“American Doctor”: New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients

Film Follows US Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients

Poh Si Teng says the film rose out of “deep despair” over Gaza and Israeli attacks on her former Al Jazeera colleagues.

‘American Doctor’ Review: Three Doctors Travel to Gaza in a Bracing and Essential Documentary About Treating the Despair of an Ongoing Genocide

Poh Si Teng's remarkable film spotlights the best and most capable among us as part of a uniquely effective call to action.

“American Doctor”: New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients

The new documentary American Doctor tells the story of how the besieged hospitals of Gaza have continued to treat the sick and wounded throughout Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian territory, with local medical staff risking their own lives in the process. According to Palestinian officials, Israeli attacks have killed about 1,700 healthcare workers in Gaza since October 2023. The documentary follows three U.S. doctors as they volunteer in Gaza hospitals. Director Poh Si Teng says the

“American Doctor” Is an Indictment of US Leadership and Media

In a new documentary on Gaza, three humanitarian physicians from the United States navigate the horrors of genocide as they struggle to treat civilians in a buckling, under-resourced hospital in Khan Younis. Screening this week at the Angelika Film Center in Manhattan, journalist Poh Si Teng's debut feature documentary American Doctor (2026) uses the physicians' accounts as indisputable evidence of the cruelty inflicted on Gaza.Urgently produced…

Americans in Gaza: Financiers of a Graveyard

Photograph Source: WAFA (Q2915969) – CC BY-SA 3.0 The protracted slaughter in Gaza stands as one of the defining moral catastrophes of the modern era.  With tens of thousands of Palestinians killed, disproportionately women, children and infants, the descent of an entire enclave into manufactured famine, medical collapse and total annihilation has unfolded in real time. This is not happening in the dark.  It is happening in broad daylight; fun…

American Doctor Review: Clear-Eyed Look at the Genocide Your Tax Dollars Are Paying For

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens on August 14. When will this end? When will this bloodshed stop? And when will the United States of America stop supporting it? Filmmaker Poh Si Teng offers a clear-eyed, unrelenting look at the genocide in Gaza with her documentary American Doctor. It follows three doctors––Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, and Dr. Mark Perlmutter––that are consis…