Doctors Join Call for Justice in Gaza
Israel has admitted to responsibility for dropping a bomb on an ambulance outside Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, claiming that Hamas forces were using it for transport. Gaza’s health infrastructure is on the point of collapse as health care workers and facilities are stretched beyond capacity amidst an unfolding bloodbath, treating casualties with dwindling supplies and often no power.
In a new op-ed for YES!, physicians Ghassan Abu-Sitta and Rupa Marya, wrote “This is an engineered catastrophe designed to maximize human suffering,” and that, “[t]he work of rehumanization is the medicine we urgently need.” Marya, who is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and co-author with Raj Patel of the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice spoke with YES! Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about her op-ed.
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Sonali Kolhatkar
joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute’s Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (2023) and Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (2005). Her forthcoming book is called Talking About Abolition (Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women’s Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master’s in Astronomy from the University of Hawai’i, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on “My Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host” in her 2014 TEDx talk of the same name.
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