"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 Aug 2026

"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

"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

rajaa musleh

"You can’t confuse a two-year-old for a combatant."

Dr. Adam Hamawy

USA May 2024

""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 Mar - Apr 2025

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA

"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

"The scale of violence directed at Gaza’s civilians is unlike anything any of us has ever seen."

152 American Medical Professionals

"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

"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

"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 - Jun 2025

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK

Dr. Graeme Groom

UK

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

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug 2026

"The surgical repair was successful. She died because she had no nutrition."

Dr. Nick Maynard

UK Dec. 2023-July 2025
Disturbing Content

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

Dr. Mark Perlmutter

USA Mar - Apr 2024

"Their only crime was the fact that they were healing people."

Dr. Tammy Abughnaim

USA Jul - Aug 2024

"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 Aug 2026

"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 - Jun 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 - Mar 2025

"I'm not sure that we're going to be able to save her arm. "

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK May - Jun 2025

"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

"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

"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

USA Nov 2025

"Despite everything that had happened to him, he was so keen to tell his story"

Dr Andrew Ferguson

UK Dec 2023 - Jan 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

"I didn’t know what to do. Do I yell or cry or carry my daughter? "

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

Miranda Cleland

Charles Blaha

"This man was so traumatized, I honestly can't imagine him ever practicing medicine again."

Dr. Ben Thompson

Canada Aug 2026

"There were no cardiac surgeons at the hospital, so it fell to me to lead the operation."

Dr. Khaled Dawas

UK Aug 2026

"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

UK Aug - Sep 2024

"There is very little that you can do as a medical or humanitarian worker under such conditions."

Dr. James Smith

UK Apr - Jun 2024

"I'm there looking at these two children, wondering what did they do?"

Dr. Mohammed Tahir

UK Jun 2024 - Feb 2025

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

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK May - Jun 2025

"Patients who suffer from cardiovascular disease, renal disease, they do not have their medicines."

Dr. Khamis Elessi

Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, Al Ahli Baptist Hospital

"Beyond dystopian. This is the most horrific thing that most of us have ever witnessed or followed in our lifetimes. "

Dr. James Smith

UK Apr - Jul 2024

"Eight paramedics and one doctor were killed in the previous three days."

Dr. Khamis Elessi

Gaza City, Al Ahli Baptist Hospital and more

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

Dr. Yasser Khan

Canada Dec 2023

"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

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

Dr. Nick Maynard

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

Dr. Issam Abu Ajwa

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

Prof. Ghassan Abu-Sittah

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

Dr. Bassam Miqdad

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

Dr. Khaled Alser

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

Dr. Mahmoud Abu Shehada

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

Dr. Ahmad muhanna

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more
Disturbing Content

"I don't understand how shooting children deliberately is justified."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Dec 2024

"They arrested all the medical team who remained at Nasser Hospital. We don’t know the fate of my colleagues."

Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi

The European Hospital, South Gaza and more

Dr. Khaled Alser

The European Hospital, South Gaza and more

Dr. Osaid Alser

The European Hospital, South Gaza and more

"These are not conditions for living."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug 2026

"We had dreams"

Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib

Rafah, Gaza City and more

"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 - Mar 2025

"As doctors, the people need all of us, and my love for them was what always motivated me to continue."

Dr. Khalid Abu-Habel

Al-Aqsa Hospital, Gaza City and more

Dr. Tarneem Mahmoud

Al-Aqsa Hospital, Gaza City and more

Dr. Mahitab Ahmed

Al-Aqsa Hospital, Gaza City and more

Dr. Islam Al-Jourani

Al-Aqsa Hospital, Gaza City and more

"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

Canada Jan. 2025 - Dec. 2025

"Evacuating them means killing them."

Nebal Farsakh

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Al Quds Hospital

Dr Fadel Naim

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Al Quds Hospital

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

Dr. Nick Maynard

UK Jul 2025

"Two days of horror. We are in a besieged Nasser hospital"

Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi

Nasser Hospital

"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 Mar - Apr 2025

"There was almost daily torture in the Israeli prisons"

Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya

Al-Shifa Hospital, Israeli Prison

"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

USA Jun 2024

"It’s not a coincidence, they mean to attack the houses of the people who can treat the wounded people."

Dr. Khaled Alser

Nasser Hospital, The Indonesian Hospital and more

Dr. Khalid Hamoudeh

Nasser Hospital, The Indonesian Hospital and more

Dr. Osaid Alser

Nasser Hospital, The Indonesian Hospital and more

Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi

Nasser Hospital, The Indonesian Hospital and more

Ahmed Abu Aqel

Nasser Hospital, The Indonesian Hospital and more

"I thought, when will this end?"

Dr. Mohammed Tahir

UK Jun - Aug 2024

"They took the employees, one by one, for investigation."

Dr. Ahmad al-Kahlout

Kamal Adwan Hospital, Beit Lahiya

"I remember the anesthesia doctor on the phone begging the blood bank for blood."

Dr. Samer Attar

USA

"A little while ago, one of the hospital's neighbors was targeted."

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

Beit Lahiya, Kamal Adwan Hospital and more

"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

"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

Al-Awda Hospital, Sde Teiman Detention Center and more

Dr. Mohammed Abu Mousa

Al-Awda Hospital, Sde Teiman Detention Center and more

"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 Dec 2024

"She asked me about her mother and father and sister, brothers, and I could not respond to her request"

Rajaa Musleh

Al Mawasi, Al-Shifa Hospital

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

Al Mawasi, Al-Shifa Hospital

"A part of me just wanted him to die peacefully."

Dr. Sanjay Adusumilli

Australia Aug 2026

"He's unable to cry. He has no muscle, because the muscle is being broken down for energy."

Adil Hussain

Nasser Hospital

"She was asking me to help her."

Dr. Mohammed Mostafa

Australia Aug 2026

"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

Nasser Hospital

Amy Kit-Mei Low

Nasser Hospital

"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 Jun - Jul 2024

"To my shock, they hit inside the hospital’s compound."

Dr. Ali Tawil

Al-Aqsa Hospital, Deir al Balah

"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

Ireland Feb - Mar 2025

"He arrived home to find every place he had returned to in his memories had been obliterated."

Dr. Ahmad muhanna

Sde Teiman Detention Center, Al-Awda Hospital

""They're hungry, they have no medication and they have no safe place""

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Dec 2024

"Mom, can we leave Gaza now? I really just want to live."

Dr. Ruba

Beit Hanoun, Nasser Hospital and more

"The elderly was where my heart really sank."

Dr. Ana Jeelani

UK Oct 2024

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

Dr. Ali Tahrawi

Al-Aqsa Hospital
Disturbing Content

"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 Aug 2026

"In the midst of this hell, we still dream of life."

Dr. Hussam Hammouda

Nasser Hospital

"Just imagine the healthcare workers doing these procedures without anesthetic"

Dr. Mhoira Leng

UK Mar - Apr 2024

"Midwives offer a ray of hope amid horror, as harsh winter grips Gaza."

Nabila Masaoud

Gaza Strip, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

"Trying to explain to a little boy that you are using a saw to cut through his bone."

Dr. Abdullah Ghali

USA Apr 2024

"I can’t go to school anymore and I don’t get to see my friends."

Turkya Abu Krayyem

Rafah, Red Cross Field Hospital and more

Dr. Bhavna Chawla

Rafah, Red Cross Field Hospital and more

"Literally every day I was there, I saw a child shot in the head. "

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA March - Apr. 2024

Dr. Tammy Abughnaim

USA July - Aug. 2024

"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

South Gaza, Al Mawasi

"Here in Gaza, there are no pacemakers available at all."

Dr. Tarek Loubani

Canada Feb. 2026

Dr. Zishan Siddiqui

Canada Feb. 2026

Dr. Habib Rahman

UK Feb. 2026

"I feel unbearably helpless before my dying patients. Countless times, I’ve failed to piece together the shattered bodies of children."

Dr. Ali Tahrawi

Nasser Hospital

"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

USA Feb - Apr 2025

"Please, please stop this war against us"

Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi

Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis and more

"I don't know which of my colleagues I'll see again"

Dr. Ambereen Sleemi

USA Jul 2025

"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

Tel al-Sultan refugee camp

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

Dr. Saira Hussain

Australia Aug 2026

"It is unthinkable to lose nine of your ten children"

Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra

Nasser Hospital

"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

USA Dec 2025

"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

Jabaliya

"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 Jan - Feb 2024

"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

Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis

"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

USA Jun 2025
Disturbing Content

"Doctors told me there was no other option. I agreed. And now my son lives with the consequences."

Dr. Sohaib Al Hams

Khan Younis

Jihad Shalouf

Khan Younis

Mahasin Mudallal

Khan Younis

"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 Aug 2026

"They look at me with eyes that ask for comfort, not medicine."

Dr. Ahmed Seyam

Nasser Hospital

"Her very last message was: "This is an emergency. The fungus is eating her face.""

Dr. Graeme Groom

UK May 2025

"They were all crying that their boy was able to walk again."

Abed El Hameed Qaradaya

Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis and more

"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

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

Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra

Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis and more

"Do we really call this a ceasefire?"

Dr. Morten Rostrup

Norway Oct 2025

"The house collapsed on us."

Sara Yaqub Al-attar (patient)

The Indonesian Hospital, Wafaa Medical Rehabilitation and Specialized Surgery Hospital

"People feel that their humanity is not recognized. People feel that they're abandoned and left to the slaughter."

Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim

UK Aug 2026

"At hospital, I found medical staff on the floor naked handcuffed and blindfolded"

Dr. Ahmed Abu Sobha

Nasser Hospital

"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 Jun 2025

"Why is daddy bleeding? He’s the one who saves others."

Dr. Sohaib Safi

"I just want the killing to stop, and I want these kids to grow up with a chance in the future."

Dr. Mohammed Mostafa

Australia Aug 2026

"The operating rooms were full, and we had to leave the patients there suffering"

Dr. Hussam Hammouda

The Indonesian Hospital

"The kids I was watching had neck injuries."

Prof. Christos Georgalas

Greece Apr - May 2025

"After not being able to bear the pain anymore, I admitted to all the accusations"

Walid Khalili

Rafah Crossing, Kerem Shalom Crossing and more

"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

"He told me confess and we will stop torturing you."

Walid Khalili

Sde Teiman Detention Center, Gaza City and more
Disturbing Content

"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 Aug 2026

"They treat the female prisoners in a brutal way"

Tasneem Al-Hams

"“You miss your colleagues,” he told me. “Some are killed; some have been arrested. And for what? For doing their jobs.” "

Dr. Clayton Dalton

USA Jan. 2025 - Feb. 2025

"That night was not only their death — it was the death of something within me too"

Dr. Hussam Hammouda

North Gaza

"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 Jul 2025

Dr. Ambereen Sleemi

"I have nightmares of what I witnessed when I sleep."

Munther Abed

Rafah

"My patients were six-year-olds with shrapnels in their heart and bullets in their brains, and pregnant women."

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA Mar - Apr 2025

"I’m so sorry the world failed you, Zainab."

Dr. Ali Tahrawi

Al-Aqsa Hospital
Disturbing Content

"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 Mar 2024

"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

Rafah

Hassan Hosni Al-Hila

Rafah

Rifaat Radwan

Rafah

"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 Jul - Sep 2025

"We are haunted by painful memories that are impossible to forget."

Faress Arafat

Al-Shifa Hospital, Rafah and more

"There are children who I met also, who had lost all their families."

Dr. Khaled Dawas

UK Aug 2026

"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

The European Hospital, Rafah

"There were children with 70% to 80% body burns."

Dr. Mohammed Mostafa

Australia Aug 2026

Dr. Razan al-Nahhas

USA

"I never thought that this would actually be happening in a hospital."

Dr. Sara Al-Saqqa

Nasser Hospital

"The last thing I wanted to do was take his hope away. So I said, 'No, Inshallah, we're trying everything.'"

Dr. Irtaza Khan

USA/Pakistan Oct 2025

"We were treating our own people, children, mothers, classmates, and the number of injured weighs heavily on us."

Dr. Ezz Lulu

Al-Shifa Hospital, Al Ahli Baptist Hospital

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

Dr. James Smith

UK Dec 2023 - Jan 2024

Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi

"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

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital

"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 Jun - Jul 2024

"This Gaza doctor refused to abandon his patients. Israel tortured him to death"

Rozan al-Bursh

The Indonesian Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

Dr. Khalid Hamoudeh

The Indonesian Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

"If this were a movie set, you would tell whoever creates movie sets, it was too much, that it was exaggerated."

Dr. Melinda Brecknell

Canada Oct. 2025

"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

Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis

"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

"Every space that once promised safety has been turned to dust."

Dr. Ezzideen shehab

The Indonesian Hospital, North Gaza and more

"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

"I have chosen to resist in a different way—through academic action."

Dr. Abdulwhhab Abu Alamrain

Al-Aqsa Hospital

"Every day I saw babies die."

99 American Medical Professionals

"Today we were for two hours searching for drinkable water. Even drinkable water is not available any more"

Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib

Al-Shifa Hospital

"Mothers can't even breastfeed because they are so malnourished."

Dr. Nick Maynard

UK Aug 2026

"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

Al-Shifa Hospital, Rafah

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

Dr. Mohammed Mostafa

Australia Aug 2026

"A call for help to humanity and international organizations"

Dr. Mohammed Qandil

Nasser Hospital

"What I see every day are people who are extremely thin. They have lost all their muscle mass. "

Dr. Milena Angelova-Chee

Bulgaria Aug 2026

"Enough is enough. We ask for a ceasefire. Stop killing."

Mohammad Hawajreh

Al-Shifa Hospital

"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

"we need to be strong and focus on saving lives"

Dr. Ahmad abu yassin

"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 Aug 2026

"Gazan doctor struggles to save lives amid exhaustion, loss, and horrors of war"

Dr. Sohaib Al Hams

Khan Younis, Rafah

"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

Aug 2025

"Of course, this was an attempt to pressure me and play with my mind"

Dr. Mohammed Abu Mousa

Sde Teiman Detention Center

"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 Jun - Jul 2024

"The hospitals were targeted from the beginning."

Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati

Al-Shifa Hospital, Al Ahli Baptist Hospital

"This kid was 6 years old."

Dr. Mark Perlmutter

USA Mar 2025

"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

Nasser Hospital, Al Azhar University

"This is again an urgent plea to stop this and an urgent plea for help."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug 2026

"I can't leave if you're shooting at me."

Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib

Al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital and more

Anonymous doctor

Al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital and more

"These kids are tiny, they are underweight and malnourished."

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK May - Jun 2025

"The list is too long … and I will never see any of them again"

Dr. Hazem Maloh

Nuseirat Refugee Camp, Deir al Balah

"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

"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

North Gaza, Al-Awda Hospital and more

"This girl, Jenna, loved dancing before she had an amputation and this is a life-changing injury"

Dr. Nada Al Hadithy

UK Aug 2026

"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

Sde Teiman Detention Center, North Gaza and more

Maha Wafi

Sde Teiman Detention Center, North Gaza and more

"I could still feel her arms around my neck."

Dr. Ahmad Yousaf

USA Jun - Jul 2024

"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

Sde Teiman Detention Center, Kamal Adwan Hospital and more

Dr. Osama Tushtash

Sde Teiman Detention Center, Kamal Adwan Hospital and more

Dr. iyad Abed

Sde Teiman Detention Center, Kamal Adwan Hospital and more

Khader Abu Nada

Sde Teiman Detention Center, Kamal Adwan Hospital and more

Walid Khalili

Sde Teiman Detention Center, Kamal Adwan Hospital and more

"We have normalized a situation in which it's normal to kill doctors."

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA March - Apr. 2024

"We are working with the patients under mobile light only. We cannot save more lives."

Dr. Mohammed Qandil

Nasser Hospital

"Her father was there, crying and asking me, ‘Can you save her? She’s my only child.’"

Dr. Fozia Alvi

Canada Aug 2026

Dr. Irfan Galaria

USA

Dr. Thaer Ahmad

USA

Dr. Vanita Gupta

USA

Dr. Osaid Alser

USA

Prof. Ghassan Abu-Sittah

UK

Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi

"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

Central Gaza Strip

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

Dr. Mihir Chaudhary

USA Sept.-Oct.

"Emergency in Shifa Hospital"

Dr. Marwan Abusada

Al-Shifa Hospital

"A bomb landed, his daughter was in the bathroom, and he went back to find her remains,"

Dr. Samer Attar

USA Apr 2025

"All of Gaza Needs Him"

Albina Abu Safiya

The Indonesian Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital and more

"In the first 20 minutes I personally pronounced probably between eight and twelve dead — all children, children and women."

Dr. Morgan McMonagle

Ireland Feb.-March 2025

"I prayed to our Lord to help me and save both the mother and the child."

Dr. Sara Al-Saqqa

Al-Shifa Hospital, Rafah

"Leaving to seek treatment for your child [...] versus leaving your family behind and knowing that you may never see them again."

Dr. Mohammed Tahir

UK Jun 2024 - Feb 2025

"We are in a system collapse"

Dr. Yousef

Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City

"They all came in dressed in their Id (holiday) clothing."

Dr. Razan al-Nahhas

USA Feb - Mar 2025

"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

Beit Lahiya, Jabaliya Camp and more

"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

"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

Kamal Adwan Hospital

"Another day of devastation here in Gaza. "

Dr. Tom Potokar

UK Aug 2026

"I’m not just sad at what is happening here for Palestinians. I’m really sad at Israelis themselves."

Dr. Mohammed Saqr

Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis

"The Israelis shot a GPS-guided bomb on the house where a British charity medical team was staying. "

Dr. Amer Shoaib

UK Jan 2024

"This 13-year-old, wait for operation and see that I amputate the mid-foot of her brother"

Dr. Mohammed Obeid

Al-Shifa Hospital

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

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK Aug 2024

"He walks through a wounded city searching for bandages so that doctors can treat his son."

Dr. Ezzideen shehab

The Indonesian Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital

"Every single person I encountered was malnourished. "

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

USA Mar - Apr 2024

"I have suffered a lot of punishment and beating from the soldiers there without any charge."

Dr. Khaled Alser

Nasser Hospital, Sde Teiman Detention Center and more

" 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 Aug 2026

"There are no words to describe the situation in Kamal Adwan Hospital"

Dr. Mohammed Obeid

Kamal Adwan Hospital

"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

Austalia May 2024

"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

South Gaza, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

"I didn't do much, I just held his hand and I wiped his head."

Dr. Mohammed Tahir

UK Sep 2024 - Feb 2025

"ֵEveryone was praying to God that none of their relatives would be present among the dead and the injured."

Dr. Mohammed Qishta

Nasser Hospital

"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

USA Jan. 2025 - Feb. 2025

"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

"The hemoglobin levels that are needed in order to donate blood safely are just not there. "

Anneliese Stephenson-Wenn

USA Aug - Sep 2025

"We go out searching for test strips and insulin, but they're nowhere to be found."

Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra

Nasser Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital and more

Dr. Wael Hijazi

Nasser Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital and more

Anneliese Stephenson-Wenn

Nasser Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital and more

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

Dr. Samer Attar

USA Jun 2024

"The situation is very, very bad. We need help. No one hears us."

Dr. Mohammed Obeid

Al-Shifa Hospital

"She reminded me of my own daughter."

Dr. Yipeng Ge

Canada Aug 2026

Dr. Yara Abou-Hamde

Canada

Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo

Canada

Dr. Rizwan Minhas

Canada

Dr. Ben Thompson

Canada

Dr. Noor Ul Amin

Canada

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

Dr. Khamis Elessi

Al-Shifa Hospital, Al Ahli Baptist Hospital

Prof. Ghassan Abu-Sittah

Al-Shifa Hospital, Al Ahli Baptist Hospital

Dr. Samah Jabr

Al-Shifa Hospital, Al Ahli Baptist Hospital

"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 Aug 2026

"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

Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, Rafah Crossing and more

"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 Aug 2026

"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

Al-Amal Hospital

"I never thought I could see it get worse, but here I am. "

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug 2026

"Anyone inside Sde Teiman at least once faced beating by batons, by fists, kicking, or even get bitten by the dogs."

Dr. Khaled Alser

Kamal Adwan Hospital, Nasser Hospital and more

"I was operating all day, I'm a surgeon, and there was an attack on the intensive care unit."

Dr. Nick Maynard

UK Dec 2023

"Childbirth isn’t a joyous welcoming of new life any more."

Nour Mwanis

Al-Awda Hospital, Nuseirat Refugee Camp

"You can't get past these memories. "

Dr. Sanjay Adusumilli

Australia Aug 2026

Dr. Scarlett Wong

Australia

Dr. Modher Albeiruti

Australia

"Adel treats hungry people, and he himself is hungry most of the time"

Dr. Ahmed Adel

Nasser Hospital, Al Aqsa University and more

"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

UK Jun 2024 - Feb 2025

"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

Gaza City

"About 70% of the patients that we are seeing are women and children."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Dec 2024

"This is the only catheterization machine currently working in Gaza."

Dr. Wael Hijazi

Gaza City, Al Quds Hospital

"He had been injured as a result of an Israeli air strike. "

Dr. James Smith

UK Apr - Jun 2024

"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

Al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Awda Hospital and more

"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 Aug 2025

"This is the war of hunger, the war of slow death."

Dr. Ezzideen shehab

Gaza Strip, Jabaliya

"I did not see a ceasefire."

Dr. Irfan Galaria

USA Nov 2025

"They're attacking kids, they're attacking families, they're attacking innocent people."

Mohammad Hawajreh

Al-Shifa Hospital, North Gaza

""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 Aug 2026

"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

Deir al Balah, Nuseirat Refugee Camp and more

"In an explosion when a blast goes off, everything around you gets weaponized."

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK Aug 2024

"“I hope, I hope we will survive,”"

Dr. Mohammed Saqr

Nasser Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

Dr. Khamis Elessi

Nasser Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

"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 Aug 2026

"Gazan doctors plead for help in saving premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital"

Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati

Al-Shifa Hospital

Dr. Shirin Nuʿman ʿAbid

Al-Shifa Hospital

"They end up drinking this water that's actually just meant for like washing and such."

Dr. Mimi Syed

USA Aug 2026

"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

Al-Shifa Hospital, North Gaza and more

Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya

Al-Shifa Hospital, North Gaza and more

"We're giving them Ibuprofen for an arm that's been blown off."

Monica Johnson

USA Aug 2026

"We are looking for my sister's son. Every day I go with her to try to identify the body."

Anonymous doctor

Nasser Hospital

"Now I understand why all of these children come into the emergency department shivering."

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan

Canada Feb - Mar 2025

Arwa Damon

USA/Syria

"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

Al Azhar University, Al-Shifa Hospital and more

"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 Jul 2025

"And Hunger Was Given Dominion over Us"

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

Canada Aug 2026

Dr. Thaer Ahmad

USA

"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

Al-Aqsa Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital and more

Dr. Yousef Al-Akkad

Al-Aqsa Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital and more

Dr. Reda Abu Assi

Al-Aqsa Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital and more

"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 - Jun 2025

Dr. Victoria Rose

UK