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Dr. Muhammad Khil, a Texas-based surgeon, shared his experiences from his recent trip to Gaza with a humanitarian group. He described the devastation he witnessed at the Ali Hospital, highlighting the overwhelming number of blast injuries and amputations, and noted that the north of Gaza feels like a testing ground for advanced warfare. He reported treating mostly non-combatants, including many children and women, and expressed skepticism about claims that hospitals are being used as Hamas strongholds. The healthcare system is severely compromised, with limited supplies and food. Dr. Khil emphasized the dire situation, stating that many locals feel hopeless, yet some still cling to the hope that international attention could lead to change. He urged continued support and awareness for the humanitarian crisis.

A Gaza crisis unfolds behind hospital doors, and Dr. Muhammad Mustafa describes it with stark clarity. He treated patients in Gaza after October 7 and speaks from the UN context about advocacy. He argues that recognizing Palestine alone fails to address the humanitarian catastrophe, with a million children starving and a quarter of the population in stage 5 famine, where food relief must be matched by medical staffing and infrastructure. Inside Gaza's medical system, he calls it a 'first aid kit' lacking basics: burns treated with improvised dressings, 60–80 percent burns, no anesthesia, and skinning a child alive to change dressings. One hospital had three ventilators, no ICU, no MRI, and the lone CT scanner was in the north. Staff work 24-hour shifts amid collapse. Supply chains and borders worsen the crisis. Doctors buy medicines at local pharmacies when possible, yet patients cannot afford them; banks are destroyed; aid workers bring limited funds. Equipment is restricted, stethoscopes confiscated, and some doctors arrested for bringing baby formula. Mass casualty reality means CT scanners are overwhelmed and people die waiting; many doctors have hepatitis from dirty water. Beyond the hospital walls, he frames Gaza as a litmus test for international law and justice. Recognition without consequences risks a future where might trumps law. Gaza is a symbol in debates over ceasefire, aid access, and a hospital plan. He supports Doctors Against Genocide and plans to join lobbying on the hill, despite travel hurdles.

Dr. Aziz Raman describes a two‑week medical mission at Gaza’s last functioning hospital, Nasser Hospital. He explains he was selected through Rahma Worldwide from Milwaukee; twenty-two applicants competed, six were approved, 12 hours before departure. Travel involved Jordanian and Israeli checkpoints, turning a three‑hour link into a 14–16 hour journey. At the hospital, there were many international doctors; European General Hospital had been destroyed, forcing specialists to Nasser. He emphasizes Gaza’s scarce resources: medications, surgical equipment, blood, and ventilators, forcing difficult triage decisions. He is an interventional radiologist, the first IR to Gaza, using image-guided, minimally invasive procedures. The ER runs green, yellow, red zones and a black zone for those unlikely to survive. In MCIs, the red zone becomes the trauma hub. The daily caseload includes gunshot wounds to the head/neck, blast injuries, burns, and shrapnel. He recalls an MCI with brain matter and exposed intestines, and chaotic arrivals as families carry patients through double doors into care. Staff slept in an international doctors’ lounge; locals cooked for them, while news circulated via balcony view. He notes UN data: about 500 health workers killed, 1,000 injured, 300 in custody. A pediatric hospital director, Husam Abu Safia, was jailed since December and then disappeared. The toll is personal: he lost 15 pounds; a 30‑year‑old pregnant woman required emergent surgery to remove a bullet; a 15‑year‑old survived after a pericardial drain; a one‑year‑old with 85% burns died. He describes morgue scenes: families identify the dead; a gazebo near the ICU housed unclaimed bodies; grief is constant. Gazans express gratitude to outsiders who come to help; the reality, however, is that many feel unseen. He argues the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is militarized, with private security contractors and oversight by American and Israeli governments, bypassing UN channels. He mentions allegations of aid diversion by gangs like Abu Shabab, while others dispute that. He calls for flooding Gaza with aid and reasserts that UN aid routes should be restored to keep Hamas from leverage. He critiques international politics: a June 2025 UN Security Council permanent ceasefire resolution was vetoed by the United States, despite 14 of 15 members voting in favor. The conversation ends with acknowledgment of the humanity of Gazans, thanks to Theo, and a pledge to return if possible. Raman remembers a story of a smiling survivor, a reminder of personal moments of hope amid catastrophe, and emphasizes that the world must listen and that doctors and nurses deserve support to treat the uprooted population.