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Tag: health/healthcare

Tents of a displacement camp in Gaza.

I gave birth during genocide, into a world I no longer know

Surviving the genocide in Gaza is the only life my child knows. I fight every day to keep him alive. 
Aya Nashwan
    A beautiful neighborhood as seen from above.

    The North of Gaza calls me back home

    I am one of those who evacuated to the south and returned to the north of Gaza, to Al-Rimal, where I remain.
    Dalia
      Workers filling an ambulence with fuel.

      300 days of war. Are we still alive?

      The work of first responders is especially dangerous in the Gaza Strip because Israel breaks the rules of warfare.
      Faress Arafat
        People sitting on chairs in the sand outside medical tent in Gaza.

        Gaza sets up health clinics to treat patients in a health crisis

        Makeshift medical hubs are insufficient to treat everyone with an injury, chronic condition, disease, or other ailment.
        Faress Arafat
          Gaza children with buckets at front of crowd around food distribution.

          From stethoscopes to survival

          Ahmad’s journey has taken him away from dreams of becoming a doctor to the reality of selling desserts for survival.
          Eman Alhaj Ali
            A crowd of people in the Al-Shifa Hospital emergency room.

            The aftermath of massacres

            The world has become accustomed to the mass killings in Gaza. But if you work in a hospital, each one is a nightmare.
            Faress Arafat
              Tent camp in Rafah, with strong sun.

              The artery of life has been severed

              With the Rafah Crossing closed, injured and sick patients — as well as families waiting to reunite — are losing hope.
              Faress Arafat
                About 40 people posing for group photo, from a medical school senior class.

                Graduation year vibes in Gaza

                Senior year of medical school ‘turned out to feel like an amputation of our aspirations.’
                Nada Almadhoun
                  Nurse in Gaza with red vest and facemask

                  Angels of mercy also feel

                  Hospital staff who heroically work to save lives are themselves not immune from death, injury, and trauma.
                  Faress Arafat
                    Sick woman with eyes closed.

                    ‘It’s like doctors are telling us to just watch her die and do nothing’

                    Thousands of cancer patients in besieged Gaza need but cannot get treatment. Here are three of their stories.
                    Shahd Safi
                      Surgical operation in Gaza during wartime.

                      My one dream: Put an end to these massacres

                      A volunteer doctor in Gaza deals with the traumas of her patients along with her own.
                      Nada Almadhoun
                        Swaddled baby

                        Giving birth during war: ‘I could hear my flesh ripping’

                        Women in Gaza are experiencing miscarriages, births without anesthesia, preterm deliveries, and neonatal deaths.
                        Eman Alhaj Ali