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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
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.
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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"There were children with 70% to 80% body burns."
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
Dr. Razan al-Nahhas
"Despite everything that had happened to him, he was so keen to tell his story"
Dr Andrew Ferguson
"A part of me just wanted him to die peacefully."
Dr. Sanjay Adusumilli
"The last thing I wanted to do was take his hope away. So I said, 'No, Inshallah, we're trying everything.'"
Dr. Irtaza Khan
"This kid was 6 years old."
Dr. Mark Perlmutter
"We have normalized a situation in which it's normal to kill doctors."
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
"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
"The locals, when I talk to them, they're always very hopeful and strong and resilient."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"The situation is catastrophic. Really, I'm very tired. I'm very tired. "
Dr. James Smith
Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi
"If this were a movie set, you would tell whoever creates movie sets, it was too much, that it was exaggerated."
Dr. Melinda Brecknell
"There is very little that you can do as a medical or humanitarian worker under such conditions."
Dr. James Smith
"He took me up into the ICU and showed me a number of different pieces of medical equipment. And all of them seemed to have a bullet hole in the screen. He was like, "I don't understand.""
Dr. Clayton Dalton
"I remember the anesthesia doctor on the phone begging the blood bank for blood."
Dr. Samer Attar
""They're hungry, they have no medication and they have no safe place""
Dr. Mimi Syed
"I did not see a ceasefire."
Dr. Irfan Galaria
"A bomb landed, his daughter was in the bathroom, and he went back to find her remains,"
Dr. Samer Attar
"The hemoglobin levels that are needed in order to donate blood safely are just not there. "
Anneliese Stephenson-Wenn
"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
"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
"I didn't do much, I just held his hand and I wiped his head."
Dr. Mohammed Tahir
"In an explosion when a blast goes off, everything around you gets weaponized."
Dr. Victoria Rose
"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
"Just imagine the healthcare workers doing these procedures without anesthetic"
Dr. Mhoira Leng
"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
"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
"The surgical repair was successful. She died because she had no nutrition."
Dr. Nick Maynard
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"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
"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
"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
"Every single person I encountered was malnourished. "
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
"He's unable to cry. He has no muscle, because the muscle is being broken down for energy."
Adil Hussain
"People feel that their humanity is not recognized. People feel that they're abandoned and left to the slaughter."
Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim
"In the midst of this hell, we still dream of life."
Dr. Hussam Hammouda
"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
"They took the employees, one by one, for investigation."
Dr. Ahmad al-Kahlout
"Here in Gaza, there are no pacemakers available at all."
Dr. Tarek Loubani
Dr. Zishan Siddiqui
Dr. Habib Rahman
"Mom, can we leave Gaza now? I really just want to live."
Dr. Ruba
"There were no cardiac surgeons at the hospital, so it fell to me to lead the operation."
Dr. Khaled Dawas
"If images of torn and broken children are not enough to stop this madness, then what is?"
Dr. Ali Tahrawi
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"I'm not sure that we're going to be able to save her arm. "
Dr. Victoria Rose
"As doctors, the people need all of us, and my love for them was what always motivated me to continue."
Dr. Khalid Abu-Habel
Dr. Tarneem Mahmoud
Dr. Mahitab Ahmed
Dr. Islam Al-Jourani
"I don't know which of my colleagues I'll see again"
Dr. Ambereen Sleemi
"We are working with the patients under mobile light only. We cannot save more lives."
Dr. Mohammed Qandil
"I saw that love for life came under attack, specifically trying to break the will of the people in Gaza. "
Dr. Thaer Ahmad
rajaa musleh
"Every night, after hard work, I can’t sleep, due to what I saw during the day. The vision of martyrs and injuries."
Dr. Mohammed Harara
"I don't understand how shooting children deliberately is justified."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"I prayed to our Lord to help me and save both the mother and the child."
Dr. Sara Al-Saqqa
"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)
"Gazan doctor struggles to save lives amid exhaustion, loss, and horrors of war"
Dr. Sohaib Al Hams
"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
"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
"This girl, Jenna, loved dancing before she had an amputation and this is a life-changing injury"
Dr. Nada Al Hadithy
"Actually we evacuated the the injured people and the patients with very difficult condition. So we are carrying them more than 200 m because all the roads to Al-Awda Hospital is totally closed."
Dr. Mohammed Salha
"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
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"Evacuating them means killing them."
Nebal Farsakh
Dr Fadel Naim
"You can’t confuse a two-year-old for a combatant."
Dr. Adam Hamawy
"Gazan doctors plead for help in saving premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital"
Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati
Dr. Shirin Nuʿman ʿAbid
"The elderly was where my heart really sank."
Dr. Ana Jeelani
"I saw [men] who had cigarette burns on their arms, it was very clear. One had a dog bite on his stomach."
Dr. Khalid Hamoudeh
Dr. Osama Tushtash
Dr. iyad Abed
Khader Abu Nada
Walid Khalili
"There's no triage, people are grabbing your shoulder left and right, please see my daughter, please see my mum."
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
"Up until now we have recorded 11 infants who died due to hypothermia"
Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra
"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
"Interrogators were instructed to work hard to make sure that I lost the use of my hands and became unable to perform surgery. They said they wanted to make sure I could never return to work."
Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
Dr. Nick Maynard
Dr. Issam Abu Ajwa
Prof. Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Dr. Bassam Miqdad
Dr. Khaled Alser
Dr. Mahmoud Abu Shehada
Dr. Ahmad muhanna
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"I've seen more incinerated children than I've ever seen in my entire life combined. "
Dr. Mark Perlmutter
"He arrived home to find every place he had returned to in his memories had been obliterated."
Dr. Ahmad muhanna
"About 70% of the patients that we are seeing are women and children."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"Every space that once promised safety has been turned to dust."
Dr. Ezzideen shehab
"Beyond dystopian. This is the most horrific thing that most of us have ever witnessed or followed in our lifetimes. "
Dr. James Smith
"The house collapsed on us."
Sara Yaqub Al-attar (patient)
"He had been injured as a result of an Israeli air strike. "
Dr. James Smith
"All of Gaza Needs Him"
Albina Abu Safiya
"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
"This Gaza doctor refused to abandon his patients. Israel tortured him to death"
Rozan al-Bursh
Dr. Khalid Hamoudeh
"Another day of devastation here in Gaza. "
Dr. Tom Potokar
"The situation is very, very bad. We need help. No one hears us."
Dr. Mohammed Obeid
"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
"Two days of horror. We are in a besieged Nasser hospital"
Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi
"I'm there looking at these two children, wondering what did they do?"
Dr. Mohammed Tahir
"He told me confess and we will stop torturing you."
Walid Khalili
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"What I see every day are people who are extremely thin. They have lost all their muscle mass. "
Dr. Milena Angelova-Chee
"To my shock, they hit inside the hospital’s compound."
Dr. Ali Tawil
"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
"At one point, among doctors and nurses, the only topic of conversation in the hospital was food, and the desperate hunt for it. "Starving doctors were treating malnutrition," [...] And the injured just kept coming."
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib
"My patients were six-year-olds with shrapnels in their heart and bullets in their brains, and pregnant women."
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
"Eight paramedics and one doctor were killed in the previous three days."
Dr. Khamis Elessi
"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
"And Hunger Was Given Dominion over Us"
Dr. Ezzideen Shehab
"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
Dr. Victoria Rose
"Childbirth isn’t a joyous welcoming of new life any more."
Nour Mwanis
"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
Dr. Sarah Lalonde
Dr. Yipeng Ge
Dr. Rizwan Minhas
Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo
"This is the only catheterization machine currently working in Gaza."
Dr. Wael Hijazi
"I never thought I could see it get worse, but here I am. "
Dr. Mimi Syed
"After not being able to bear the pain anymore, I admitted to all the accusations"
Walid Khalili
"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
"We are in a system collapse"
Dr. Yousef
"I could still feel her arms around my neck."
Dr. Ahmad Yousaf
"After all the beating, all the torture and all the interrogation, they still weren’t able to pin anything on him."
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
"Every patient who I see, I can clearly make out their spine, I can make out their scapula, their shoulder blades. I can see how much weight they've lost, the skin that's hanging off of them."
Dr. Tarek Loubani
"I have nightmares of what I witnessed when I sleep."
Munther Abed
"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
"A little while ago, one of the hospital's neighbors was targeted."
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
"Any kind of disability in Gaza is a death sentence."
Dr. Yasser Khan
"Amongst the patients he's treating following an Israeli air strike are his own children. He searches for his youngest son only to find him dead."
Dr. Ahmad muhanna
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mousa
"In the first 20 minutes I personally pronounced probably between eight and twelve dead — all children, children and women."
Dr. Morgan McMonagle
"I’m so sorry the world failed you, Zainab."
Dr. Ali Tahrawi
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