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FULL EPISODE ~ Building Bridges radio | Bearing Witness to Genocide: Doctors and Workers Speak for Palestine

Originally broadcast on August 25, 2025

Mimi Rosenberg

Aug 25, 2025

Hours after Israel’s double-tap strike on the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis — which killed at least twenty Palestinians, including five journalists and two medical students — Building Bridges gathers those who refuse to be silenced. The program opens with Remi Kanazi’s “Poem for Gaza” and brings together Dr. Karama Hawash, a pediatric neurologist, and Dr. Nidal Jabour, an internist from Yatta in the West Bank — co-founders of Doctors Against Genocide — alongside veteran labor organizer Manadel Herzala, a founding member of Labor for Palestine and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network.

The doctors name what they are witnessing as “medicide” — the systematic annihilation of a people through the destruction of their health-care infrastructure — and call on the medical community to reclaim its highest duty: to protect life and refuse complicity. Herzala speaks to the deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalists, the workers whose cameras and bodies are “the occupation’s most valuable target bank,” and the failure of the Western press that disowned its own. Together, doctors and workers, they insist that journalists, medics, and patients are all workers — and that solidarity means connecting every sector, from teachers to physicians, in a global uprising for Palestinian life.

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Voices from the Frontlines

“They call this what it is: medicide — the systematic annihilation of a people through the destruction of their health-care infrastructure.” — Mimi Rosenberg

“It should be the easiest thing… Stop the killing. Let the food sitting a few miles away in.” — Dr. Karama Hawash

“We go to school to protect life — to be a safeguard for the weak, the poor, the vulnerable.” — Dr. Nidal Jabour

“Targeting journalists is not collateral damage. They are the heart of the occupation’s most valuable target bank.” — Manadel Herzala

What You’ll Hear

• “Poem for Gaza” — Remi Kanazi opens the program.
• The Nasser Hospital strike — the killing of five journalists and two medical students, told by colleagues who knew them.
• “Medicide” — Doctors Against Genocide on the deliberate destruction of Gaza’s health-care system.
• Medicine’s moral calling — Dr. Hawash and Dr. Jabour on reclaiming the duty to protect life and refuse complicity.
• “The good American people” — the other America, against the government’s bombs.
• The targeting of journalists — Manadel Herzala on why the press vest became a target, and the complicity of Western media.
• Journalists, medics, patients — all workers — and the assault on the Palestinian working class.
• Connecting the sectors — teachers, doctors, and unions in a global solidarity movement.

Take Action

• Support Doctors Against Genocide and the call to treat genocide as a medical emergency.
• Stand with Labor for Palestine and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network.
• Demand protection for journalists and an end to the targeting of health-care workers.
• Press for an open aid corridor and an end to U.S. arming of Israel.