The Thinking Muslim The Gaza Doctor TRUMP Needs To Hear | Dr. Bilal Piracha
Sep 19, 2025
Dr. Bilal Piracha, an emergency medicine physician and faculty member at the University of Texas, shares firsthand accounts from his harrowing trips to Gaza. He discusses the devastating humanitarian crisis, highlighting weaponized hunger and dire malnutrition among civilians. Dr. Piracha recounts haunting clinical experiences and emphasizes the urgent need for grassroots mobilization within U.S. Muslim communities. He advocates for building alliances across diverse groups while urging actionable responses to the escalating situation in Gaza.
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Worsening Access And Confiscated Supplies
- Dr. Bilal Piracha describes three Gaza trips with escalating difficulty entering via Rafah, Jordan, and heavy Israeli checkpoints.
- He reports increasing destruction, tighter inspections, and confiscation of supplies like baby formula on later visits.
Witnessing Starvation And Its Trauma
- He witnessed clear starvation and malnutrition including patients dying and healthcare workers losing hope when food deliveries stopped.
- He recounts a nurse saying “Give us food and then kill us,” and a father crushed in a stampede for aid.
Hunger Used As A Weapon
- Dr. Piracha frames hunger as a deliberate tactic to break resilience and hope among Palestinians.
- He calls the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and aid placement part of a weaponization of hunger strategy.