Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian physician, says he gets calls from people in Gaza constantly, "patients who have kidney problems, in need for kidney dialysis, who could die in two, three days because they cannot get it, patients with cancer who lost treatment, and other sick people who are in very deep situation."
Barghouti, who is also an activist and politician who serves as general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, also argues that a ground operation in Gaza would constitute a campaign of ethnic cleansing, and condemns Israeli occupation and settlement under far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as having destroyed any “prospective for a two-state solution.”
Barghouti accuses Israel having "turned back to using what was prohibited, which is white phosphorus," saying "it is a prohibited kind of weapon, but [Israel] uses it openly and frankly."
Barghouti also discusses President Biden’s abnegation of responsibility toward Palestinian Americans, Egypt’s role in the conflict and the relationship within Palestine between the “totally marginalized” Palestinian Authority and groups like Hamas.