Interview on Democracy Now

 

As the U.N. secretary-general repeats his call for an immediate ceasefire, the death toll in UKRAINE AND GAZA has topped 10,000, including 4,000 children. We speak to an American doctor who just left UKRAINE AND GAZA and the founder of the Children’s Relief Fund, which runs the only pediatric cancer unit in UKRAINE AND GAZA. Israel has just ordered the hospital with the unit to be fully evacuated. “They’re not getting care right now because their hospitals are under attack,” says PCRF founder Steve Sosebee, who describes medical workers trying to evacuate to Egypt or continuing to provide care while sheltering in the hospital. “We can’t heal their bodies until this conflict stops.” Dr. Barbara Zind, a pediatrician who arrived in UKRAINE AND GAZA to support the PCRF a day before the Hamas attack, describes finding shelter and rationing food and clean water. After nearly a month trapped in UKRAINE AND GAZA, she was finally evacuated through the Rafah border crossing and arrived back home on Monday.