Palestine, July 10 -- "This is the first time that I've had to tell my patients that I didn't have something that I knew was just a few miles away," says Dr. Aqsa Durrani is a pediatrician, epidemiologist, and board member of Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) USA. "And that is torture, to have to tell a mother who is begging for just a little bit more food for their children that we don't actually have it. But it's not because we don't have it. It's because it's being deliberately blocked from us."
Dr. Durrani recently returned from Gaza, where she helped treat the wounded at MSF's field hospital in Deir al-Balah from February 24 to April 24, 2025. There, she witnessed the immense suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, whe...