American Doctor asks viewers to accept sweeping accusations against Israel while omitting critical facts: the featured doctors’ longstanding anti-Israel activism, Hamas’s documented use of Gaza’s hospitals, U.S. intelligence findings, hostage testimony, independent reporting, and even Palestinian witnesses who exposed Hamas’s abuse of medical facilities.
Before accepting the film’s narrative, take a look at everything it chose to leave out.
AMERICAN DOCTOR – A TALE OF LIES
A documentary about Gaza’s hospitals asks audiences to accept a sweeping verdict while withholding facts that directly challenge its narrative. Before you accept the film’s conclusions, examine what the film chose to leave out.
THE SUFFERING WAS REAL. THE STORY IS MISINFORMED.
Gaza’s hospitals treated horrific casualties under difficult conditions. The war in Gaza was a brutal urban war launched by Hamas on October 7 on a battlefield the terror group created to maximize civilian casualties. While these doctors can describe wounds, shortages, and what they personally witnessed, the film whitewashes who these doctors were and their deep-seated biases.
THE FILM FOLLOWS THESE ACTIVIST DOCTORS AND CALLS IT EVIDENCE
No military experts.
No hostage testimony.
No serious examination of Hamas inside Gaza’s hospitals.
The project’s own materials call it a “political and medical thriller,” with no sit-down interviews or expert commentary, just manipulated pieces of footage. In other words, an edited tale of fiction. Its official synopsis follows the doctors from Gaza to the halls of Congress, creating an air of credibility where there is none.
WHO ARE THESE THREE DOCTORS?
THAER AHMAD WAS A PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST LONG BEFORE THE WAR
Ahmad’s political involvement did not begin after a hospital mission.
● He first traveled to Gaza in 2009.
● He returned repeatedly.
● He serves on the board of the Palestinian American Medical Association, an organization with a long history of anti-Israel activism.
● He publicly campaigned against U.S. support for Israel.
● He walked out of a White House meeting in an intentional act of activist protest.
The film presents his politics as the natural result of what he witnessed. His advocacy had deep roots long before October 7.
FEROZE SIDHWA’S ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVISM GOES BACK TWO DECADES
Sidhwa publicly portrayed himself as an American with no connection to the conflict.
His record tells a different story.
● He spent extended periods in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
● He wrote anti-Israel pieces as early as 2007.
● He helped edit multiple works by anti-Israel conspiracy theorist Norman Finkelstein.
● He later appeared on Iran’s state-run Press TV.
Far from a disinterested medic who wandered into a war zone, he is a lifelong anti-Israel activist with a deep religious conviction and a paper trail stretching back nearly two decades. He then mounted a carefully orchestrated campaign to launder himself into the mainstream. He arrived in Gaza with an established ideological position. The film hides all of this.
MARK PERLMUTTER TURNED WOUNDS INTO A VERDICT
Perlmutter treated horrific injuries, but Perlmutter described Gaza as worse than all the disaster zones he had previously encountered combined. There is only one problem – he never served in any war zones.
According to his own résumé, he served only in disaster zones affected by events such as hurricanes and earthquakes. Perlmutter has never seen war up close, let alone how a terrorist group like Hamas fights its wars. Perlmutter emerged from his first experience in an active war zone making sweeping allegations of genocide, deliberate child murder, and systematic Israeli criminality that extended far beyond anything his clinical observations could ever establish. What he certainly must have known was that Hamas summoned Gazans into hospitals and turned them into centers of interrogation and torture. He does not mention any of that.
THE THREE DOCTORS MADE LAUGHABLE CLAIMS
Two of the film’s featured doctors signed a letter declaring: “Not once did any of us see any type of Palestinian militant activity in any of Gaza’s hospitals.”
The third doctor separately said he saw no indication that Hamas was operating inside hospitals.
THE TRUTH: HOSPITALS WERE AMONG HAMAS’S MOST VALUABLE MILITARY ASSETS
Throughout the war, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad repeatedly used hospitals to conceal commanders, move hostages, store weapons, operate underground infrastructure, and intimidate civilians.
THE PUBLIC RECORD OF HAMAS’S USE OF HOSPITALS IS CLEAR
● U.S. intelligence on Al-Shifa
● First-person hostage testimony about Nasser
● A Reuters tour of a tunnel beneath European Hospital
● MSF reports of masked armed men, arrests, intimidation, and suspected weapons movement at Nasser
None of these sources is Israeli, and they are independent of one another.
AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL – HAMAS’S CENTRAL BASE OF OPERATIONS
A declassified U.S. intelligence assessment found that Hamas and Islamic Jihad used Al-Shifa and sites beneath it for their war efforts. The United States said the intelligence was independently corroborated.
● It served as a headquarters for Hamas leaders and military operations.
● It contained an extensive tunnel network for command, escape, and communications.
● It was used to transport hostages on October 7.
● Weapons and explosives were stored in hospital wards and basements.
● Senior Hamas operatives directed attacks from inside the facility.
● Attacks were launched from the hospital grounds under medical cover.
● Fighters were embedded among patients and medical staff as human shields.
NASSER HOSPITAL – HOSTAGE AND OPERATIVE HIDEOUT
A released Israeli hostage said she and more than two dozen other captives were held inside Nasser Hospital.
The film asks audiences to accept that visiting doctors saw no militants, yet a hostage described being imprisoned inside the hospital itself.
The bodies of hostages were held at the facility. Hamas operatives were sheltered there. Ambulances were used to transport Hamas operatives and hostages.
NASSER HOSPITAL – ANTI-ISRAEL NGO CORROBORATES THE CLAIMS
Don’t believe a former hostage or the IDF? In 2026, Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, suspended work at Nasser after its staff reported:
● Armed and masked men
● Intimidation
● Arbitrary arrests of patients
● Suspected weapons movement
MSF has repeatedly condemned Israel’s conduct in Gaza. Even MSF could no longer ignore armed activity inside the hospital.
EUROPEAN HOSPITAL
HAMAS’S MILITARY CHIEF WAS FOUND BELOW IT
Israeli forces killed Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s leader in Gaza, and other senior operatives in a tunnel beneath European Hospital. Weapons, ammunition, cash, and intelligence materials were recovered. Reuters reporters toured the tunnel after the operation. Yet Feroze Sidhwa and Mark Perlmutter worked at this hospital and insisted they saw no evidence of Hamas. Not that the film chose to disclose Sinwar was using the hospital as cover for his command center in any event.
RANTISI HOSPITAL – A CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL ALSO USED BY HAMAS
● Hostages were held in the basement alongside a command center.
● Grenades, suicide vests, and explosives were stored there.
● The site was used to hide hostages and transport them by motorcycle.
● Hamas operated tunnels beneath the facility.
● Attacks were launched from inside and around the hospital.
Yes, all of this at a Children’s Hospital.
PALESTINIANS ALSO STATED HAMAS USED GAZA’S HOSPITALS
Gazan activist Amin Abed accused Hamas of turning hospitals into interrogation and torture centers. He specifically named Al-Shifa, Nasser, Al-Aqsa, and Al-Maamdani hospitals. In April 2025, Islamic Jihad’s armed wing threatened Nasser’s head of nursing after he tried to keep the group’s gunmen out of the wards. A note warned him that he had “crossed the line.” And while these doctors were serving in Gaza, Tariq Salami Otha Abu Shlouf, spokesperson for the head of Islamic Jihad’s political bureau, stated:
“Terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip are operating from all of the hospitals in the Gaza Strip.” Dozens of Palestinians made similar claims. The film excludes all these Palestinian voices because their testimony destroys the film’s central narrative.
HAMAS’S HOSPITAL ABUSE PUT PALESTINIANS IN DANGER
International law gives hospitals special protection. But a medical site can lose that protection when it is used for military purposes, as Hamas and Islamic Jihad repeatedly did as part of their human-shield strategy. Any military response must still follow the rules on warnings, precautions, distinction, and proportionality. Israel followed these rules time and time again, even though the film refuses to discuss any of this.
THE DIRECTOR DID NOT INVESTIGATE. SHE CREATED A NARRATIVE.
Director Poh Si Teng described the war as genocide before the film was completed. She built the project around doctors who shared her same political beliefs.
This is unsurprising, since she had also worked as a documentary producer for Qatar’s state-sponsored propaganda outlet, Al Jazeera. This project did not begin as an investigation. It began with a verdict and searched for the characters who could deliver it. The film asks audiences to trust three advocates. It asks them to ignore the hostages, tunnels, weapons, commanders, intelligence findings, and Palestinian voices that contradict the film. Audiences deserve the full record.