Testimonies

About the archive of testimonies

A testimony is something entirely different from a report, a statistic, a headline. It carries within it the experience of a specific person, at a specific moment, and places on the listener an obligation that is hard to escape: to pay attention. This archive brings together testimonies of people who were there — doctors, medical staff, civilians — and presents their voices, unmediated and unfiltered, to anyone willing to hear.

Behind the Testimonies

Translators’ Introduction Introduction by Dr. Michal Feldon Letter from Dr. Ezzideen Shehab Compassion as a political act of resistance

International Doctors

When the war broke out, international journalists were banned from entering the Gaza Strip. The exceptions (those who could enter) were several dozen international doctors and healthcare workers, highly experienced in conflict zones, whose entry into the Strip was granted on a limited basis.

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Gaza Healthcare Workers

They are in the hospitals, struggling to treat the wounded — children, women, the elderly, civilians — to provide medical care without anesthesia, without equipment, without medication, in hospitals under siege and even directly bombed, as they themselves become targets.

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

Dr. Victoria Rose

May - Jun 2025

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

Dr. Saira Hussain

Testimonies

About the archive of testimonies

Behind the Testimonies

International Doctors

Gaza Healthcare Workers

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

Dr. Victoria Rose

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

Dr. Saira Hussain

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

Dr. Samer Attar

"Every day I saw babies die."

99 American Medical Professionals

"She reminded me of my own daughter."

Dr. Yipeng Ge

Dr. Yara Abou-Hamde

Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo

Dr. Rizwan Minhas

Dr. Ben Thompson

Dr. Noor Ul Amin

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

Dr. Mohammed Mostafa

"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

"She was asking me to help her."

Dr. Mohammed Mostafa

"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

"Every single person I encountered was malnourished. "

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

"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

"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

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

"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

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

Dr. Nick Maynard

"These are not conditions for living."

Dr. Mimi Syed

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

Dr. Victoria Rose

"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

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

Dr. James Smith

Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan

Dr. Thaer Ahmad

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

Dr. Mark Perlmutter

"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

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

Dr. Yasser Khan

"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

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

Dr. Mimi Syed

"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

"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

"If images of torn and broken children are not enough to stop this madness, then what is?"

Dr. Ali Tahrawi

"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

"Up until now we have recorded 11 infants who died due to hypothermia"

Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra

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

Dr. Mihir Chaudhary

"We were amputating limbs because we didn't have the capacity to preserve the limbs, and that's how we get the patients to survive."

Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati

"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

"To have one session of renal dialysis is considered as a privilege"

Dr. Khamis Elessi

Prof. Ghassan Abu-Sittah

Dr. Samah Jabr