Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, head of pediatrics at the Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Yunis, has been interviewed by a number of major media outlets like the Washington Post and The New York Times who relied on his words to describe the situation in Gaza accurately.
After all, he's a doctor, and wouldn't lie, right?
Mondoweiss decided to write about the non-existent polio epidemic that the Gaza health ministry declared in Gaza. They found Dr, Farra was happy to speak to them about how Gaza is teetering on the edge of complete polio devastation.
“The solutions lie in personal hygiene and the use of soap, alcohol, and sterilizers,” al-Farra said. “But the Israeli occupation prevents the entry of these materials, and the fuel that is needed to operate the sewage treatment facilities.”
Israel doesn't allow Gazans to have soap and alcohol and othe rbasic medical hygiene equipment? How cruel of them!
But when you check the UNRWA page of imports to Gaza, you find trucks filled with first aid kits, hygiene kits, medical supplies, soap, liquid detergent, wet wipes and other similar cleansing and disinfectant materials.
Are there enough of them? I have no way of knowing. But as a top doctor at a hospital, al-Farra absolutely knows that these items are not being prevented to enter Gaza, and his statement that Israel blocks their entry into Gaza is shown to be a lie by UNRWA's own records.
We've established that the head of the Nasser Hospital pediatrics department is a liar. So what else has he lied to the media about?
