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War between Israel and Hamas: “This cowardice which is present in the West is responsible for what is happening”, according to Pascal André
Pascal André is an infectious diseases specialist and emergency doctor. He carried out a two-week mission in February to the European hospital in Khan Younes in the Gaza Strip. He is the guest of 19/20 info on Sunday April 7.
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Pascal André is an infectious diseases specialist and emergency doctor. He carried out a two-week mission in February to the European hospital in Khan Younes in the Gaza Strip. He is the guest of 19/20 info on Sunday April 7.
The Khan Younes hospital (Gaza) is designed to accommodate 300 people. Today, it accommodates up to 5,000. A situation that doctor Pascal André judges “infectious and urgent”. “We witnessed an abomination, constant terror, a population that had been locked in a trap for weeks.” According to him, the population try to survive by all means. “We only met humans, exactly like us, who were on a non-violent approach and who needed security and peace, exactly like on the other side of the wall,” relates Pascal André.
“A single narration for six months”
Above all, the doctor denounces “a single narration for six months, which has not been verified” in the media. “We have not seen a single soldier, we have not heard a single speech of violence or hatred”, he argues, after spending several weeks in the Gza strip. “We have been experiencing this for 75 years, it did not start on October 7,” doctors in the West Bank reportedly told Pascal André, demanding a ceasefire from the West.
According to the figures given by the doctor, 350 people died before the Hamas attacks, between January 1 and October 7. “This hypocrisy, this fear, this cowardice which is present in the West is responsible for what is happening there”he thunders on the set of 19/20 info.
He adds that he hears “the suffering of the Israeli people” following the “drama” from October 7. Pascal André finally reports that Hamas requested “an international commission of inquiry and independent journalists, which is absolutely refused by Israel.”