Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

Why aren't Palestinians the ones speaking for our cause?

I remember the silence of the woman brought into the hospital injured,

staring blankly and unable to speak.

She had given birth one week earlier.

She couldn't find her seven-day-old baby.

Both her baby and her toddler were trapped under the rubble.

There are no words that can adequately convey the pain and

depravity of this aggression.

There are no words. Why are we not there and able to speak?

The Palestinian people, the people in Gaza.

I want the whole world to know that I'm a human being.

At the end, I'm not pen on paper.

I'm not anonymous. I'm a human being created by God.

Times over the past decade,

most recently as part of emergency medical team working in a

hospital. Our Palestinian colleagues are not here today because the systems we

currently exist in don't recognize the value of Palestinian life.

Hundreds of healthcare workers have been held in Israeli captivity.

At least four have been killed while in detention.

Their bodies are still being held.

Every single healthcare worker I met in Gaza has lost family, has lost friends,

have, has lost, has lost colleagues.

Every single healthcare worker I met has been displaced multiple times, has been

forced out of the hospitals where they work.