American emergency doctor, Dr. Mimi Syed on her work in Gaza under ongoing Israeli genocide

"I had 18 documented cases of children that came in with gunshots to the head, neck, abdomen, chest"

Dr. Mimi Syed is an American emergency doctor who has twice worked in Gaza during the ongoing Israeli genocide of Gaza: she spent four weeks each in the Gaza Strip in August and in December 2024.

She spoke to me about her child patients, many of whom were shot in the head or chest by the Israeli army; about Israel's preventing doctors from bringing aid or vital medical equipment with them into Gaza, hindering doctors’ ability to save Palestinian lives; about the (preventable) malnutrition and starvation she saw amongst Palestinian civilians, as well as the preventable water and sanitation-related diseases contributing to “indirect deaths” in Gaza.

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[over 80% of my patients were children ]
https://x.com/Memers1st/status/1939417407296270396

[Mira whom I treated when I was in Gaza who had a bullet lodged in her head. When I showed the CT image to the world, I was accused of fabricating it.
https://x.com/Memers1st/status/1940278942604398678 ]

[Against all odds, she is ok but is now being starved due to the blockade. Her story was featured on Al Jazeera Fault Lines “kids under fire”. I recommend any tax paying American watch this film.]
~5 min, Mira shown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-0zrQZWwDE
https://x.com/Memers1st/status/1940443774850891902

Ala’a Wafi is a 9-year-old girl I treated during my last trip to Gaza. Her skull was blown off by shrapnel. Against all odds, she survived, but there are thousands like her who didn’t. This is not self-defense. This is who we treated in Gaza: children.
https://x.com/Memers1st/status/1940664281798005142

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/humanitarian-aid-deathtraps-the-israeli-american-horrifying-new-face-of-israels-gaza-genocide/

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/its-a-ceasefirejust-not-on-the-beach-not-in-your-home/

Fishers & farmers gunned down by Israeli army
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/

[After the Israeli occupation destroyed his boat, fisherman Mohammed Habib invents a fishing boat from pieces of cork extracted from damaged refrigerator doors, to sail and fish to secure a living.]
https://x.com/ferozwala/status/1894662219121746298

Israeli long-created sanitation crisis
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/attack-on-water-brings-sanitation-crisis/