It was Friday night, October 20, 2023. The pain of October 7 burned in every part of my body, and running to the shelter with my baby and pregnant partner was still a daily occurrence. At Physicians for Human Rights Israel, the organization I head, we received an urgent phone call from Dr. Bashar Murad, director of Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza. He received an evacuation warning from the Israeli military ahead of an attack. The hospital served hundreds of thousands of residents and, at that the time, housed hundreds of patients and thousands of displaced people.
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