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


Hadeel Awad is a writer and a nurse based in Gaza. She used to work at Al Shifa hospital until it was raided by the Israeli army in November 2023.
The only thing that is still propping up Gaza’s hospitals is the sense of moral duty of the surviving medical workers.

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

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

For 15 months, death did not defeat us.

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

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