we are not numbers

emerging writers from Palestine tell their stories and advocate for their human rights

Tag: health/healthcare

My group friendship of four men was torn apart by the war, but the surviving three remain in touch.
My beloved friend was deprived of her goal to serve Gaza as a nurse. Why, why?
My dream to become a prosthetics engineer has been delayed by Israel’s war on Gaza, but it has not been crushed.
At the hospital for treatment, Om Abdullah and her two daughters became trapped in Israel’s attack on the complex.
Two medical colleagues, my friends, were extraordinary professionals whose deaths create an overwhelming void.
For cancer and leukemia patients in Gaza, the war has taken away the hope that medical treatments used to offer.
My very sick child waits and waits for Israel to permit her to leave Gaza for the medical care she desperately needs.
Healthcare workers in Gaza fight against immense challenges to care for the injured.
Surviving the genocide in Gaza is the only life my child knows. I fight every day to keep him alive. 
I am one of those who evacuated to the south and returned to the north of Gaza, to Al-Rimal, where I remain.
The work of first responders is especially dangerous in the Gaza Strip because Israel breaks the rules of warfare.
Makeshift medical hubs are insufficient to treat everyone with an injury, chronic condition, disease, or other ailment.