Israel bans Mads Gilbert from Gaza for life | Middle East Eye
Rori Donaghy - Friday 14 November 2014
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Israel has “indefinitely” banned Norwegian doctor and activist Mads Gilbert, who has provided medical care for Palestinians in Gaza for 15 years, from entering the coastal enclave.
“I was rejected on 1 October when I was standing at Erez with a valid Israeli permit for multiple entries, an invitation from the Palestinian Ministry of Health and a recommendation from the director at my hospital in north Norway,” he told MEE on Friday.
Dr Gilbert worked at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital during the recent 51-day Israeli assault on the Strip and has been a vocal critic of the Israeli occupation in Palestine.
He said the decision to bar him from Gaza was “totally unacceptable”.
“I have never violated Israeli law, never been arrested and never lied,” Gilbert said. “I can understand it’s inconvenient to have the medical situation documented from the Palestinian side, which I have done repeatedly in scientific papers and books.”
“But it is completely unacceptable to restrict the movement of humanitarian personnel – much needed in Gaza now after the last bombardment.”
After he was refused entry to Gaza, Norwegian authorities took up his case with Israel, who confirmed the doctor is “indefinitely excluded from entering through Erez”. Israeli officials said only that he was barred for “security reasons”.
Dr. Gilbert is defiant in responding to the ban and resolved to make a return to Gaza in the near future.
“I will not be stopped from returning to Gaza to do medical solidarity work,” he said. “There are different attempts going on to conceal the reality on the ground for the good people of Gaza – this is one of them – and we must be persist in resisting attempts to shutdown Gaza from the world.”
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Lettre de Gaza d’un médecin norvégien
Mads Gilbert
▻http://info-palestine.net/spip.php?article14739
Gaza - dimanche 20 juillet 11h 06 -
Chers amis,
La nuit dernière a été extrême. L’invasion « terrestre » de Gaza a amené des dizaines de véhicules surchargés de toutes sortes de Palestiniens blessés, mutilés, déchiquetés, sanglants, tremblants, agonisant – de tous âges, tous des civils, tous innocents.
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M. Obama, avez-vous un cœur ?
Je vous invite, passez donc une nuit, juste une, avec nous à Shifa. Déguisé en nettoyeur peut-être.
J’en suis convaincu à 100 % : cela changerait l’Histoire.
Personne ayant un cœur ET du pouvoir ne peut sortir d’une nuit à Shifa sans être déterminé à mettre fin au massacre du peuple palestinien.
Mais les sans-cœurs et sans-pitié ont fait leurs calculs et planifié d’autres massacres « dahyia » contre Gaza.
Les fleuves de sang continueront à couler la nuit qui vient. Je peux entendre comment ils ont accordé leurs instruments de mort.
Je vous en prie. Faites ce que vous pouvez. Ceci tout CECI ne peut pas continuer.
* Mads Frederick Gilbert MD PhD est Professeur et Chef de clinique
Clinique de médecine d’Urgence
Hôpital Universitaire de Norvège du Nord (UNN)