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Orthopedic surgeon

Ang Swee Chai (Chinese: 洪瑞钗) is an orthopedic surgeon and author. She is a co-founder of the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians.

Life

Ang was born in Penang, Malaysia but raised in Singapore. She attended Kwong Avenue Primary School, Raffles Girls' School, and the National University of Singapore where she studied medicine. She then received a master's degree in Occupational Medicine in 1976.

In 1977, Ang married Singaporean human rights lawyer Francis Khoo. Two weeks after the marriage, she was briefly detained during a government crackdown on dissidents as the authority attempted to arrest her husband. She fled to London to be with her husband and they were granted asylum there. She trained to be an orthopaedic surgeon in Britain, where she obtained her FRCS (Eng) and completed her training in Newcastle. She later became the first female consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London.

In August 1982, Ang responded to an appeal for medical personnel from Christian Aid to treat war casualties in Lebanon and went to work at the Gaza Hospital near the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. The following month, she became witness to the Sabra-Shatila massacre during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. She and two other hospital staff testified to Israeli Kahan Commission on the Sabra and Shatila massacre in September 1982. Ang would also testify to the massacre in front of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission in 2013, during a hearing that eventually found the State of Israel guilty of genocide.

With her husband, Francis Khoo, and some friends, Ang helped to form the British charity, Medical Aid for Palestinians, following the 1982 massacres.

Awards and honours

In 1987, President Yasser Arafat awarded Ang the Star of Palestine, the highest award for service to th

Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon based in London, has spent much of his professional life in the operating rooms of conflict zones. In his youth he hesitated to pursue a career in medicine. His father was a doctor, and he, like many children of physicians, thought he wanted something else, maybe a career in the social sciences. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 first exposed Abu-Sittah to medicine’s possibilities and how these might extend past the individual doctor-patient interaction. He decided to become a surgeon, and his work in the intervening years led him to Mosul, to Yemen, to Damascus, and to Lebanon, where he founded the American University of Beirut’s first-of-its-kind Conflict Medicine Program. And again and again, his work led him, as much as he led his work, back to Gaza.

A documentary from 2003 titled “About Gaza” opens with footage of Abu-Sittah crossing a busy intersection, wearing a suit and with a leather briefcase in hand; seconds later, the frame cuts to piles of rubble amid cratered buildings. Abu-Sittah explains via voice-over that he’s taken a six-month leave to travel to Gaza because “as a diaspora Palestinian, I felt that this is where I belonged. Even though I had never lived in Gaza, it’s a place that I’ve always regarded as home. It’s where the two currents in my life meet: my profession and my sense of identity.”

Abu-Sittah was born in Kuwait to a Palestinian family that, along with hundreds of thousands of others living in southern Palestine, forcibly fled their homes in 1948 and sought refuge in Gaza. In sharing his family history in interviews, I’ve noticed more than once Abu-Sittah correct himself: he says, “my family were refugees” then, “made refugees,” as if to insist on the significance of linguistic precision, conscious of the aggression we normalize in everyday speech. His ancestral village, Ma’in Abu-Sitta, fou

British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon

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Ghassan Soleiman Abu-Sittah (Arabic: غسان أبو ستة; born 1969 in Kuwait) is a British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon who specialises in craniofacial surgery, aesthetic surgery, cleft lip and palate surgery, and trauma-related injuries. Since April 2024 he has served as Rector of the University of Glasgow.

He is known for providing medical assistance as a surgeon in twelve crisis and conflict areas, like in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, where he supported local clinics and doctors, particularly in the Gaza Strip. He first visited the Gaza Strip as a medical student during the First Intifada in 1989, and was a member of Medical Aid for Palestinians during the Second Intifada starting 2000. He also traveled to the Gaza Strip during the 2008-2009 war, the 2012 operation, the 2014 war, and the 2018 Great March of Return.

Abu-Sittah returned to the Gaza Strip after the start of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, where he provided medical assistance with Doctors Without Borders out of the Al-Shifa Hospital. He has spoken to news outlets participated in press conferences discussing his experiences. In January 2024, he traveled to The Hague to meet with International Criminal Court (ICC) investigators.

Early life and education

Abu-Sittah was born in 1969 in Kuwait to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. He is the nephew of Salman Abu Sitta. Abu-Sittah's father's family originated in Ma'in Abu Sitta, south east of Gaza, where they had their house and Abu-Sittah's grandfather had built a school. During the Nakba, Zionist armed forces Haganah attacked the village, destroying indiscriminately and shooting anyone who got in their way. His father's family were expelled from their land and became refugees in the Gaza Strip. They