“My heart breaks almost every day for the people there, what the innocent are going through,” said Sandy Adler, 65, whose team cared for hundreds of patients in Khan Yunis.
Men carry heavy items as they walk past damaged buildings in the area around Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 24Weeks after returning from a humanitarian mission in Gaza, Ross Valley nurse Sandy Adler is still aggrieved for the innocent, the injured, the maimed — the Palestinians who face starvation and death in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas terrorists.
From March 18 to April 1, she served alongside the Palestine Red Crescent Society, the equivalent of the Red Cross, and seven other humanitarian medical professionals within the fenced confines of an artificial turf soccer field treating a procession of injured and dying Palestinians.Nurse Sandy Adler joined a humanitarian medical team in Gaza to help injured Palestinians.
The war began after Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing around 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages. One of Adler’s colleagues, Dr. Hareen De Silva, a 38-year-old general practitioner from London, served as the “head of mission” — a role that required him to meet daily international agencies and humanitarian coordinators while working alongside Adler and the team.
The children, Adler said, often returned to the site with smiles on their faces and to practice English despite the lack of schools in the area. All the workers had for pain management was injectable ibuprofen. Others received ketamine in order to distort the pain, she said.
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