Dr. Harara is trying to help an injured man get into hospital while under sniper fire. “Everything will be okay. Just do exactly what I’m instructing you to do.” (said in Arabic).

Every night, after hard work, I can’t sleep, due to what I saw during the day. The vision of martyrs and injuries.

He is shot and maybe he has a hemo-thorax, blood in his chest. We don’t have medication to complete the treatment, the simplest things like painkillers and anesthesia. We don’t have clothes, we don’t have gloves, we don’t have anything.

Conversation in Arabic with patients

Patient A: They told me to make a CT scan.

Patient B: Doctor, they told me they would send you medication.

Dr. Harara: You can get this at the pharmacy, not here.

To patient C - Vomiting is like that.

Patient C: Did you stamp it?

Dr. Harara: Yes, I approve.

This man is suffering from pain because we don’t have any anesthesia here. Israeli tanks are everywhere and we are completely surrounded. We have received 128 injuries and 5-6 martyrs since this morning. I don’t receive any help from any organization since the beginning of this war. I just work here as a volunteer. I spend all day here, working with the injured and finally we get time to drink. I live here in the hospital with my friend who is a journalist, in a tent, which is very, very small. My family is in another place. I can’t reach them. I hope they are safe. Let me see what food we have today. A lemon. Now I am going to the suq (market) to buy something to eat, because I don’t have any food in my tent.

This war destroyed everything, destroyed the hope we had before. I just had many dreams. One of them is to be a great doctor of plastic surgery. But now I’m just seeking for a safe place for my family, where they can live as humans. We fear that we are passing the same scenario as Al-Shifa hospital. I worked in Al-Shifa hospital and now the situation here is the same. The main question is why don’t you leave the hospital right now? Who will receive the injured and who will cure them?