In the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis, a volunteer doctor breaks down as he speaks of the things he has seen during his mission here.It is impossible to get over the scenes of starving, shocked, and injured children, thoracic surgeon Ehab Massad says.
“The sight of a child standing at the door, bewildered because they have lost their entire family in a bombing, I could never forget that, ever,” he adds in a faltering voice as tears fill his eyes.
‘It will never feel like enough’
Massad is a member of a medical mission by the Rahma Worldwide organisation, one of four doctors working in Qatar to have joined.
“I feel like no matter what we do for [the people of Gaza], it will never feel like enough,” he says.
“[However] the helpless feeling of being outside Gaza and watching the news is gone now; at least I feel like I’m doing my part.”
It’s a feeling echoed by the three other doctors to whom Al Jazeera spoke. Orthopaedic surgeon Anas Hijjawi described a long line of doctors who had signed up for medical missions to Gaza, some of whom had to wait up to five m …
