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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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"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
"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
"Their only crime was the fact that they were healing people."
Dr. Tammy Abughnaim
"They all came in dressed in their Id (holiday) clothing."
Dr. Razan al-Nahhas
"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
"This girl, Jenna, loved dancing before she had an amputation and this is a life-changing injury"
Dr. Nada Al Hadithy
"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
"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
Dr. Aman Odeh
Dr. Thalia Pachiyannakis
"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
"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
"The scale of violence directed at Gaza’s civilians is unlike anything any of us has ever seen."
152 American Medical Professionals
"You feel a huge responsibility to go back and do something. "
Dr. Victoria Rose
"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
"The locals, when I talk to them, they're always very hopeful and strong and resilient."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"There were children with 70% to 80% body burns."
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
Dr. Razan al-Nahhas
"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
"We have normalized a situation in which it's normal to kill doctors."
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
"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 don't know which of my colleagues I'll see again"
Dr. Ambereen Sleemi
"He had been injured as a result of an Israeli air strike. "
Dr. James Smith
""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
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
""They're hungry, they have no medication and they have no safe place""
Dr. Mimi Syed
"I remember the anesthesia doctor on the phone begging the blood bank for blood."
Dr. Samer Attar
"You can’t confuse a two-year-old for a combatant."
Dr. Adam Hamawy
"The woman on the operating table is badly injured. Her husband and children were all killed. She doesn't know yet."
Dr. Tom Potokar
Dr. Victoria Rose
Dr. Graeme Groom
"This is again an urgent plea to stop this and an urgent plea for help."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"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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"I find myself wanting to cry constantly, but I just don't have the time moving from one person to another."
Dr. Mark Brauner
"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
"The situation is catastrophic. Really, I'm very tired. I'm very tired. "
Dr. James Smith
Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi
"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
"I stood there helpless - not because I didn’t know how to treat her, but because we had nothing to treat her with."
Dr. Hussam Hammouda
"A bomb landed, his daughter was in the bathroom, and he went back to find her remains,"
Dr. Samer Attar
"Two days of horror. We are in a besieged Nasser hospital"
Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi
"These are not conditions for living."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"You try to behave like a doctor, professionally, at that point. Then on the other hand, you are a human being, you are a person, and you can't hold yourself and start crying out of your control."
Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati
"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
"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
"This kid was 6 years old."
Dr. Mark Perlmutter
"Yesterday, I had to stop the resuscitation of a patient . . . because if she made it back to life, we had no ventilator to offer her."
Dr. Hammam Alloh
Dr. Yousef Al-Akkad
Dr. Reda Abu Assi
"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 saw people's clothes on the ground and couldn't tell if they were alive or not. It was humiliating."
Dr. Haya Hashem Salman
"These children would be laid on the floor, limp and lifeless, and we would declare them dead immediately. "
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan
Anna Halford
Rohan Talbot
Shaina Low
"Every day felt like an endless nightmare. Yet, I clung to life, working amidst the injured, trying to treat them, and praying that this hell would someday end."
Anwar Younis Rabah Al-Masri
"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
"That night was not only their death — it was the death of something within me too"
Dr. Hussam Hammouda
"Here in Gaza, there are no pacemakers available at all."
Dr. Tarek Loubani
Dr. Zishan Siddiqui
Dr. Habib Rahman
"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 explosion felt close. You could feel it. It's not unusual. We carried on as usual. We carried on working."
Rachael Moses
"He arrived home to find every place he had returned to in his memories had been obliterated."
Dr. Ahmad muhanna
"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
"I have suffered a lot of punishment and beating from the soldiers there without any charge."
Dr. Khaled Alser
"Another day of devastation here in Gaza. "
Dr. Tom Potokar
"If images of torn and broken children are not enough to stop this madness, then what is?"
Dr. Ali Tahrawi
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"Despite everything that had happened to him, he was so keen to tell his story"
Dr Andrew Ferguson
"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
"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
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
"I was seeing my colleagues so exhausted and drained. Seeing that made me afraid. I did not want to be exposed to the same scenes."
Dr. Zena Alqudwa
"Do we really call this a ceasefire?"
Dr. Morten Rostrup
"They look at me with eyes that ask for comfort, not medicine."
Dr. Ahmed Seyam
"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
"I’m not just sad at what is happening here for Palestinians. I’m really sad at Israelis themselves."
Dr. Mohammed Saqr
"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)
"The operating rooms were full, and we had to leave the patients there suffering"
Dr. Hussam Hammouda
"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
Dr. Mark Perlmutter
"He told me confess and we will stop torturing you."
Walid Khalili
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"Her father was there, crying and asking me, ‘Can you save her? She’s my only child.’"
Dr. Fozia Alvi
Dr. Irfan Galaria
Dr. Thaer Ahmad
Dr. Vanita Gupta
Dr. Osaid Alser
Prof. Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi
"The hospitals were targeted from the beginning."
Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati
"The elderly was where my heart really sank."
Dr. Ana Jeelani
"At hospital, I found medical staff on the floor naked handcuffed and blindfolded"
Dr. Ahmed Abu Sobha
"I could still feel her arms around my neck."
Dr. Ahmad Yousaf
"They're attacking kids, they're attacking families, they're attacking innocent people."
Mohammad Hawajreh
"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
"Mom, can we leave Gaza now? I really just want to live."
Dr. Ruba
"Beyond dystopian. This is the most horrific thing that most of us have ever witnessed or followed in our lifetimes. "
Dr. James Smith
"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
"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
"Today we were for two hours searching for drinkable water. Even drinkable water is not available any more"
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib
"In the explosions the children would either get burnt, or shrapnel."
Dr. Victoria Rose
"We are heading to the so-called ‘safe zone.’ But there is no safe space here after what happened the day before yesterday."
Dr. Safa Jaber
"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
"We had dreams"
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib
"The kids I was watching had neck injuries."
Prof. Christos Georgalas
"After 60 days of war I'm losing hope, and I am saying that the ones who passed away in the [first] few days were very lucky."
Dr. Ruba
"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
"However you describe the suffering and the insult in prison, you can never know the reality unless you lived through it."
Dr. Said Abdulrahman Maarouf
"My patients were six-year-olds with shrapnels in their heart and bullets in their brains, and pregnant women."
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
"There are no words to describe the situation in Kamal Adwan Hospital"
Dr. Mohammed Obeid
"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
"We go out searching for test strips and insulin, but they're nowhere to be found."
Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra
Dr. Wael Hijazi
Anneliese Stephenson-Wenn
"There are children who I met also, who had lost all their families."
Dr. Khaled Dawas
"He walks through a wounded city searching for bandages so that doctors can treat his son."
Dr. Ezzideen shehab
"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
"We are in a system collapse"
Dr. Yousef
"There's no triage, people are grabbing your shoulder left and right, please see my daughter, please see my mum."
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
"It’s not a coincidence, they mean to attack the houses of the people who can treat the wounded people."
Dr. Khaled Alser
Dr. Khalid Hamoudeh
Dr. Osaid Alser
Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi
Ahmed Abu Aqel
"The Israelis shot a GPS-guided bomb on the house where a British charity medical team was staying. "
Dr. Amer Shoaib
"I feel unbearably helpless before my dying patients. Countless times, I’ve failed to piece together the shattered bodies of children."
Dr. Ali Tahrawi
"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
"I never thought that this would actually be happening in a hospital."
Dr. Sara Al-Saqqa
"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
"I prayed to our Lord to help me and save both the mother and the child."
Dr. Sara Al-Saqqa
"As it got closer to their release, they reported increasing levels of physical attacks and abuse."
Dr. Mihir Chaudhary
"There is something profoundly cruel about a world in which a mother’s greatest hope for her child is no longer a better future. Only a little less suffering tonight."
Dr. Ezzideen shehab
"The surgeon across from me just, a very stoic, unemotional, strong, resilient surgeon just broke down in tears."
Dr. Samer Attar
"So that tells you a lot about the resilience of the Gazans. The rehabilitation started while the war was ongoing - it never stopped."
Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati
Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya
"Any kind of disability in Gaza is a death sentence."
Dr. Yasser Khan
"“I hope, I hope we will survive,”"
Dr. Mohammed Saqr
Dr. Khamis Elessi
"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
"I can't leave if you're shooting at me."
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib
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"Every day I saw babies die."
99 American Medical Professionals
"Anyone inside Sde Teiman at least once faced beating by batons, by fists, kicking, or even get bitten by the dogs."
Dr. Khaled Alser
"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
"Patients who suffer from cardiovascular disease, renal disease, they do not have their medicines."
Dr. Khamis Elessi
"Just imagine the healthcare workers doing these procedures without anesthetic"
Dr. Mhoira Leng
"And Hunger Was Given Dominion over Us"
Dr. Ezzideen Shehab
"The hemoglobin levels that are needed in order to donate blood safely are just not there. "
Anneliese Stephenson-Wenn
"991 is one of 48 kids that have passed away in my arms during the past 200 days, still counting. I’ve become very familiar with what the last breath looks like."
Dr. Khalil khalidi
"What I see every day are people who are extremely thin. They have lost all their muscle mass. "
Dr. Milena Angelova-Chee
"Up until now we have recorded 11 infants who died due to hypothermia"
Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra
"Every single person I encountered was malnourished. "
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
"All of Gaza Needs Him"
Albina Abu Safiya
"I'm there looking at these two children, wondering what did they do?"
Dr. Mohammed Tahir
"Gazan doctor struggles to save lives amid exhaustion, loss, and horrors of war"
Dr. Sohaib Al Hams
"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
"This is the war of hunger, the war of slow death."
Dr. Ezzideen shehab
"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
"We were treating our own people, children, mothers, classmates, and the number of injured weighs heavily on us."
Dr. Ezz Lulu
"They end up drinking this water that's actually just meant for like washing and such."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"we need to be strong and focus on saving lives"
Dr. Ahmad abu yassin
"Literally every day I was there, I saw a child shot in the head. "
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
Dr. Tammy Abughnaim
"We are working with the patients under mobile light only. We cannot save more lives."
Dr. Mohammed Qandil
"Now I understand why all of these children come into the emergency department shivering."
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan
Arwa Damon
"I am Alaa Al-Najjar, a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, and a mother of ten children who were my life, my path, and my entire existence."
Dr. Alaa al-Najjar
"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
Dr. Ambereen Sleemi
"A little while ago, one of the hospital's neighbors was targeted."
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
"If this were a movie set, you would tell whoever creates movie sets, it was too much, that it was exaggerated."
Dr. Melinda Brecknell
"This Gaza doctor refused to abandon his patients. Israel tortured him to death"
Rozan al-Bursh
Dr. Khalid Hamoudeh
"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
"ֵEveryone was praying to God that none of their relatives would be present among the dead and the injured."
Dr. Mohammed Qishta
"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
"Gazan doctors plead for help in saving premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital"
Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati
Dr. Shirin Nuʿman ʿAbid
"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
"I have chosen to resist in a different way—through academic action."
Dr. Abdulwhhab Abu Alamrain
"We're giving them Ibuprofen for an arm that's been blown off."
Monica Johnson
"We are looking for my sister's son. Every day I go with her to try to identify the body."
Anonymous doctor
"I never thought I could see it get worse, but here I am. "
Dr. Mimi Syed
"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 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
"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
"She was asking me to help her."
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
"We need electronic beds, we need assistive devices for patients; currently we are releasing patients who need devises because we are unable to provide these to them."
Dr. Faiza Barqan
"Leaving to seek treatment for your child [...] versus leaving your family behind and knowing that you may never see them again."
Dr. Mohammed Tahir
"When I brought my children to the hospital, I refused to let my colleagues deal with their injuries. I dealt with them alone."
Dr. Sohaib Safi
Weam Atallah
Ahmed Qutayfan
Dr. Ahmed Seyam
Nour Alsaqqa
Kholoud Al-Sedawi
" 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
"They took the employees, one by one, for investigation."
Dr. Ahmad al-Kahlout
"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
"This is the only catheterization machine currently working in Gaza."
Dr. Wael Hijazi
"The last thing I wanted to do was take his hope away. So I said, 'No, Inshallah, we're trying everything.'"
Dr. Irtaza Khan
"The list is too long … and I will never see any of them again"
Dr. Hazem Maloh
"The staff are continuing to turn up to work. They are hungry. They are fainting on the job"
Dr. Saira Hussain
"Enough is enough. We ask for a ceasefire. Stop killing."
Mohammad Hawajreh
"There were no cardiac surgeons at the hospital, so it fell to me to lead the operation."
Dr. Khaled Dawas
"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
""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
"Childbirth isn’t a joyous welcoming of new life any more."
Nour Mwanis
"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
"You think I went to medical school and for my postgraduate degrees for a total of 14 years so I think only about my life and not my patients?"
Dr. Hammam Alloh
"A part of me just wanted him to die peacefully."
Dr. Sanjay Adusumilli
"This 13-year-old, wait for operation and see that I amputate the mid-foot of her brother"
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
"He's unable to cry. He has no muscle, because the muscle is being broken down for energy."
Adil Hussain
"These kids are tiny, they are underweight and malnourished."
Dr. Victoria Rose
"Every space that once promised safety has been turned to dust."
Dr. Ezzideen shehab
"I was operating all day, I'm a surgeon, and there was an attack on the intensive care unit."
Dr. Nick Maynard
"Eight paramedics and one doctor were killed in the previous three days."
Dr. Khamis Elessi
"I've seen more incinerated children than I've ever seen in my entire life combined. "
Dr. Mark Perlmutter
"To my shock, they hit inside the hospital’s compound."
Dr. Ali Tawil
"I didn't do much, I just held his hand and I wiped his head."
Dr. Mohammed Tahir
"Our anesthesiologist went to support the emergency room, and he discovered that his family were among the injured. He lost his nephew, and his daughters were injured."
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib
Amy Kit-Mei Low
"There is very little that you can do as a medical or humanitarian worker under such conditions."
Dr. James Smith
"Midwives offer a ray of hope amid horror, as harsh winter grips Gaza."
Nabila Masaoud
"In the first 20 minutes I personally pronounced probably between eight and twelve dead — all children, children and women."
Dr. Morgan McMonagle
"I can’t go to school anymore and I don’t get to see my friends."
Turkya Abu Krayyem
Dr. Bhavna Chawla
"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
"When they [...] try to make rescue or to do resuscitation [...] another bomb tank came, and it make a massacre there [...] nearly 18 person were killed, five from them journalists."
Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra
"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
"She asked me about her mother and father and sister, brothers, and I could not respond to her request"
Rajaa Musleh
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
"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
"The house collapsed on us."
Sara Yaqub Al-attar (patient)
"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
"To have one session of renal dialysis is considered as a privilege"
Dr. Khamis Elessi
Prof. Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Dr. Samah Jabr
"I don't understand how shooting children deliberately is justified."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"The situation is very, very bad. We need help. No one hears us."
Dr. Mohammed Obeid
"“You miss your colleagues,” he told me. “Some are killed; some have been arrested. And for what? For doing their jobs.” "
Dr. Clayton Dalton
"Adel treats hungry people, and he himself is hungry most of the time"
Dr. Ahmed Adel
"I didn’t know what to do. Do I yell or cry or carry my daughter? "
Dr. Mimi Syed
Dr. Tammy Abughnaim
Dr. Mark Perlmutter
Dr. Ayaz Pathan
Dr. Nabeel Rana
Dr. Mohammed Adeel Khaleel
Dr. Yassar Arain
Miranda Cleland
Charles Blaha
"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
"People feel that their humanity is not recognized. People feel that they're abandoned and left to the slaughter."
Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim
"Emergency in Shifa Hospital"
Dr. Marwan Abusada
"I just want the killing to stop, and I want these kids to grow up with a chance in the future."
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
"We are haunted by painful memories that are impossible to forget."
Faress Arafat
"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
"There was almost daily torture in the Israeli prisons"
Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya
"In an explosion when a blast goes off, everything around you gets weaponized."
Dr. Victoria Rose
"They treat the female prisoners in a brutal way"
Tasneem Al-Hams
"About 70% of the patients that we are seeing are women and children."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"Please, please stop this war against us"
Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi
"I'm not sure that we're going to be able to save her arm. "
Dr. Victoria Rose
"In the midst of this hell, we still dream of life."
Dr. Hussam Hammouda
"You can't get past these memories. "
Dr. Sanjay Adusumilli
Dr. Scarlett Wong
Dr. Modher Albeiruti
"A call for help to humanity and international organizations"
Dr. Mohammed Qandil
"This man was so traumatized, I honestly can't imagine him ever practicing medicine again."
Dr. Ben Thompson
"Doctors told me there was no other option. I agreed. And now my son lives with the consequences."
Dr. Sohaib Al Hams
Jihad Shalouf
Mahasin Mudallal
"I recall his vacant stare and his soft voice whispering into my ear. I wish I had died with them. "
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan
"They were all crying that their boy was able to walk again."
Abed El Hameed Qaradaya
"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
"I’m so sorry the world failed you, Zainab."
Dr. Ali Tahrawi
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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
"Forgive me mom, this is the path I chose – to help people – I swear I didn’t choose this path but to help people."
Munther Abed
Hassan Hosni Al-Hila
Rifaat Radwan
"I did not see a ceasefire."
Dr. Irfan Galaria
"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
"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
"Evacuating them means killing them."
Nebal Farsakh
Dr Fadel Naim
"The surgical repair was successful. She died because she had no nutrition."
Dr. Nick Maynard
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