Displacement, death, detention: Three fates facing Gaza’s doctors

More people could be killed by hunger and disease than by Israeli weapons

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are brought to Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Adel Han

Miriam Berger
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Even after four months of the most gruelling and gruesome work of his life, the anesthesiologist wanted to stay at his post at Nasser Hospital last month when the Israeli tanks closed in.

But doctors, he fretted, face one of three fates in wartime Gaza: displacement, detention or death.