Name: Nasser Hospital to Biden Walkout | Gaza Diaries
Uploaded: 2024-04-17T21:01:09.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: Dr. Omar Suleiman sits down with Dr. Thaer Ahmad, the doctor who made headlines for walking out of a meeting with President Joe Biden, to discuss his experience working at Nasser Hospital during a recent trip to Gaza.

<p>Dr. Omar Suleiman sits down with Dr. Thaer Ahmad, the doctor who made headlines for walking out of a meeting with President Joe Biden, to discuss his experience working at Nasser Hospital during a recent trip to Gaza.</p>

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 Dr. Thaer Ahmed, Alhamdulillah, we have been obviously following your work from Gaza,  you are Palestinian-American, from Chicago, you are a doctor, Alhamdulillah, you've been to Gaza multiple times with MedGlobal.  First of all, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward you for answering the call to go there multiple times and to work there.  May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward you for your efforts.  May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept all of the healing that you brought, and all of the awareness that you brought as well,  and keep you under his protection.  Allahumma ameen.  Walk me through, you get a phone call that gives you an opportunity to go to Gaza in the middle of a genocide.  How do you kind of process that on an emotional, spiritual, mental level?  I think from our perspective, all of us here, we're thinking about what can we do.  And we've been thinking about that since October.  And so we were looking into how can we get in.  Subhanallah, there was an actual planned trip to Gaza, October 22nd.  But of course, after October 7th, it just got totally scrapped.  Nobody was getting into Gaza.  None of these organizations that usually bring in delegations or teams for anything were getting in.  And we heard at the end of December, at the end of December, that there might be a chance that we could get in.  And I remember texting Dr. Zeher, who's the founder of MedGlobal, and I said,  if there's any chance, I'm going to be on that trip.  And he said, of course, he understood just how emotional everybody was with respect to this,  and that we needed to feel like we were doing something.  So it wasn't really a tough decision.  I think most of us would seize the opportunity to kind of show up,  and subhanallah, just have the opportunity to be able to go into Gaza as a physician.  And that's what they needed at that time.  But of course, as things move along and there's more requirements,  I'm sure everybody will feel the same way.  Everybody's going to want to step up.  And I think that's, I always say this, but I think Gaza changed all of us.  Gaza let us realize the ni'mah and the barakah that we're living in.  I mean, just being able to wake up in your bed every single day,  you think about the fact that people who look like us, who talk like us,  that they're not able to do so.  I'm able to jump in the shower.  I think we think about that a lot more now, given what's happened in Gaza.  And for me, that's really all that factored into the decision.  I felt that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us this opportunity to be comfortable here,  and that our voice can maybe be amplified.  And what better way than to go there, bear witness to what's going on,  and then if I'm lucky enough to be able to get out,  to share that with everybody that wants to know what's happening on the ground.  When was the last time you've been to Gaza, prior to this one?  It was in March, prior to October.  I was at Shifa Hospital.  I know the Shabab there very well.  Great people that I talk to regularly.  They're so thirsty for knowledge.  They're always asking, what else can they learn?  What else can they use?  Very, very good relationship with them.  Ever since I had met them, probably two years ago,  I made it a habit to try to consistently go back.  When October hit, I'm sure a lot of those images,  the things you'd already seen in Gaza, were fresh.  You were thinking about this.  Can you talk to us about that?  When the bombing started in October.  It's really tough because Gaza is beautiful.  It's amazing.  The coastline is incredible.  The scenery there is amazing.  It's a tough place to live.  Make no mistake about it.  There's a siege that's been there for 17 years,  but the people, the life, they call it the haraka,  the movement that's there, it's enchanting.  It's mesmerizing.  People are incredible to be around.  When you just watch that place get leveled  the way that it was since October,  every single day a new block is being taken out,  a new block is being destroyed,  you start to think about these beautiful areas that are gone,  the memories of the people that are there.  One of the people that I had met,  she had recently told me she's a country representative  for MedGlobal, so she's been on the ground.  She said, all that we have left is our misery.  Even our memories, they've tried to destroy that  by taking away the structures that were there.  Just being on the beach, being able to look  at the Mediterranean coast, now that area  has become a death zone.  You can't even walk up and down the beach anymore.  It's really tough because it takes so long  to build up the infrastructure in Gaza  because of the siege, because of the blockade,  and to just watch it be reduced to rubble  within seconds by 2,000 bombs, it's a struggle.  You feel helpless in that moment.  You're trying to think, what are we supposed to do now?  How do we pick it back up?  Instead of being able to focus on that,  it's another devasta…

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