Gaza's Dr. Basem Naim recalls the horrors of Cast Lead. Part 1.

This episode of our podcast is the third in a special mini-series we’re releasing as part of our “Cast Lead Plus Ten” project, which started last December 27 and is running for 22 days. The project marks the anniversary of the “Operation Cast Lead” assault that Israel waged against Gaza during these same 22 days, ten years ago.  In this episode you’ll hear the first half of a conversation I had about Cast Lead recently, with Dr. Basem Naim. At the time of Cast Lead, Dr. Naim was the Minister of Health in the Palestinian government in Gaza.  Currently, he heads the Gaza-based Center for International Relations. In this episode, Dr. Naim re-lives some of the most painful moments he experienced during Operation Cast Lead —both as the Minister of Health and in his personal life -- from the first moments of the massive air assault on Gaza City that Israel launched in the late morning of December 27, 2008, when Dr. Naim was in Gaza largest medical facility, Shifa Hospital… until when the ceasefire was reached 21 days later. He also talks about the very  painful legacies that Cast Lead left in Gaza and the failure of all efforts to hold Israel accountable.(The automatically generated transcript that follows has not yet been cleaned up and should not be disseminated elsewhere until it has been.)Support the show