I have worked in medical humanitarian aid in Sierra Leone, Lebanon, South Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Libya and Jordan throughout the last decade.
The Israeli state has systematically demonstrated a complete disregard for the imperfect system that has long enabled me to deliver medical care to both civilians and combatants in conflict – that of international humanitarian law, AKA the rules of war.
Most days bodies would be brought to our trauma stabilisation point for transfer to the Palestinian civil defence for burial to be facilitated.
A week after leaving, I was curled up in my bed at home in southern Tasmania, transposing the sounds of drones to my tranquil environment in my mind.
The most inhumane of conflicts continue in no small part because large swathes of populations who hold power and influence feel too distant to act.
I hear the lone penguin that lives on the track to the beach close to me, calling out in the most contrasting sound to the drones anyone can perhaps imagine.
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