The Agonizing History of Medicine: The Consequences of Conflict in Palestine and the Resilience of Hakim El Masry

2023-10-27 23:00:00

The chronicle of the Jews is known to everyone. A people that has been rejected, subjugated, inconsiderate, humiliated or separated from the world of civilized people, the ghettos. Religion is not so alarming; The indicated entity that manifests itself as such is alarming: the occupations, the customs, the way of dressing, the synagogues or the rituals at their point. And from the rejection one of the most portentous atrocities in the history of humanity is confirmed: the Nazi extermination. Hence returning the lands conquered after the flight from Egypt with Moses to build their State. What underlines this evidence is the reliable repetition: a plebs among different people, many of whom proclaim themselves enemies. The responsibility of being Jews clashes again against the imperialist fundamentalism of the Arabs. This is confirmed: Israel that subjugates Palestine. Well, two positions can be seen there: the progressive one that found the Oslo agreements and the far-right one that retains and sanctions chaos. And that happens: a direction that would assume the two states in harmony and another that only manages the conflict. By both sides: Netanyahu against, Hamas against. The two extremes meet: Hamas radicals launch rockets at civilians, enter enemy territory, kill (1,400) and kidnap. The response was not long in coming, nor were the consequences. Hakim El Masry was born in Gaza, lived in Gaza and has all of his progeny settled in Gaza. But he grasped the consequences of the future and prepared to train as a doctor in order to be useful to his people. He moved to Granada, the city of the Alhambra. And in his splendid university he began to build his future with solvency. A familiar detail made him go back slowly to his place of origin. On the bright morning of October 7 of this year, the first bomb exploded, making all the buildings in the neighborhood rumble and piercing a huge hole in the ground. Hakim had confusing news about what was happening, but after that explosion he knew what was going to happen. So he didn’t run away, he couldn’t run away. He also didn’t clutch a North Korean-supplied assault rifle to his chest. Not that, because he was a peaceful and reasonable guy who knew a peaceful and reasonable part of the world. He set out to help in any way he could because everything around him was beginning to look devastated. And one of those projectiles hit his house. His mother was struck down by shrapnel. His brother Abdel also his. His father was writhing on the floor with a shattered foot. And he closed the fable of his fate when a wall fell on him while trying to get the survivors into his shelter. Thus he agonized the history of medicine.

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