Saleyha Ahsan tells Imran Garda that acts of inhumanity against medics, doctors, and humanitarian workers are happening daily and with complete impunity. She’s witnessed it all — in Palestine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Syria.
Ahsan is a former British soldier, humanitarian doctor and filmmaker who has served on the frontlines of some of the world’s most brutal conflicts: from the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s, to attacks on healthcare workers in Palestine, and the large-scale bombings of schools and hospitals in Syria.
On this episode of The InnerView, Ahsan shares why she no longer advises junior doctors to go to Gaza, the moment that changed her forever, and what she thinks must happen before anyone can truly feel safe.
00:00 Meet Saleyha Ahsan
01:55 Why Ahsan thinks the world has gone mad
03:02 “The level of impunity is mind-blowing”
03:54 Healthcare volunteers in Gaza
06:20 Attacks on Red Cross workers
07:59 Ahsan’s frontline experience in Bosnia
13:02 What was the first thing she did after returning to civilian life?
14:37 Interviewing Mustafa Barghouti and attacks on Palestinian medics
15:55 The bombing of a school in Aleppo, Syria
18:41 Türkiye’s aid for victims of Assad’s regime
20:08 What did she realize after returning to the UK?
20:49 On being accused of faking the Syrian school bombing
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