Hadeel Awad is a Palestinian nurse who graduated from Al-Azhar University. Since graduation, she aspired to work in Al-Shifa Medical Complex and in 2022, she started working as a volunteer in the emergency department.
“This is not the first war I have experienced while working,” she said, “but it is a different war. Since the beginning of my work and before as well, I have loved helping patients, but due to the many wars on Gaza, I began helping the wounded before and during the war as well.”
After being besieged for 40 days inside Al-Shifa Hospital while the Israeli army surrounded it, she reunited with her family in South Gaza, where they are now staying in a tent in Rafah. She has established a small medical clinic in the camp to help Palestinian refugees obtain medical assistance. “Now I aspire to make people’s voices heard through my writings and blogs.”
Current as of April 2024
Father, mother, brother, sister-in-law taken from him — Sa’aed Meqdad is no longer the same person he was before the war.
For cancer and leukemia patients in Gaza, the war has taken away the hope that medical treatments used to offer.
Hadeel has been forced to move multiple times, each time to a new camp, new tent, and new neighbors she does not know.
Heavy rain showers flooded our tents a few days ago, destroying what little we have, giving us a taste of what is to come.
‘What is more difficult than dismantling the tents and fleeing is the way people look at each other.’
Finding a way to celebrate, even for just a few moments, was a way to show children that they were cared for.
People with wheat allergy doubly suffer from the immense shortage of food in Gaza.
