The US doctor who cannot forget what he saw in Gaza - BBC News

Dr Sam Attar found himself having to decide who could be saved, and who was beyond hope.

23 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage source, Sam AttarImage caption, Dr Attar has made three trips to Gaza since the war began and plans to go back againBy Fergal KeaneSpecial correspondent, JerusalemSam Attar reckons he left part of his soul in Gaza. It was the part of him that saw suffering and could not turn away. The part which now cannot forget.

You can be on the shores of Lake Michigan on an overcast spring day, the wind whipping up waves on the green water. And at the very same time you can be back there, in the heat and the dying.

It's been three weeks since he came home to Chicago but it might as well have been yesterday. The faces of that other world are with him: Jenna, the traumatised little girl wasting away, spectral pale on a hospital bed, while her mother shows Sam a phone video of the child's last birthday. Happy days before the disaster.

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Another mother whose 10-year-old son had just died.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68915529

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