Motherhood Stolen and the Price of Denied Care in Gaza – A Doctor’s Testimony

By Dr. Mimi Syed

This mother would never see her children grow up, never watch her daughter graduate from college, or her son become a man. The injustice of it all burned within me, a fire that would never be extinguished.

The emergency department at Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al Balah was in chaos, a familiar scene during my second medical mission in Gaza. The…