Health Sovereignty in Palestine: A Conversation Between Mary Turfah and Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah by Protean Magazine

Khalas (خلاص —“enough”), the West is no longer flirting with the liberal welfare state. It is now practicing pure violence—and all of its institutions are going along with it, including the humanitarian sector. Since World War II, the humanitarian sector was necessary for the West to portray its cultural superiority. Since the genocide, it is clear that we are down to the bare-knuckle fight of racial superiority. The humanitarian sector—through organizations like the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), like Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)—is indicating that it’s prepared to also make that turn. The image is that of a Red Cross bulldozer in a Palestinian neighborhood, surrounded by flattened buildings holding Palestinian bodies that have not been retrieved, digging for a single Israeli body. It’s already signaling that it is prepared to engage with Trump’s reservation model. And effectively, Trump’s plan for Gaza is a Native American reservation. With the casinos, with the local managers working for a white man that’s never seen the place—all of it.

I’m in contact with the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Gaza, and they are being inundated with multi-million dollar offers from international humanitarian organizations to buy the remaining hospitals in Gaza.