A South Bay doctor is home after getting stuck in Gaza. She knew the risks when she took on a volunteer medical mission to the war zone. But when the Rafah border was closed by Israel in mid-May she got stuck.
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It was her first time in a war zone, treating upwards of 40 patients a day, and with limited medical supplies, at the al-Aqsa Hospital in southern Gaza. She was only supposed to be gone two weeks to Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians have fled since the start of the war. But while she was there, the Israeli military invaded and closed the Rafah border. Sheikholeslami was stuck."Things just got worse. Medication ran out. There was no new medication coming in because of the closure of the Rafah border. It was kind of working with your hands tied behind your back," she says.
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