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A cry for help to save Gaza’s healthcare system

The only thing that is still propping up Gaza’s hospitals is the sense of moral duty of the surviving medical workers.

a photo of two damaged buildings at Al Shifa Medical Complex

Israel wants us to evacuate al-Shifa Hospital again to kill hope

But we will persist as long as we can to keep this crucial lifeline for Palestinians in Gaza City going.

A photo of a woman in red scrubs in front of a burned out building

Gaza’s silent epidemic

Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita and has been rendered incapable of taking care of them.

epa11793286 Nine-year-old internally displaced Palestinian girl Heba Muhanna, who had her right leg amputated, sits on a bed at the Al Aqsa martyrs hospital in Deir al Balah, central Gaza Strip, 24 December 2024 (issued 25 December 2024). Heba fled with her family from the northern Gaza Strip to the south after October 2023. Following Israeli airstrikes on the Al Nusairat refugee camp on 12 December 2024, Heba lost her father as well as five uncles, and had her leg amputated. According to a December 2024 report by the UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA, Gaza currently has ‘the highest number of child amputees per capita anywhere in the world’.

Victory and defeat in Gaza

For 15 months, death did not defeat us.

A collage of a photo of a woman smiling and another photo of a glass of arabic coffee

No child should ever see the horrors of Gaza

As a nurse working in the disintegrating healthcare system, I have seen too many Palestinian children suffer.

The author conducting malnutrition monitoring in a displacement camp in Khan Younis in July 2024

Al-Shifa was a dream and a nightmare

The hospital was my dream workplace, but it turned into a place of death and despair.

a photo of a hospital building on a rainy day