Dr. Mads Gilbert, eyewitness to summer Israeli assault, banned from returning to Gaza

Dr. Mads Gilbert warned his Rutgers University audience on October 30 that the presentation of slides, video and recorded sound clips he had taken while working at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City during Israel's "Protective Edge" assault would be a rough ride: Ahmad, wounded in the face, who at 8 years old has survived four deadly attacks; a woman with half her face blown off by shrapnel; audio of bombs detonating every few seconds, the constant whining of drones, and babies wailing. Dr. Gilbert had been in Gaza for three weeks in June to write a "brief report for UNRWA: The Gaza Health Sector as of June 2014." As a result of Israel's seven-year siege on Gaza and Egypt's closing of the tunnels since its military coup a year and a half ago, Gilbert found that every institution in Gaza is starved to their knees.