After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance. With news footage of him pale and shell-shocked reverberating around the world, he spoke of unfathomable horrors from lacerated bodies, to amputations without anesthetics, orphaned children with no surviving family, and deliberate targeting of medics and hospital facilities.  

This was Ghassan’s sixth and most vicious Gaza “war”.  Why does he do it?  Where does he find the strength to face it again and again? How does it impact his family? The answer lies simply in their shared passion: Palestine, a passion they articulate through their support of his perilous humanitarian work.