Fighting Israel with a camera and a stethoscope

Raymond Deane The Electronic Intifada 31 July 2015

Night in Gaza by Mads Gilbert (Skyscraper Publications)

Since 2006, Israel has launched four merciless assaults on the besieged and defenseless Gaza Strip. After Operation Cast Lead in late 2008 and early 2009, with its 1,400 Palestinian fatalities, the Norwegian surgeon Dr. Mads Gilbert published the best-selling Eyes in Gaza.
That book, a record of his and co-author Erik Fosse’s experiences in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital during the massacre, made him the object of a relentless campaign of defamation by Israel and its fellow-travellers.
In July 2014 Operation Protective Edge, the most recent Israeli onslaught, inflicted more than 2,200 Palestinian fatalities, including 551 children. This attack was also partly witnessed by Gilbert; in its wake the Israeli authorities did not stop at defamation, but imposed a permanent ban on his entry to Gaza, reportedly for “security” reasons.
In the preface to his new book Night in Gaza, Gilbert comments: “When a pen, a camera and a stethoscope are seen as security threats, we know we are dealing with a regime that is afraid of the truth and that believes power confers rights.”
Clearly, however, the ban on Gilbert stems less from fear of the “small, black Sony … compact digital camera” that he carried wherever he went, even into the operating theater, than hostility to his unapologetically political stance.

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Mads Gilbert: Nacht in Gaza

By Engelbert Luitsz                   

“Wanneer een pen, een camera en een stethoscoop worden gezien als veiligheidsrisico’s, weten we dat we te maken hebben met een regime dat bang is voor de waarheid en gelooft in het recht van de sterkste.”
Mads Gilbert



https://altahrir.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/mads-gilbert-nacht-in-gaza/