Oscar-nominated producer and director Mike Lerner was unable to set foot in Gaza to make harrowing doc “ The Mission ,” which vividly depicts the medical work of British trauma surgeon Dr. Mohammed Tahir during the Israel-Hamas war. Instead, Lerner relied on material shot with cellphones by two of Dr. Tahir’s medical colleagues in Gaza.

With roughly 270 journalists killed in Gaza and no access allowed by the Israeli military to western film crews, medical professionals became the sole witnesses of the carnage in the operating rooms, filming on phones secretly smuggled into the war zone.

“At this time, although we have this ceasefire, we still do not want to reveal their identities because we know how ruthless the Israelis are in targeting medics and targeting journalists,” Lerner t

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