Dr Mo Mustafa, a Palestinian-Australian ER doctor, spent months treating patients inside Gaza’s hospitals while journalists were barred from entering. At MWM’s 10th Anniversary Gala Dinner, he sits down with Doctor Matiu to explain why he started filming on his phone after an MSF colleague told him it broke the rules, and how doctors became some of the only outside witnesses to what was happening.
He recounts a mass casualty night when the hospital ran out of beds, meetings with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong over a mobile hospital still waiting to enter Gaza, and the story of a nine-year-old girl who walked three kilometres carrying her three-year-old brother after losing the rest of her family. He also discusses a new antisemitism definition adopted by Australia’s health regulator, and what it could mean for doctors who speak publicly about what they saw.
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00:00 – Wendy Harmer Intro
01:58 – Voices From Gaza
05:04 – Picking Up the Camera
09:34 – Price of Access
12:55 – Lessons From History
17:44 – Fight for a Hospital
18:21 – Starmer, Wong and Ireland
21:59 – Truth Speaks Back
23:11 – The Ceasefire Breaks
24:24 – Carrying Her Brother
27:44 – The Health Regulator’s Threat
28:24 – The Story of Moses
31:49 – Audience Questions
36:17 – A Call for Change
Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.
