Testimonies
This archive collects testimonies from healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza between 2023-2025.
About the projectDr. Feroze Sidhwa
USA
March - Apr. 2024
Dr. Tammy Abughnaim
USA
July - Aug. 2024
"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
"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
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
USA
March - Apr. 2024
Dr. Nick Maynard
UK
Dec. 2023 Jan. 2024
"People feel that their humanity is not recognized. People feel that they're abandoned and left to the slaughter."
Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim
UK
Mon Jul 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
Dr. Yipeng Ge
Canada
Thu Feb 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Yara Abou-Hamde
Canada
Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo
Canada
Dr. Rizwan Minhas
Canada
Dr. Ben Thompson
Canada
Dr. Noor Ul Amin
Canada
"The Israelis shot a GPS-guided bomb on the house where a British charity medical team was staying. "
Dr. Amer Shoaib
UK
January 2024
Dr. Abdullah Ghali
USA
April 2024
Dr. Mark Perlmutter
USA
March-April 2024
"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
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
Australia
Sat Mar 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Razan al-Nahhas
USA
"The surgeon across from me just, a very stoic, unemotional, strong, resilient surgeon just broke down in tears."
Dr. Samer Attar
USA
June 2024
"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
"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
March 2024
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
Australia
Sat Mar 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Samer Attar
USA
April 2025
"Beyond dystopian. This is the most horrific thing that most of us have ever witnessed or followed in our lifetimes. "
Dr. James Smith
UK
April-July 2024
"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
June - July 2024
"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
June 2025
Dr. Victoria Rose
UK
Aug. 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
January-february 2024
Dr. Fozia Alvi
Canada
Thu Feb 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Irfan Galaria
USA
Dr. Thaer Ahmad
USA
Dr. Vanita Gupta
USA
Dr. Osaid Alser
USA
Prof. Ghassan Abu-Sittah
UK
"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
June-July 2024
"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
Dr. Victoria Rose
UK
Aug. 2024
"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
Fri Mar 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Thaer Ahmad
USA
"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
"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
June-July 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
Fri Mar 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Ben Thompson
Canada
Fri Mar 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
"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
Thu May 02 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
Dr. Mohammed Tahir
UK
June 2024 - Feb 2025
Dr. Tammy Abughnaim
USA
July-Aug. 2024
"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
Sat Mar 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Samer Attar
USA
Dr. Khaled Dawas
UK
Mon Apr 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
"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
Fri May 03 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
Monica Johnson
USA
Thu May 02 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
"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
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan
Canada
Feb-Mar 2025
Arwa Damon
USA/Syria
Dr. Khaled Dawas
UK
Sun May 05 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
Dr. Mimi Syed
USA
Mon Dec 02 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Sanjay Adusumilli
Australia
Mon Apr 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
Dr. Sanjay Adusumilli
Australia
Mon Apr 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
Dr. Scarlett Wong
Australia
Dr. Modher Albeiruti
Australia
Dr. Mimi Syed
USA
Mon Dec 02 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Mimi Syed
USA
Mon Dec 02 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Mimi Syed
USA
Mon Dec 02 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Mimi Syed
USA
Mon Dec 02 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. James Smith
UK
Apr. - June 2024
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
Dr. Mimi Syed
USA
Mon Dec 02 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Nick Maynard
UK
July 2025
Dr. James Smith
UK
Dec. 2023 - Jan.2024
Dr. Tom Potokar
UK
Thu May 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
"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 - June 2025
"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. - March 2025
"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
"My patients were six-year-olds with shrapnels in their heart and bullets in their brains, and pregnant women."
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
USA
March - Apr. 2025
Dr. Razan al-Nahhas
USA
Feb. - March 2025
"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 2025
Dr. Victoria Rose
UK
May - June 2025
Dr. Graeme Groom
UK
May 2025
" 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
Thu May 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
"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. - March 2025
"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
July 2025
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
Australia
Sat Mar 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
"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
Dr. Milena Angelova-Chee
Bulgaria
Fri Aug 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
"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
"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 2025
Dr. Victoria Rose
UK
May - June 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
Sun Jun 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
Dr. Nick Maynard
UK
Tue Jul 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
Dr. Mohammed Tahir
UK
Sep. 2024 - Feb. 2025
"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
"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
"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
""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
March - Apr. 2025
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
USA
"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’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
March - Apr. 2025
"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
Mon Apr 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
Dr. Mimi Syed
USA
Sun Dec 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
"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
Sun Dec 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
""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
Thu May 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
Dr. Nada Al Hadithy
UK
Tue Jul 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
"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
Fri Aug 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
"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
Fri Aug 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
"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
July-Sept.2025
"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
Mon Sep 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
Dr. Saira Hussain
Australia
Fri Aug 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
"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
July 2025
Dr. Ambereen Sleemi
July 2025
"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
"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
"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
Tue Jul 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)
"There's no triage, people are grabbing your shoulder left and right, please see my daughter, please see my mum."
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
Australia
Sat Mar 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
"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
Mon Jan 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)
Dr. Mihir Chaudhary
USA
Sept.-Oct.