Life Support Screening and Q&A

This documentary captures the eye-witness testimonies of Western-based doctors who have worked alongside their Gazan colleagues since 2023 Life Support compiles detailed, eye-witness testimonies from renowned medical experts, doctors who work in some of our most prestigious medical institutions. You’d put your life in their hands, and with Life Support you will hear them detail what they witnessed over several placements in Gaza, chronicling Israel’s systematic, intentional targeting of Gaza’s healthcare system, facilities and medical personnel. Why are their testimonies important? Their powerful and revelatory testimonies fill a vital information vacuum created by Israel, which has intentionally barred international journalists, and human rights or forensic specialists, from entering Gaza. They corroborate often dismissed testimonies by Palestinian health workers. As a UN OCHA report states, international doctors are “vital witnesses to an unfolding genocide on the ground. In fact, they are probably one of the only demographic of workers who have had near-regular access to Gaza since the start of the present war”. It adds: “the hospital becomes a kind of node that registers multiple genocidal practices on the ground: revealing the ways in which policies like deliberate restriction of aid, famine, the disproportionate use of munitions, targeting of civilians—particularly children and women – forced evacuations and displacement, lack of clean water, sanitation, and fuel, among others things, all intersect and aggravate one another to systematically delete the Palestinian people.” Following the screening there will be a Q & A session with Professor Nick Maynard, one of the Doctors in the film and regular visitor to Kinsale, and Denise Gough, the narrator for the film. The Q & A will be moderated by Tadgh Hickey