Survival Snapshot

Photos courtesy of @Nurse_Lana

A glimpse into the operating room where surgeons have to operate without gowns becuase of scarce recources.

A refugee camp packed with hundreds of tents filled with displaced Palestinians.

Men, women and children standing in line for their food and water rations.

A marked medical vehicle bombed while driving to save the lives of injured civilians.

Gazan children smiling and shaping their hands into hearts for the camera showcasing their strength to the world.

Palestinian woman enduring the pain of treatment to her leg without anesthesia.

Unsanitary units

Crowded Camps

Lengthy Lines

Annihilated Ambulance

Heartfelt hands

Survival Snapshots

Willful woman

"We ran out of burn cream, so we were putting like Vaseline. We didn't have any pain medicine or anesthesia either," Lana said. "We were running scarce on gloves. So sometimes we just had to wash our hands with gloves on."

"Sometimes other NGOs like the World Food Program were there when we were there," Lana said. "So whenever they were in the area and they would provide rice or whatever meal that they had they would bring us some and they'd always offer it to us."

"The patients were amazing," Lana said. "They were still so hospitable even though they didn't have food themselves. So, for example, they would always make us tea."

"We didn't have any surgical room gowns, so we started wearing the butcher's aprons, the plastic ones," Lana said. "It was not ideal. It was just to protect our clothes at that point. Nothing was sterile in the operating room setting."

"[Volunteering in Gaza] definitely motivated me to continue, and now I want to do way more and go everywhere that I can," Lana said. "It has lit a fire under my butt that has not been ignited really before last year."

"Cumulatively, we saw hundreds a day, maybe near 400 civilians," Lana said. "There were still more though, nearly a million displaced people in Rafah alone."