 In the period that followed Gilbert and Fosse's extraction from Gaza, they continued to be covered in Norwegian and international media.In an open letter to the medical journal "The Lancet", Gilbert and Fosse described the Gaza situation as a "nightmarish havoc", stating that they had "witnessed the most horrific war injuries in men, women and children of all ages in numbers almost too large to comprehend".Later on the Lancet editor in chief Prof Richard Horton distanced himself from two of the co-signers.