“I cannot save the lives of these children if I do not convey to you the truth, what I saw” – Libération

The American doctor, of Jewish faith, spent three weeks at the European hospital in Gaza trying to treat victims of the bombings. He came back deeply shocked and struggles to try to alert public opinion, at the cost of broken friendships and an outpouring of hatred.

Sometimes tears come to him. But never at the evocation of the fear which was his, and which accompanies him since these three weeks of spring spent seeing pour into the corridors of the European hospital in Gaza, the whole specter of pain and the horror unleashed over the past year on the Palestinian enclave and its captives. No, when Dr. Mark Perlmutter finds himself still moving as he tells us his story, it’s not so much the terror he witnessed, but what he left behind. him, and his inability to change its course.

Already at the beginning of April, on site, he had started posting on the social network . Speeches to which he opposed his testimony and the harsh images of the litany of tortured children from his operating theater, brandishing each time, as accreditations, both his geolocation, his aura as vice-president of the boarding school