Testimonies

"Now I understand why all of these children come into the emergency department shivering."

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan

Canada Feb - Mar 2025

Arwa Damon

USA/Syria

"These are not conditions for living."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug 2026

"Her father was there, crying and asking me, ‘Can you save her? She’s my only child.’"

Dr. Fozia Alvi

Canada Aug 2026

Dr. Irfan Galaria

USA

Dr. Thaer Ahmad

USA

Dr. Vanita Gupta

USA

Dr. Osaid Alser

USA

Prof. Ghassan Abu-Sittah

UK

Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi

"I was operating all day, I'm a surgeon, and there was an attack on the intensive care unit."

Dr. Nick Maynard

UK Dec 2023

"People are dying from things that they should not be dying from, and a lot of it has to do with a lack of sanitation that they have, their inability to provide water."

Dr. Khaled Al-Hreish

USA June-July

"We're giving them Ibuprofen for an arm that's been blown off."

Monica Johnson

USA Aug 2026

"This man was so traumatized, I honestly can't imagine him ever practicing medicine again."

Dr. Ben Thompson

Canada Aug 2026

"She was no fighter. She was a pregnant woman who was sitting in her home when a bomb dropped on her head. "

Dr. Ahmad Yousaf

USA Jun - Jul 2024

"I remember the anesthesia doctor on the phone begging the blood bank for blood."

Dr. Samer Attar

USA

"On Saturday evening, four young teenage boys came in, all shot in their testicles. It appeared like a game of target practice."

Dr. Nick Maynard

UK Jul 2025

Dr. Ambereen Sleemi

"A war zone generates injuries that need soft tissue reconstruction, which is our specialty. So every time we go we make such a huge impact on the population, on the injured population"

Dr. Tom Potokar

UK May - Jun 2025

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK

"A bomb landed, his daughter was in the bathroom, and he went back to find her remains,"

Dr. Samer Attar

USA Apr 2025

"There were no cardiac surgeons at the hospital, so it fell to me to lead the operation."

Dr. Khaled Dawas

UK Aug 2026

"Amid all this horror, there were moments of light. We took great joy seeing Juri’s personality resurface once her sepsis resolved."

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA March - Apr. 2024

Dr. Mark Perlmutter

USA March - Apr. 2024

"You can’t confuse a two-year-old for a combatant."

Dr. Adam Hamawy

USA May 2024

"We operated in unsterile settings that would’ve been unthinkable in the United States. We had limited access to critical medical equipment."

Dr. Irfan Galaria

USA Jan - Feb 2024

"The trauma doesn't just happen in the three or four year olds now, it happens in their children and their children after them."

Dr. Ahmad Yousaf

USA Jun - Jul 2024

"A woman came in with asthma symptoms. She'd been cooking over a stove, breathing in toxic fumes because she was burning plastic."

Dr. Nahreen Ahmed

USA Dec 2025

"I find myself wanting to cry constantly, but I just don't have the time moving from one person to another."

Dr. Mark Brauner

USA Aug 2026

"Apache helicopter is outside Al-Quds hospital, and it is shooting...right now we're completely surrounded by the occupation forces and they are circling the hospital"

Andee Clark Vaughan

USA Jul - Sep 2025

"The driver who brought us out on the last day said to me, ‘Anyone left in Gaza now is either dead or will be dead very soon.’"

Dr. Morgan McMonagle

Ireland Feb - Mar 2025

"Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” "

Dr. Aqsa Durrani

USA Feb - Apr 2025

"There were children with 70% to 80% body burns."

Dr. Mohammed Mostafa

Australia Aug 2026

Dr. Razan al-Nahhas

USA

"Mothers can't even breastfeed because they are so malnourished."

Dr. Nick Maynard

UK Aug 2026

"There’s a designated area for children to die, alongside other dying children, where their families can stay with them and pray."

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA Mar - Apr 2025

"I'm not sure that we're going to be able to save her arm. "

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK May - Jun 2025

""They both just had terrible brain injuries. ... So I had to just tell their families, I just had to pick them up and say, 'You know, they're going to die, there's nothing I can do about that.'""

Dr. Mark Perlmutter

USA Mar - Apr 2025

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA

"As soon as her husband got home to be with the children while his wife was at work, on-call in the emergency department, the home was struck."

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan

Canada Feb - Mar 2025

"Leaving to seek treatment for your child [...] versus leaving your family behind and knowing that you may never see them again."

Dr. Mohammed Tahir

UK Jun 2024 - Feb 2025

"Incredibly powerful explosives ripped apart rock, floors, and walls and threw them through human bodies, penetrating skin with waves of dirt and debris. "

Dr. Mark Perlmutter

USA March - Apr. 2024

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA March - Apr. 2024

"There is very little that you can do as a medical or humanitarian worker under such conditions."

Dr. James Smith

UK Apr - Jun 2024

"The children of Gaza with their eyes wide open and full of innocence have been subjected to horrors that no child should ever face."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Dec 2024

"Either the baby dies because there's no ventilator, or the baby dies because of the infection. Your options were tragically limited."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug. - Sep. 2024

Dr. Aman Odeh

USA March - Apr. 2024

Dr. Thalia Pachiyannakis

USA June - July 2024

"He had been injured as a result of an Israeli air strike. "

Dr. James Smith

UK Apr - Jun 2024

"On one side you see the remains of Gaza and on the other side is farmland being watered, and it’s very dystopian. "

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK May - Jun 2025

"I don't understand how shooting children deliberately is justified."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Dec 2024

"The last thing I wanted to do was take his hope away. So I said, 'No, Inshallah, we're trying everything.'"

Dr. Irtaza Khan

USA/Pakistan Oct 2025

"I pronounced more people dead there than I usually do in a year at my work as a trauma surgeon in California."

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA March - Apr. 2024

"I did not see a ceasefire."

Dr. Irfan Galaria

USA Nov 2025

"There's nothing that you can do to replace the love of parents. You can bring their aunts, you can bring their uncles. There's absolutely nothing that we can do for them."

Dr. Aqsa Durrani

USA Feb - Apr 2025

"This explosion felt close. You could feel it. It's not unusual. We carried on as usual. We carried on working."

Rachael Moses

UK Aug 2025

"It's not believable that the best-trained marksmen in the world accidentally shot a three-year-old boy in the head."

Dr. Mark Perlmutter

USA March - Apr. 2024

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA March - Apr. 2024

"My patients were six-year-olds with shrapnels in their heart and bullets in their brains, and pregnant women."

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA Mar - Apr 2025

"As it got closer to their release, they reported increasing levels of physical attacks and abuse."

Dr. Mihir Chaudhary

USA Sept.-Oct.

"The bottom line is this is a human rights issue and children are being murdered. It's got to stop. And we've got to stop supporting it."

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK Aug 2024

"I thought, when will this end?"

Dr. Mohammed Tahir

UK Jun - Aug 2024

"That day will be for me this child that was seemingly sleeping all alone on the floor, you know, blood everywhere, you know, people screaming and this kid just [...] lying there and doing [...] nothing in the middle of a ton of noise."

Karin Huster

USA Jun 2024

"A part of me just wanted him to die peacefully."

Dr. Sanjay Adusumilli

Australia Aug 2026

"Every single person I encountered was malnourished. "

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA Mar - Apr 2024

"Another day of devastation here in Gaza. "

Dr. Tom Potokar

UK Aug 2026

"Trying to explain to a little boy that you are using a saw to cut through his bone."

Dr. Abdullah Ghali

USA Apr 2024

"Bones are not reknitting back together, wounds are just not healing here because you need to have protein. you have to have stable nutrition."

Andee Clark Vaughan

USA Aug 2026

"The woman on the operating table is badly injured. Her husband and children were all killed. She doesn't know yet."

Dr. Tom Potokar

UK May - Jun 2025

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK

Dr. Graeme Groom

UK

"Beyond dystopian. This is the most horrific thing that most of us have ever witnessed or followed in our lifetimes. "

Dr. James Smith

UK Apr - Jul 2024

"They all came in dressed in their Id (holiday) clothing."

Dr. Razan al-Nahhas

USA Feb - Mar 2025

"I've seen more incinerated children than I've ever seen in my entire life combined. "

Dr. Mark Perlmutter

USA Mar - Apr 2024

"I never thought I could see it get worse, but here I am. "

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug 2026

"Many children would not speak for days, even with their family at bedside. One child would not accept a gift I brought of a little plastic car, because she did not want to touch or talk to anyone but her father."

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA

"As a human being, you can't, just can’t discount the unimaginable suffering that's happening here to children, to women, everybody."

Monica Johnson

USA Aug 2026

"There's no triage, people are grabbing your shoulder left and right, please see my daughter, please see my mum."

Dr. Mohammed Mostafa

Australia Aug 2026

"This is genocide. When 70% of the population that are killed are women and children, when the population is starved of food, of water, of medicine, when you have attacks, repeated attacks on all the hospitals, the clinics, the aid distribution sites, the humanitarian aid agencies that try to help."

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan

Canada Aug 2026

Dr. Thaer Ahmad

USA

"The surgeon across from me just, a very stoic, unemotional, strong, resilient surgeon just broke down in tears."

Dr. Samer Attar

USA Jun 2024

"They end up drinking this water that's actually just meant for like washing and such."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug 2026

"Despite everything that had happened to him, he was so keen to tell his story"

Dr Andrew Ferguson

UK Dec 2023 - Jan 2024

"This kid was 6 years old."

Dr. Mark Perlmutter

USA Mar 2025

"The staff are continuing to turn up to work. They are hungry. They are fainting on the job"

Dr. Saira Hussain

Australia Aug 2026

"Operating on children who would say, I was lying on the ground after a bomb had dropped, and this quadcopter came down and hovered over me and shot me."

Prof. Nizam Mamode

UK Aug - Sep 2024

"In an explosion when a blast goes off, everything around you gets weaponized."

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK Aug 2024

"It can't be viewed as anything else because 50% of the population are children. So it is a war on children. Whether or not it is intended to be a war on children is irrelevant. It is a war on children."

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK Aug - Sep 2024

"I say this as somebody who walked over the body of a dead child, while the mother was grieving, to treat another patient in Nasser hospital."

Dr. Thaer Ahmad

USA Aug 2026

"I could still feel her arms around my neck."

Dr. Ahmad Yousaf

USA Jun - Jul 2024

"These kids are tiny, they are underweight and malnourished."

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK May - Jun 2025

"I'm there looking at these two children, wondering what did they do?"

Dr. Mohammed Tahir

UK Jun 2024 - Feb 2025

"The elderly was where my heart really sank."

Dr. Ana Jeelani

UK Oct 2024

"I said, okay, is there any way of retrieving the arm? And he was a bit shocked. I said, no, I mean, I'm serious. Is there a way of retrieving the arm? And he said, okay. "

Dr. Mohammed Tahir

UK Jun 2024 - Feb 2025

"This is again an urgent plea to stop this and an urgent plea for help."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug 2026

""Almost every day, you find out that one of your surgical colleagues, a nurse or a pediatrician here has had a relative brought in after being hit.""

Dr. Tom Potokar

UK Aug 2026

"A seven-month-old baby lies in our paediatric intensive care unit, so tiny and malnourished that I initially mistook her for a newborn."

Dr. Nick Maynard

UK Jul 2025

"Just imagine the healthcare workers doing these procedures without anesthetic"

Dr. Mhoira Leng

UK Mar - Apr 2024

"They don't let journalists enter, and they kill the Gazan journalists who are there, so the doctors who come there reveal the truth to the world."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug 2025

"She was asking me to help her."

Dr. Mohammed Mostafa

Australia Aug 2026

"If there's any chaos, then, you know, they just start opening fire. And then we see it in our facility, you know, 20, 30 minutes later."

Dr. Mark Brauner

USA Jun 2025

"What I see every day are people who are extremely thin. They have lost all their muscle mass. "

Dr. Milena Angelova-Chee

Bulgaria Aug 2026

"I don't know which of my colleagues I'll see again"

Dr. Ambereen Sleemi

USA Jul 2025

"The Israelis shot a GPS-guided bomb on the house where a British charity medical team was staying. "

Dr. Amer Shoaib

UK Jan 2024

"This is worse than anything I’ve ever seen. The scale of destruction is something that I couldn’t even comprehend before I got here. "

Dr. Kathleen Gallagher

USA Aug 2026

"The locals, when I talk to them, they're always very hopeful and strong and resilient."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug 2026

"Every day I saw babies die."

99 American Medical Professionals

"You feel a huge responsibility to go back and do something. "

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK May - Jun 2025

"I went in about a week after the cease fire started. And it was, you know, it was, it was such a low bar to clear. It’s just to stop dropping bombs on, on everyone."

Dr. Adam Hamawy

USA Aug 2026

"They ordered him to abandon the patient who he was closing the wound on. He refused to do so. So, he was shot in the knee."

Dr. Mark Perlmutter

USA Aug 2026

"In the explosions the children would either get burnt, or shrapnel."

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK Aug 2024

"There are children who I met also, who had lost all their families."

Dr. Khaled Dawas

UK Aug 2026

"The situation is catastrophic. Really, I'm very tired. I'm very tired. "

Dr. James Smith

UK Dec 2023 - Jan 2024

Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi

"Why did they target me? I'm a man. I have a job. I've never been involved in politics. I don't own a gun. Why was I chosen?"

Dr. Deirdre Noonan

Canada Feb.-Apr. 2025

Dr. Sarah Lalonde

Canada Jan. - Feb. 2025

Dr. Yipeng Ge

Canada Feb. 2024

Dr. Rizwan Minhas

Canada Apr. 2024

Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo

Canada

" They have never seen with their own eyes what is going on, heard the screams, smelt the rotting flesh, shuddered from the constant bombardment. "

Dr. Tom Potokar

UK Aug 2026

"I didn't do much, I just held his hand and I wiped his head."

Dr. Mohammed Tahir

UK Sep 2024 - Feb 2025

"The hemoglobin levels that are needed in order to donate blood safely are just not there. "

Anneliese Stephenson-Wenn

USA Aug - Sep 2025

"These children would be laid on the floor, limp and lifeless, and we would declare them dead immediately. "

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan

Canada Feb - Mar 2025

Anna Halford

UK

Rohan Talbot

UK

Shaina Low

USA

"The scale of violence directed at Gaza’s civilians is unlike anything any of us has ever seen."

152 American Medical Professionals

"Her cries didn't seem like the usual cries of pain during labour. It turned out that her husband and five children all had been murdered in front of her."

Heba Al-Nashef (midwife)

Canada Jun - Jul 2024

""They're hungry, they have no medication and they have no safe place""

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Dec 2024

"About 70% of the patients that we are seeing are women and children."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Dec 2024

"I remember their faces, their earrings, their two little first teeth. I remember how carefully they had been dressed for sleep in their cold tents, the delicateness with which their hair was braided. "

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan

Canada Feb - Mar 2025

"This girl, Jenna, loved dancing before she had an amputation and this is a life-changing injury"

Dr. Nada Al Hadithy

UK Aug 2026

"People feel that their humanity is not recognized. People feel that they're abandoned and left to the slaughter."

Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim

UK Aug 2026

"A doctor is obligated to speak for their patients – it's not enough just to perform the surgery. My job is also to tell people what I saw."

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA Nov 2025

"I recall his vacant stare and his soft voice whispering into my ear. I wish I had died with them. "

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan

Canada Mar 2024

"Every corridor in the hospital had half the width occupied by mattresses on the floor with IDPs sitting and lying – children, men and women of all ages."

Dr. Amer Shoaib

UK Jan 2024

"I see him in the emergency department trying to resuscitate a man whose arms and legs, sorry, whose both legs and one arm had been blown off."

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan

Canada Aug 2026

"Literally every day I was there, I saw a child shot in the head. "

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA March - Apr. 2024

Dr. Tammy Abughnaim

USA July - Aug. 2024

"Do we really call this a ceasefire?"

Dr. Morten Rostrup

Norway Oct 2025

"She reminded me of my own daughter."

Dr. Yipeng Ge

Canada Aug 2026

Dr. Yara Abou-Hamde

Canada

Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo

Canada

Dr. Rizwan Minhas

Canada

Dr. Ben Thompson

Canada

Dr. Noor Ul Amin

Canada

"We have normalized a situation in which it's normal to kill doctors."

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA March - Apr. 2024

"The kids I was watching had neck injuries."

Prof. Christos Georgalas

Greece Apr - May 2025

"I didn’t know what to do. Do I yell or cry or carry my daughter? "

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug. - Sep. 2024

Dr. Tammy Abughnaim

USA July - Aug. 2024

Dr. Mark Perlmutter

USA March - Apr. 2024

Dr. Ayaz Pathan

USA July - Aug. 2024

Dr. Nabeel Rana

USA June - July 2024

Dr. Mohammed Adeel Khaleel

USA Nov. 2024

Dr. Yassar Arain

USA Apr. 2024

Miranda Cleland

Charles Blaha

"I just want the killing to stop, and I want these kids to grow up with a chance in the future."

Dr. Mohammed Mostafa

Australia Aug 2026

"I've done more amputations, and seen more traumatic amputations of children's, than I've seen during my entire career in the last two weeks."

Dr. Adam Hamawy

USA May 2024

"Any kind of disability in Gaza is a death sentence."

Dr. Yasser Khan

Canada Dec 2023

"There was virtually no formula feed to feed these newborn babies, all these infants."

Dr. Nick Maynard

UK Jul 2025

"In the ER there, ventilators were so scarce that if there was a 70-year-old and a 20-year-old both requiring one, we had to decide who gets it. "

Dr. Aziz Rahman

USA Jun 2025

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"Their only crime was the fact that they were healing people."

Dr. Tammy Abughnaim

USA Jul - Aug 2024

"The one playground that I saw on the second day or third day that I was there got bombed, 15 kids came in that day Dead on arrival."

Dr. Aziz Bhimani

Austalia May 2024

"You can't get past these memories. "

Dr. Sanjay Adusumilli

Australia Aug 2026

Dr. Scarlett Wong

Australia

Dr. Modher Albeiruti

Australia

"His mother tells al-Farra that she tried to breastfeed him but didn't have enough milk. When formula became too expensive, she started to feed him starch dissolved in water."

Dr. Ahmad Al Farra

Aug 2025

"I saw that love for life came under attack, specifically trying to break the will of the people in Gaza. "

Dr. Thaer Ahmad

USA Jan 2024

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"This was a bullet which was in the left upper thigh of a six-year-old child for the last few months. "

Dr. Junaid Sultan

UK Aug 2026