Dr. Mohammed Mustafa: Australian Doctor Faces Heartbreaking Decisions While Serving in Gaza
May 1, 2025
This broke my heart…
I don’t understand the cruelty of such a world. A world where we allow the killing of children live on air. A world where an open genocide takes places and we stand by, observing.
This is Mohammed Mustafa, an Australian doctor that was serving in Gaza, explaining how he had to choose between which children to provide sedatives to whilst performing procedures.
No one should need to make this decision.
Shame on the world.
Shame.
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English Script:
Dr. Mohammed Moustafa: I had with me because I’m prepared for these mass casualty events. I had some ketamine, two syringes of ketamine, and that was my sedation. And I had to pick and choose who to give the sedation to and who not to give the sedation to. And ketamine can also be used as a painkiller as well as a sedative. And…
Interviewer: How do you even make a decision? Well, what’s the thought process?
Dr. Mohammed Moustafa: The thought process, I just was very pragmatic, right? The thought process was if I knew this child was going to die, even if they’re in agony and in pain, I wouldn’t give them ketamine. And the reason was because the children that could live, I didn’t want to traumatize them for the rest of their lives with what I was about to do to them. So I would sedate them and I would leave those other children to die. That’s the decisions that you have to make when you’re in Gaza, every day.
