I volunteered in Gaza as a doctor. The anger, guilt, and helplessness I continue to feel are unbearable.
It has been more than a month since a “ceasefire” took hold in Gaza. That, of course, does not mean that the killing of Palestinians has stopped. It simply means that it has been reduced to a rate that allows international media to ignore it.
And so, the world has largely moved on from the story. But I haven’t.
In July 2024, I joined a medical mission to Gaza and spent 22 days there, volunteering at hospitals. What I came back with is something I cannot easily explain.
The man my family knew, the son, brother, and husband they laughed with, the father who played with his children, feels lost to them now.
I call him the “previous Talal”.
My children, wife, siblings, parents, friends and colleagues, they all see the change.
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