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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>An interview (Laura Flanders of FAIR and GritTV with Dr. Mads Gilbert) well worth watching at the following link</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/04/28-0">http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/04/28-0</a></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#31658e" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #31658e"><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60049-0/fulltext">Dr. Mads Gilbert</a></font><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#444444" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #444444"> has worked and practiced medicine in Gaza for more than thirty years. One of the few western observers on the ground during Israel’s January bombardment, Gilbert's testimony during the offensive was a critical source of information. </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #444444; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#444444" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #444444">On January 3, after an Israeli strike on a Gaza vegetable market, Gilbert sent a text message to his Norwegian and International contacts:</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#444444" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #444444">“From doctor Mads Gilbert in Gaza: Thanks for your support,” it read. “They bombed the central vegetable market in Gaza city two hours ago. 80 injured, 20 killed. All came here to Shifa. Hades! We wade in death, blood and amputees. Many children. Pregnant woman. I have never experienced anything this horrible. Now we hear tanks. Tell it, pass it on, shout it. Anything. DO SOMETHING! DO MORE! We're living in the history books now, all of us!”</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #444444; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#444444" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #444444">We spoke with Gilbert recently as he embarked on a speaking tour in the United States.</font></p></div></body></html>