Ghassan Abu Sitta is founder of the Conflict Medicine&nbsp;Program at the American University of Beirut, and has been a war surgeon throughout Europe and the Middle East.

Ghassan Abu Sitta

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Palestinian children play on a ferris wheel near residential buildings that witnesses said were destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war in the summer of 2014, in Beit Lahiya town in the northern Gaza, July 27, 2015.

Gaza now has a toxic ‘biosphere of war’ that no one can escape

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