The Canadian doctor from Gaza urges to work outside the Palestinian recognition

Dr. Derdari Nonan, a bone surgeon from Saskashwan, who recently returned from the mission in Gaza, urges Canada to take stronger action.

Nonan said: “We have seen that the Canadian government proposes to recognize the state of Palestine, but this is not a practical step,” Nonan said.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney confirms Canada’s intention to recognize the state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly later this month, and Nonan said her message to Ottawa is clear: recognition alone will not save lives.

It urges a meaningful resumption to flow aid to Gaza and Canada to carry out the ban of bilateral weapons.

Canada has announced the prohibition of weapons, but a parliamentary report has been marked with gaps; Nonan now calls for the closure of these gaps.

Nonan said: “It is completely horrific, and every time I went, I thought we got to the bottom of the rocks … I didn’t think things would get worse. It was, it worsened … for many of the lives that were lost, for many people who were at the time of justice,” Nonan said.

The doctors without the borders of Canada, Sana Bég, calls the situation “unambiguously to genocide,” which confirms Israel’s destruction of the infrastructure of water and the siege of civil suffering.

Nonan took a picture of the desalination facility in southern Gaza, whose functions were affected by fuel deficiency. She said she had seen children begging for water in hospital corridors.

Nonan said: “While children begged for water, I think it should be clear that there is a shortage of water at the highest size,” Nonan said.

Bég warns that one hospital in Gaza is now fully working; She said only 18 out of 36 still showcase partial operations. She said that Canada needed to act under international humanitarian obligations.

“The genocide in Gaza, stopped ethnic cleansing and forced displacement. We call for an immediate and continuous ceasefire.

Israel strongly opposes recognition of the Palestinian state from countries like Canada, saying it may undermine peace efforts and escalating tensions. According to Israeli officials, Israeli officials are considering including parts of the West Bank in response to the growing international recognition movements.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says that its military operations are targeting the militants in Hamas, not civilians and seeking to protect the Israelis from continuous missile attacks. The IDF confirms that the warnings were issued before the strikes and efforts made to reduce civil harm.

Nonan has worked in Gaza since 2019, with three missions since Hamas attack on October 7 and Israel’s response.

During her last mission in Gaza in July 2025, Nonan describes the treatment of many of her patients at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis with minimal supplies, or a few drugs, limited clean water and frequent energy interruption.

Nonan said: “There were days when we had no enough fuel to operate the generators in the hospital to run air conditioning. So surgeons were dripping sweat into the wounds of patients during their work,” Nonan said.

Nonan said that she had seen patients treated with tents and on the mats outside hospital buildings, operating rooms that work on bottled water and surgical teams operating in the heat, power outages, and continuous air strikes.

Nonan said: “Patients were accepted in tents outside the hospital … We used to use bottled water to pour on our hands and we wash them before surgeries,” Nonan said.

The painful injuries were from the effects of the missiles and their fragments, to burns and wound crushing, widespread, and often required amputation, as Nonan was listed.

She said: “The majority of the injuries that we see were from explosive injuries. So these are the missiles that are largely jumped at people at home with their families in their tents.”

Nonan said that fiery wounds were another repeated injury, including among civilians who had been attacked while waiting for help. She said that children were at least a third of her patients, as they numbered young people.

Nonan said: “It is the biggest injury that I saw in my career … I was five cases I saw in one year in one day, then the next day it will be the same.”

Nonan brings her testimony to a public event in Vancouver on Monday, September 8, alongside author Naomi Klein, which shows the eyes of both the crisis area and Canada watching what politicians do after that.

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On July 20, 2025, Nonan said, “She witnessed a medical staff protesting the conditions of starvation, and called on the world to behave. Now, weeks, with official reports on famine, they are now stressing international work.

“When I was walking between hospital buildings at Nasser Hospital, hospital staff organized a protest. It was coordinated with other health facilities in Gaza … with small signs that say, ending the famine and stopped hunger and feeding the children of Gaza. They were hoping that this would be an invitation to the world,” she said.

A photo of this protest was taken and later recognized a journalist in her image in the name of Muhammad Naama, who was later killed in the double Israeli army strike at Nasser Hospital on August 25. Nonan said that her colleague later confirmed that he was safe in her image.

The raid on August 25 first hit the hospital’s upper floor, then there was a second blow after about 15 minutes, as the paramedics, journalists and rescuers fled to help the first victims. The attack was condemned, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists, at the international level as a serious violation of international humanitarian law.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the incident as a “tragic accident.” He stressed that Israel appreciates the work of journalists, medical and civilian employees and the aforementioned military authorities was conducting a comprehensive investigation.

Nonan expressed her great concern about her colleague, Dr. Ahmed Mhahanna, director of the Al -Wadae Hospital in northern Gaza, which was held by the Israeli forces, and according to what was reported without official charges, in December 2023, when the Israeli forces stormed the hospital and removed many employees. Most of them were released, but Dr. Mahna was not.

Nonan said: “One of my colleagues is …

the Recommendation reports on annoying allegations Dr. Mahna has endured harsh treatment, including the interrogation of abstraction from humanity and physical and psychological abuse in detention.

According to human rights institutions Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, these reports are frequenting broader accounts of healthcare professionals in Gaza who describe similar abuse – including beating, humiliation, and hunger – during the era of illegal fighters law in Israel, which allows the unspecified retention without accusation or experimental.

The Israeli authorities confirm that their detention policy includes reviewing detainees and issuing “those who do not participate in terrorist activity” as soon as it is cleared.