What I want to say about Gaza is...Médecins Sans Frontières Dr. Hong Shangkai shared his medical experience in Gaza. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going on for 76 years since the 1948 war. However, the conflict has not disappeared due to the extension of time. On the contrary, it has Large-scale bilateral conflicts broke out again in October last year. The conflict has killed nearly 36,000 Palestinians so far, including more than 15,000 children, and 1.7 million Palestinians have been forced to flee due to the war; 1,139 Israelis have also died. Even though the world has paid a lot of attention to this conflict, most of our country‵s information sources on this incident are foreign translation reports, and there are very few first-hand information shared by local people who witnessed and observed it. In order to give students a better opportunity to have a deeper understanding of the Palestinian issue, the Department of Arabic Literature and the Master‵s Degree Program of Middle East and Central Asia invited Dr. Hong Shangkai from the Department of Emergency Medicine of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital to share his participation in Without Borders His service as a doctor and what he saw in Gaza. Dr. Hong Shangkai participated in the local medical assistance operation of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) in Gaza in July 2023, and personally went to the Gaza region to launch his first MSF mission. Dr. Hong started his speech by introducing the background of the establishment of Doctors Without Borders. The organization was established in 1971 by 13 doctors and journalists and has been an international non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to humanitarian relief for a long time. The organization has been traveling to war zones and countries with poor sanitation conditions for many years to assist countries and regions affected by war, epidemics and natural disasters through emergency medical assistance or the provision of water, livelihood supplies and medical necessities. In the Gaza region, Doctors Without Borders appeared as early as 1989, providing medical and mental health assistance and support to the people in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Corridor. Unlike other humanitarian groups, in addition to providing medical assistance, this organization also shoulders the mission of witnessing and speaking out. In addition to providing medical assistance, it also conducts neutral reports on what is happening in the assistance areas, trying to let the world understand what is happening in the conflict areas. Real situation. Dr. Hong uses his own experience to assist local doctors who have recently graduated from the Department of Medicine to learn the emergency treatment procedures and methods for sepsis, acute coronary heart disease, cardiac arrest, etc., and introduce the injury diagnosis system to local hospitals, thereby optimizing the local emergency department. In his speech, Dr. Hong talked about his own experience in medical consultation in the local area. In addition to letting the audience understand the emergencies, problems and dangerous situations that front-line medical personnel may encounter, he also made the audience who participated in the lecture understand We learned about the Gaza Strip beyond the lens of the media, and reminded everyone that there are still countless doctors, medical staff, and volunteers on the front lines saving lives. In Dr. Hong‵s speech, in addition to professional issues of medical assistance, he also shared his observations of living there for nearly four months. Through his speech, the audience realized the suffering of more than two million Gazans living under the so-called largest open prison in the world. They may not be able to leave a land the size of Taipei City for the rest of their lives. Much more is the disturbing Israeli drone surveillance of local people that can be heard almost all the time. Different from the cold words read in books or reports, Dr. Hong‵s wonderful speech seemed to bring the audience into the local area, allowing the students to directly explore the humanitarian issues occurring in Gaza, and allowing the audience to reflect more on the final consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The experience of a group of vulnerable and traumatized people is no longer just a rising number of casualties, but a tragedy in real flesh and blood. After Dr. Hong’s wonderful speech, several students also asked questions about their experiences in Gaza. After the entire lecture, other students who were still interested asked Dr. Hong questions about Palestine. This speech not only enhanced the audience‵s understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but also enabled us, who live in a comfortable and peaceful land, to have a deeper understanding of humanitarian issues thousands of miles away. It also made the audience understand that although we in Taiwan Although we are thousands of miles away from conflict zones, we still have the opportunity to contribute to international humanitarian issues in our own way.
