'In Gaza, Israel’s intention is to prevent civilian lives from being saved’

The day after the start of Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip, Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British-Palestinian surgeon, went to the enclave to help the Palestinian population. For 43 days, Sittah, a surgeon who specializes in craniofacial surgery, operations on a person’s face and skull, and qualified from the University of Glasgow, operated on thousands of wounded in the al-Shifa and al-Ahli hospitals, which ran out of resources after being bombarded. Since his return to Europe, Sittah has been speaking out, recounting what he witnessed and denouncing the censorship to which he was subjected. On April 12, he was denied entry to Germany, and, in early May, to France, where he was supposed to speak before the French Senate on the medical crisis in Gaza. While in Beirut to receive an honorary doctorate of human letters from the...