Dr. Mustafa, who treated children in Gaza, recalled:
➤ "Sometimes you feel like a butcher...when you're putting in chest drains into children and you're not sedating them...A chest drain is stabbing somebody in the chest and getting all the way into where the lung tissue is."
Palestinian-British ER doctor Dr. Muhammad Mustafa, who has treated patients in Gaza since October 7, warns of a catastrophic health crisis: “A million children are being starved to death… a quarter of the population is in stage 5 famine, where four of every 10,000 children die each day.” At this stage, food alone isn’t enough – without doctors, medicine, and infrastructure, people die from refeeding syndrome and untreated wounds, he tells Breaking Points. He’s been pressing politicians from Ireland, Australia, and the UK to confront this reality and support urgent medical relief.