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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 is very little that you can do as a medical or humanitarian worker under such conditions."
Dr. James Smith
"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
"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
"This explosion felt close. You could feel it. It's not unusual. We carried on as usual. We carried on working."
Rachael Moses
"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
"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
"This man was so traumatized, I honestly can't imagine him ever practicing medicine again."
Dr. Ben Thompson
"Her very last message was: "This is an emergency. The fungus is eating her face.""
Dr. Graeme Groom
"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
"My patients were six-year-olds with shrapnels in their heart and bullets in their brains, and pregnant women."
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
"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
"There were no cardiac surgeons at the hospital, so it fell to me to lead the operation."
Dr. Khaled Dawas
"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
"This girl, Jenna, loved dancing before she had an amputation and this is a life-changing injury"
Dr. Nada Al Hadithy
"There was virtually no formula feed to feed these newborn babies, all these infants."
Dr. Nick Maynard
"This is again an urgent plea to stop this and an urgent plea for help."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"They all came in dressed in their Id (holiday) clothing."
Dr. Razan al-Nahhas
"I don't know which of my colleagues I'll see again"
Dr. Ambereen Sleemi
"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
"The hemoglobin levels that are needed in order to donate blood safely are just not there. "
Anneliese Stephenson-Wenn
"I remember the anesthesia doctor on the phone begging the blood bank for blood."
Dr. Samer Attar
"In the first 20 minutes I personally pronounced probably between eight and twelve dead — all children, children and women."
Dr. Morgan McMonagle
"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
"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
"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 part of me just wanted him to die peacefully."
Dr. Sanjay Adusumilli
"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
"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
""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
"A bomb landed, his daughter was in the bathroom, and he went back to find her remains,"
Dr. Samer Attar
"Every day I saw babies die."
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"I'm there looking at these two children, wondering what did they do?"
Dr. Mohammed Tahir
"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
"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
"All of Gaza Needs Him"
Albina Abu Safiya
"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
"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
"Any kind of disability in Gaza is a death sentence."
Dr. Yasser Khan
"The house collapsed on us."
Sara Yaqub Al-attar (patient)
"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
"He's unable to cry. He has no muscle, because the muscle is being broken down for energy."
Adil Hussain
"The elderly was where my heart really sank."
Dr. Ana Jeelani
"Today we were for two hours searching for drinkable water. Even drinkable water is not available any more"
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib
"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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"Patients who suffer from cardiovascular disease, renal disease, they do not have their medicines."
Dr. Khamis Elessi
"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
"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
"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 have nightmares of what I witnessed when I sleep."
Munther Abed
"I find myself wanting to cry constantly, but I just don't have the time moving from one person to another."
Dr. Mark Brauner
"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
"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)
"There are no words to describe the situation in Kamal Adwan Hospital"
Dr. Mohammed Obeid
"I've seen more incinerated children than I've ever seen in my entire life combined. "
Dr. Mark Perlmutter
"The list is too long … and I will never see any of them again"
Dr. Hazem Maloh
"About 70% of the patients that we are seeing are women and children."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"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
"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
"“I hope, I hope we will survive,”"
Dr. Mohammed Saqr
Dr. Khamis Elessi
"The locals, when I talk to them, they're always very hopeful and strong and resilient."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"Anyone inside Sde Teiman at least once faced beating by batons, by fists, kicking, or even get bitten by the dogs."
Dr. Khaled Alser
"This kid was 6 years old."
Dr. Mark Perlmutter
"This is the only catheterization machine currently working in Gaza."
Dr. Wael Hijazi
"I did not see a ceasefire."
Dr. Irfan Galaria
"The operating rooms were full, and we had to leave the patients there suffering"
Dr. Hussam Hammouda
"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
"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
"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
"I have chosen to resist in a different way—through academic action."
Dr. Abdulwhhab Abu Alamrain
"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
"Of course, this was an attempt to pressure me and play with my mind"
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mousa
"The last thing I wanted to do was take his hope away. So I said, 'No, Inshallah, we're trying everything.'"
Dr. Irtaza Khan
"She asked me about her mother and father and sister, brothers, and I could not respond to her request"
Rajaa Musleh
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
"As it got closer to their release, they reported increasing levels of physical attacks and abuse."
Dr. Mihir Chaudhary
"A call for help to humanity and international organizations"
Dr. Mohammed Qandil
"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
"To have one session of renal dialysis is considered as a privilege"
Dr. Khamis Elessi
Prof. Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Dr. Samah Jabr
"Do we really call this a ceasefire?"
Dr. Morten Rostrup
"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
"I was operating all day, I'm a surgeon, and there was an attack on the intensive care unit."
Dr. Nick Maynard
"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
"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
"Midwives offer a ray of hope amid horror, as harsh winter grips Gaza."
Nabila Masaoud
"Their only crime was the fact that they were healing people."
Dr. Tammy Abughnaim
"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
"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
"Emergency in Shifa Hospital"
Dr. Marwan Abusada
"The situation is catastrophic. Really, I'm very tired. I'm very tired. "
Dr. James Smith
Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi
"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
"The kids I was watching had neck injuries."
Prof. Christos Georgalas
"To my shock, they hit inside the hospital’s compound."
Dr. Ali Tawil
"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
"We were treating our own people, children, mothers, classmates, and the number of injured weighs heavily on us."
Dr. Ezz Lulu
"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
"Enough is enough. We ask for a ceasefire. Stop killing."
Mohammad Hawajreh
"Now I understand why all of these children come into the emergency department shivering."
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan
Arwa Damon
"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
"I never thought I could see it get worse, but here I am. "
Dr. Mimi Syed
"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
"He had been injured as a result of an Israeli air strike. "
Dr. James Smith
"We are haunted by painful memories that are impossible to forget."
Faress Arafat
"Every single person I encountered was malnourished. "
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
"Every space that once promised safety has been turned to dust."
Dr. Ezzideen shehab
"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
"That night was not only their death — it was the death of something within me too"
Dr. Hussam Hammouda
"I recall his vacant stare and his soft voice whispering into my ear. I wish I had died with them. "
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan
"There was almost daily torture in the Israeli prisons"
Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya
"She was asking me to help her."
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
"A little while ago, one of the hospital's neighbors was targeted."
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
"You can’t confuse a two-year-old for a combatant."
Dr. Adam Hamawy
"He told me confess and we will stop torturing you."
Walid Khalili
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"Leaving to seek treatment for your child [...] versus leaving your family behind and knowing that you may never see them again."
Dr. Mohammed Tahir
"At hospital, I found medical staff on the floor naked handcuffed and blindfolded"
Dr. Ahmed Abu Sobha
"Despite everything that had happened to him, he was so keen to tell his story"
Dr Andrew Ferguson
"This Gaza doctor refused to abandon his patients. Israel tortured him to death"
Rozan al-Bursh
Dr. Khalid Hamoudeh
"If this were a movie set, you would tell whoever creates movie sets, it was too much, that it was exaggerated."
Dr. Melinda Brecknell
"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
"The surgical repair was successful. She died because she had no nutrition."
Dr. Nick Maynard
Disturbing Content
"Evacuating them means killing them."
Nebal Farsakh
Dr Fadel Naim
"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
"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
"Another day of devastation here in Gaza. "
Dr. Tom Potokar
"Gazan doctors plead for help in saving premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital"
Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati
Dr. Shirin Nuʿman ʿAbid
"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
"Mom, can we leave Gaza now? I really just want to live."
Dr. Ruba
"The staff are continuing to turn up to work. They are hungry. They are fainting on the job"
Dr. Saira Hussain
"I feel unbearably helpless before my dying patients. Countless times, I’ve failed to piece together the shattered bodies of children."
Dr. Ali Tahrawi
"The surgeon across from me just, a very stoic, unemotional, strong, resilient surgeon just broke down in tears."
Dr. Samer Attar
"Please, please stop this war against us"
Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi
"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
"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
"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
"He arrived home to find every place he had returned to in his memories had been obliterated."
Dr. Ahmad muhanna
" 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
"We are looking for my sister's son. Every day I go with her to try to identify the body."
Anonymous doctor
"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
"Two days of horror. We are in a besieged Nasser hospital"
Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi
"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
"This 13-year-old, wait for operation and see that I amputate the mid-foot of her brother"
Dr. Mohammed Obeid
"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
"Gazan doctor struggles to save lives amid exhaustion, loss, and horrors of war"
Dr. Sohaib Al Hams
"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
"Why is daddy bleeding? He’s the one who saves others."
Dr. Sohaib Safi
"I could still feel her arms around my neck."
Dr. Ahmad Yousaf
"The majority of them have been taken from their place of work while working to try and save patients. So that includes people who’ve been taken from their ambulance, during their work, or from hospitals."
Dr. Ahmad muhanna
Maha Wafi
""They're hungry, they have no medication and they have no safe place""
Dr. Mimi Syed
"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 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’m not just sad at what is happening here for Palestinians. I’m really sad at Israelis themselves."
Dr. Mohammed Saqr
"In the explosions the children would either get burnt, or shrapnel."
Dr. Victoria Rose
"And Hunger Was Given Dominion over Us"
Dr. Ezzideen Shehab
"I'm not sure that we're going to be able to save her arm. "
Dr. Victoria Rose
"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
"I didn't do much, I just held his hand and I wiped his head."
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
"There are children who I met also, who had lost all their families."
Dr. Khaled Dawas
"I never thought that this would actually be happening in a hospital."
Dr. Sara Al-Saqqa
"These kids are tiny, they are underweight and malnourished."
Dr. Victoria Rose
"I have suffered a lot of punishment and beating from the soldiers there without any charge."
Dr. Khaled Alser
"Mothers can't even breastfeed because they are so malnourished."
Dr. Nick Maynard
"Adel treats hungry people, and he himself is hungry most of the time"
Dr. Ahmed Adel
"There's no triage, people are grabbing your shoulder left and right, please see my daughter, please see my mum."
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
"They look at me with eyes that ask for comfort, not medicine."
Dr. Ahmed Seyam
"“You miss your colleagues,” he told me. “Some are killed; some have been arrested. And for what? For doing their jobs.” "
Dr. Clayton Dalton
"It is unthinkable to lose nine of your ten children"
Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra
"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
"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
"I don't understand how shooting children deliberately is justified."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"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
"Beyond dystopian. This is the most horrific thing that most of us have ever witnessed or followed in our lifetimes. "
Dr. James Smith
"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
"You can't get past these memories. "
Dr. Sanjay Adusumilli
Dr. Scarlett Wong
Dr. Modher Albeiruti
"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
"People feel that their humanity is not recognized. People feel that they're abandoned and left to the slaughter."
Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim
"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
"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
"I can't leave if you're shooting at me."
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib
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"There were children with 70% to 80% body burns."
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
Dr. Razan al-Nahhas
"We had dreams"
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib
"I thought, when will this end?"
Dr. Mohammed Tahir
"They're attacking kids, they're attacking families, they're attacking innocent people."
Mohammad Hawajreh
""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
"We are working with the patients under mobile light only. We cannot save more lives."
Dr. Mohammed Qandil
"Literally every day I was there, I saw a child shot in the head. "
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
Dr. Tammy Abughnaim
"I’m so sorry the world failed you, Zainab."
Dr. Ali Tahrawi
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"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
"We are in a system collapse"
Dr. Yousef
"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
"They were all crying that their boy was able to walk again."
Abed El Hameed Qaradaya
"The scale of violence directed at Gaza’s civilians is unlike anything any of us has ever seen."
152 American Medical Professionals
"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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"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
"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
"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
"In the midst of this hell, we still dream of life."
Dr. Hussam Hammouda
"Here in Gaza, there are no pacemakers available at all."
Dr. Tarek Loubani
Dr. Zishan Siddiqui
Dr. Habib Rahman
"I struggle every day to find a meal, that’s my objective. I need calories to be able to move, to work."
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib
"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
"They arrested all the medical team who remained at Nasser Hospital. We don’t know the fate of my colleagues."
Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi
Dr. Khaled Alser
Dr. Osaid Alser
"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
"The situation is very, very bad. We need help. No one hears us."
Dr. Mohammed Obeid
"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
"They treat the female prisoners in a brutal way"
Tasneem Al-Hams
"In an explosion when a blast goes off, everything around you gets weaponized."
Dr. Victoria Rose
"The hospitals were targeted from the beginning."
Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati
"I just want the killing to stop, and I want these kids to grow up with a chance in the future."
Dr. Mohammed Mostafa
"Childbirth isn’t a joyous welcoming of new life any more."
Nour Mwanis
"They end up drinking this water that's actually just meant for like washing and such."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"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
"Trying to explain to a little boy that you are using a saw to cut through his bone."
Dr. Abdullah Ghali
"This is the war of hunger, the war of slow death."
Dr. Ezzideen shehab
"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
Dr. Thaer Ahmad
"Up until now we have recorded 11 infants who died due to hypothermia"
Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra
"These are not conditions for living."
Dr. Mimi Syed
"I prayed to our Lord to help me and save both the mother and the child."
Dr. Sara Al-Saqqa
"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
"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 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
"ֵEveryone was praying to God that none of their relatives would be present among the dead and the injured."
Dr. Mohammed Qishta
"Just imagine the healthcare workers doing these procedures without anesthetic"
Dr. Mhoira Leng
"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
"You feel a huge responsibility to go back and do something. "
Dr. Victoria Rose
"He walks through a wounded city searching for bandages so that doctors can treat his son."
Dr. Ezzideen shehab
"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
"I can’t go to school anymore and I don’t get to see my friends."
Turkya Abu Krayyem
Dr. Bhavna Chawla
"What I see every day are people who are extremely thin. They have lost all their muscle mass. "
Dr. Milena Angelova-Chee
"Eight paramedics and one doctor were killed in the previous three days."
Dr. Khamis Elessi
"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
"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
"We're giving them Ibuprofen for an arm that's been blown off."
Monica Johnson
"If images of torn and broken children are not enough to stop this madness, then what is?"
Dr. Ali Tahrawi
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