interest in the criminalisation of expressions and human rights.

Sara Galli is an anesthesiologist in The Hague and part of Doctors for Gaza, a Dutch collective committed to an end to violence, protection of healthcare, access to emergency aid and reconstruction of the destroyed healthcare system in Gaza.

Wieland Hoban is a composer and academic translator. He is chairman of the German organization ‘Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East’ and was co-organizer of the recently banned ‘Palaëstina Kongress’ in Berlin. As a result, his organization saw their bank closed.

Tobias den Haan works for the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) , the only independent organisation defending and empowering the Palestine solidarity movement in Europe through legal means. He will provide us with facts and figures on the suppression of Palestine solidarity activists in Europe.

Intermezzo:

Sobhi Khatib – public speaker, storyteller and educator

Ghassan Abu-Sittah 

This well-known British-Palestinian surgeon has worked in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. On October 9, he went to Gaza, where he worked for 43 days straight in Al-Shifa and Al-Ahli hospitals. Since then he has been showing the world what is happening in Gaza. Abu-Sittah was recently elected Rector of the University of Glasgow. 

Berber van der Woude 

Berber van der Woude is a political scientist. She worked at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a diplomat and policy advisor in the field of peace building and security and justice sector development in (post-)conflict areas such as Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia and – her last diplomatic posting – Ramallah. 

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