Letter to President Trump

The Honorable Donald J. Trump
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, DC
United States of America

October 1, 2025

Dear President Trump,

We are 152 American physicians, surgeons, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and midwives who have volunteered in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. Many of us have served on multiple deployments. Collectively, we spent more than 460 weeks volunteering in 22 of Gaza’s built and field hospitals, including all of Gaza’s largest hospitals. Our backgrounds include public health and humanitarian service in the world’s worst conflict zones, including Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Liberia, Chad, Yemen, Sudan, South Sudan, and Democratic Republic of Congo. We are civilians, veterans, and reservists, a multifaith and multiethnic group including Christians, Muslims, Jews, and others. None of us support the horrors committed on October 7, 2023, by Palestinian armed groups and individuals in Israel.

We are among the very few neutral American observers that Israel has permitted to enter Gaza for nearly two years. Given our broad expertise and direct experience working throughout Gaza, we are uniquely qualified to comment on several matters of importance to our government regarding American support for Israel’s ongoing attack on the Gaza Strip. We believe it is imperative that the United States immediately end its military, economic, and diplomatic support for the ongoing destruction of Gaza, and support an international arms embargo on all warring parties. This is the right thing to do, and we believe it is required under both American and international law.

Mass Violence Against Civilians

The scale of violence directed at Gaza’s civilians is unlike anything any of us has ever seen. Half of Gaza’s population is children, and we routinely treated them for every possible type of injury: 100% total body surface area burns, dismemberment, gunshots to the head and chest, evisceration, and even traumatic hemicorporectomy and decapitation. We have even seen these injuries in fetuses, whose mothers’ bodies could not protect their unborn children from the American-made bombs dropped on them by Israeli forces. Most of us saw pre-teen children shot in the head or chest on a regular basis, often multiple times per day.

President Trump, we wish you could see the nightmares that plague so many of us since returning from Gaza: scenes of malnourished children maimed and mutilated by our weapons, and their inconsolable mothers begging us to save them. Today we beg you to hear the cries of Gaza’s children that our consciences will not let us forget. We cannot fathom why our government continues arming Israel while its armed forces kill children en masse.

Those of us who have worked in Gaza since May of this year, when the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) first began operations, have witnessed a new and shocking form of violence: the mass killing by shooting, shelling, and bombing of people seeking food for their starving families. We appreciate that your envoy Mr. Witkoff spent a few hours in Gaza on August 1, but we have collectively spent more than 460 weeks there. We cannot emphasize strongly enough: the GHF is a humanitarian abomination. It is a uniquely cruel tool of coercion that the American taxpayer should not be funding and that Americans should not be staffing. Two American contractors have described in detail their time working with the GHF, including observing Americans shooting Palestinian civilians indiscriminately and hiding evidence of crimes against humanity.

Whenever any GHF site opens, the day’s events are entirely predictable: within one hour the nearest hospitals will be flooded with hundreds of wounded aid seekers. Each one of these mass casualty events instantly overwhelmed the already massively overcrowded and under resourced facilities. Many patients are dead on arrival or have injuries that are beyond the capabilities of Gaza’s healthcare system. The wounded often clutched plastic bags under their torn clothing, bags they had hoped to fill with whatever meager provisions they could find. When we finished with the first wave of patients, we braced ourselves for the second and even third waves that were sure to arrive. None of these people were combatants. They were simply civilians seeking out food to feed their starving families. As the news media has reported, some of these aid seekers are even being killed by American subcontractors whose salaries and weapons ultimately come from the American taxpayer.

Sickness, exposure, and starvation

With only marginal exceptions, everyone in Gaza is sick, injured, or both. This includes every aid worker, every international volunteer, and probably every Israeli hostage: every man, woman, and child.

By early 2024 malnutrition was already widespread in Gaza, even among our healthcare colleagues. Since March 2, 2025 when Israel completely closed the border to humanitarian aid and commerce, malnutrition and deaths from starvation have skyrocketed. Today virtually everyone in Gaza is visibly malnourished. We watched our own colleagues lose consciousness at work from malnutrition and dehydration, eating virtually nothing as they gave all available sustenance to their children. Every one of us lost weight rapidly in Gaza despite having privileged access to food. We have photographic evidence of life-threatening malnutrition in our patients – especially children – that we are eager to share with you.

As in every famine, the first deaths have been in the weakest members of society: the poorest families, young children, sick children, widows, the disabled, and the elderly. As of today, medical sources in Gaza have reported 453 deaths from starvation, including 150 children. We beg you to realize that the number of starvation cases reported by the medical system in a humanitarian crisis is usually less than 10% of the true number of deaths caused by starvation. Without an immediate ceasefire to facilitate a massive influx of aid, deaths from starvation will increase rapidly in the coming months. The token gestures that Israel has taken in response to American and international pressure are entirely inadequate. Although the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification first declared Gaza to be in famine in August 2025 it is entirely possible that since October 2023 thousands or even tens of thousands of people in Gaza have died of starvation-related causes. Many if not most of them were small children. Families have turned to animal feed so that their children might survive, only to see the feed’s impurities kill their children by inducing liver failure.

With winter fast approaching, with potentially lethal levels of malnutrition affecting nearly everyone in Gaza now, and with most of Gaza’s population exposed to the elements, we worry that even more people will die this year of hypothermia than did last year. Again, most of them will be young children, and their deaths are entirely and easily preventable.

An astonishingly high percentage of our surgical incisions became infected from the combination of malnutrition, impossible operating conditions, lack of basic sanitation supplies such as soap or bleach, and lack of surgical supplies and medications, including antibiotics. Surgical success in Gaza was nearly impossible, leaving of our patients to die slowly of sepsis even if we could stop them from bleeding to death.

Malnutrition in Gaza is causing widespread spontaneous abortions and an epidemic of underweight newborns, while simultaneously making it impossible for new mothers to breastfeed. Gaza’s newborns are at incredibly high risk of stillbirth and death due to the lack of access to any reliable source of nutrition or clean water. In a shocking act of wanton cruelty Israel has even forbidden the importation of baby formula into Gaza, going so far as to confiscate it from the suitcases of international healthcare volunteers. We can never forget that the world abandoned these innocent women and babies to such a miserable fate.

The displacement of virtually all of Gaza’s sick and malnourished population, half of whom are children, to areas without running water or even toilets is disgraceful and shockingly inhumane. This has resulted in widespread disease and death from viral and bacterial infectious diseases, particularly in small children. Virtually every child under the age of five whom we encountered, both inside and outside the hospital, had a cough, watery diarrhea, or both. We found cases of hepatitis A in nearly every room of the hospitals in which we served, including in our healthcare colleagues. Epidemics are raging in Gaza today, and as with malnutrition, the most vulnerable and young children are the first to succumb to them.

Destruction of the healthcare system

The Israeli attack on Gaza’s healthcare system is simply unprecedented in world history. Israel has attacked every hospital of any significance and the vast majority of clinics in Gaza. Our healthcare colleagues have been murdered in cold blood with bombs and bullets, oftentimes within the halls of the hospitals where they spent their lives saving others. These are crimes of the highest order. Our own government’s support for them is intolerable.

Those of us who worked with pregnant women regularly saw stillbirths and maternal deaths that were easily preventable in any developing country’s healthcare system. The rate of infection in C-section incisions was astonishingly high. Women underwent vaginal deliveries and even C-sections without anesthesia. They were lucky to receive Tylenol afterwards, since no other pain medications were available.

Israel has destroyed most of Gaza’s healthcare system and killed more than 1,581 healthcare workers as of July 16, 2025. This is more than 17 healthcare workers killed every week since October 7, 2023. This is entirely unprecedented in the history of warfare. Several of the signatories to this letter were saved only by luck from severe injury or death during Israeli attacks on hospitals. Many of us wonder what the American government would think of American doctors and nurses being killed by an American bomb fired at them by an American ally. Would our deaths matter?

The hospitals where we worked were starved of the most basic supplies, from surgical material to ventilators to soap. They were regularly cut off from electricity and internet access, denied clean water, and operated at four to seven times their bed capacity. Every hospital was overwhelmed by displaced persons seeking safety, a constant stream of sick and malnourished patients seeking care, and a huge influx of seriously wounded patients.

Our Palestinian healthcare colleagues are among the most traumatized people we met. Like everyone in Gaza they have lost their own homes and family members. Our colleagues were acutely aware that their work as healthcare providers had marked them as targets for Israel. This makes a mockery of the protected status hospitals and healthcare providers are granted under the oldest and most cherished provisions of International Humanitarian Law.

Virtually every Palestinian healthcare worker has lived through or fled at least one Israeli siege of a hospital, as have many of us. The stories our healthcare colleagues told us about treating patients under fire, burying dead patients and even their own colleagues in mass graves, and surviving by drinking and washing with intravenous fluids seem to eliminate any sense of justice from the world. Many of our colleagues were taken by Israeli forces during these attacks. They all told us a slightly different version of the same story: in captivity they were barely fed, continuously physically and psychologically abused, and ultimately dumped naked on the side of a road. Many told us they were subjected to mock executions and other forms of mistreatment and torture. Far too many of our colleagues told us they were simply waiting to die. Hundreds of our colleagues remain in captivity. As of today, the director of every hospital north of the Netzarim corridor has either been killed or arbitrarily detained by Israeli forces. Some have been released without charges, trial, or even an accusation of wrongdoing.

Every medical school in Gaza has been physically destroyed. None of them were destroyed during fighting between the warring parties: all were systematically leveled by American-made bulldozers and in controlled demolitions. The medical students we taught in Gaza were some of the most dedicated and enthusiastic young people we have ever worked with. Many of them have been killed by Israeli forces. Seeing them cut down day after day with weapons we pay for has left many of our souls broken and empty.

The 152 signatories to this letter spent more than 460 weeks inside Gaza’s hospitals and clinics. We wish to be clear: not once did any of us see any type of Palestinian militant activity in any of Gaza’s hospitals or other healthcare facilities. We urge you to see that Israel has systematically devastated Gaza’s entire healthcare system and targeted our colleagues for torture, disappearance, and murder on an unprecedented scale, not because it was militarily necessary but in order to destroy that system’s ability to save lives.

Mr. President, our direct observations and many publicly available studies lead us to believe that the death toll from this conflict is likely many times higher than the partial reporting of violent deaths from the Ministry of Health in Gaza. We also believe there is probative evidence of widespread violations of American laws governing the use of American weapons abroad, and of International Humanitarian Law. We cannot forget scenes of unbearable cruelty directed at civilian men and women, and especially at children. Our government is a direct participant in these crimes. The American contractors who have worked at GHF sites may have participated in crimes against humanity.

What is happening in Gaza is not a war. In war, children who are still learning to walk are not regularly shot in the head. In war, homeless, starving civilians are not enticed into death traps using rice and lentils as bait. In war, two dozen doctors, nurses, paramedics, rescue workers, and firefighters are not killed every week for nearly two years straight.

Mr. President, any solution to this problem must begin with an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The United States does not need to ask Israel to agree to this: we can impose a ceasefire on the warring parties by simply stopping arms shipments to Israel and announcing that we will participate in an international arms embargo against Israel and all Palestinian armed groups. We stress what many others have repeatedly told you, and what we told the previous administration: American law is perfectly clear on this matter, continuing to arm Israel is illegal.

We urge you to immediately withhold all military, economic, and diplomatic support for the State of Israel, and to participate in an international arms embargo against Israel and all Palestinian armed groups until a permanent ceasefire is established in Gaza that includes the release of all Israeli and Palestinian captives and hostages. These policies should remain in place until a permanent resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is negotiated and implemented between the two parties.

President Trump, we have witnessed crimes beyond comprehension. Crimes directed at children and pregnant women, at the weak and sick, at the hungry and desperate. We cannot believe you wish to continue facilitating this shocking assault on our collective humanity.

Please meet with us to discuss what we saw in Gaza with our own eyes, and why we feel that American policy in the Middle East must change drastically.

At a minimum, we recommend the following steps be taken urgently:

1.     All crossings between Israel and Gaza, as well as the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt, must be reopened immediately to allow unfettered aid delivery by recognized international humanitarian organizations. This must include not only food, water, and medical supplies but also temporary shelter. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation should be defunded immediately, and the people who led it should be investigated for violations of American and international law. Security screening of aid deliveries must be conducted by an independent international inspection regime instead of by Israeli forces. These screenings must be based on a clear, unambiguous, and published list of forbidden items, with a clear independent international mechanism for challenging the prohibition of items.

2.     A bare minimum of 15L of potable water per person per day – the Sphere Handbook minimum in a humanitarian emergency – must be allocated to the population of Gaza.

3.     Full and unrestricted access of medical, surgical, and public health professionals and medical and surgical equipment to the Gaza Strip must be resumed. This must include items taken in healthcare professionals’ personal luggage to safeguard their proper storage, sterility, and timely delivery. All equipment needed to properly rescue people dying of starvation – from laboratory testing equipment to nasogastric tubes to enteral feeding formulas and ready-to-use therapeutic foods – should be prioritized. Incredibly, Israel continues to block healthcare workers of Palestinian descent from working in Gaza, even those who are born American citizens. Israel also arbitrarily denies the entry of more than half of international healthcare volunteers to Gaza. This makes a mockery of the American ideal that “all men are created equal” and degrades both our national ideals and our profession. Our work saves lives. Our Palestinian healthcare colleagues in Gaza are desperate for relief and protection, and they deserve both.

We are not politicians. We do not claim to have all the answers. We are simply healing professionals who cannot remain silent about what we saw in Gaza. Every day that we continue supplying weapons and munitions to Israel is another day that men and women are shredded by our bombs and children are murdered with our bullets. Another day that children starve in their helpless mothers’ arms.

President Trump, we urge you: end this madness now!

Sincerely,

Feroze Sidhwa, MD, MPH, FACS, FICS

Trauma, acute care, critical care, and general surgeon

Secretary/Treasurer, Chest Wall Injury Society

Associate Professor of Surgery, California Northstate University College of Medicine

Northern California Veterans Affairs general surgeon

Prior humanitarian work in Haiti, West Bank, Ukraine (3 deployments since 2023), and Zimbabwe

Treated victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing

Served at European Hospital, March 25-April 8, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, March 6-April 1, 2025

French Camp, CA

Mark Perlmutter, MD, FAAOS, FICS

Orthopedic and hand surgeon

Past President, World Surgical Foundation

Past Global Vice President, International College of Surgeons

Prior humanitarian work in 30 countries

Treated victims of 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina

Served at European Hospital, March 25-April 8, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex and Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, March 12-26, 2025

Rocky Mount, NC

Thaer Ahmad, MD

Emergency medicine physician

Director of Global Health, Advocate Christ Medical Center

Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine

Served at Nasser Medical Complex and Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, January 8-24, 2024

Chicago, IL

Adam Hamawy, MD

Plastic and reconstructive surgeon

Lt. Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.)

Served at European Hospital, May 1-21, 2024

Princeton, NJ

Thalia Pachiyannakis, MD, FACOG

Obstetrician and gynecologist

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, June 20-July 11, 2024

South Bend, IN

Tanya Haj-Hassan, BM BCh, MSc

Pediatric critical care intensivist

Prior humanitarian work with Doctors Without Borders in Liberia, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Chad, Burkina Fasso, Kenya, and Uganda

Prior humanitarian work in the West Bank and Gaza

Rhodes Scholar

Served at Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, March 11-25, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, Shifa Hospital, Rantisi Children’s Hospital, and Patient Friends Benevolent Society Hospital, February 18-March 28, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

Mike M. Mallah, MD

Trauma, acute care, critical care, and general surgeon

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Director of Global Surgery Program

Served at European Hospital, March 4-18, 2024

Charleston, SC

John Kahler, MD, FAAP

Pediatrician

Co-founder, MedGlobal

Served at Rafah Primary Care Clinics, January 8-24, 2024

Served at Kamal Adwan Hospital and Nutrition Center, March 4-25, 2024

Chicago, IL

Thomas Adamkiewicz, MD, FRCPC, MSCR

Pediatrician

Associate professor of family medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, July 27-August 11, 2025

Atlanta, GA

Alison J. Kinning, MD, RPVI

Vascular surgeon

Served at European Hospital, March 13-27, 2025

Flint, MI

Kathleen Claire Gallagher, MD

General surgeon

Seven-year veteran of the Kentucky Air National Guard, deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan

Served at Aqsa Martyr's Hospital and Nasser Medical Complex, September 2-25, 2025

Grand Forks, ND

Anneliese Stephenson-Wenn, RN

Critical care nursing

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, August 7-September 11, 2025

Los Angeles, CA

E. Brennan Bollman, MD, MPH

Emergency medicine physician

Served at Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, March 6-April 8, 2025

New York City, NY

Terry Jodrie, MD, FACEP, NRP

Emergency medicine physician

Clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Medical Coordinator, Project GEMINI

Served at Khan Younis and Mawasi trauma stabilization points, March 10-April 6, 2025

Washington, DC

Ya-Sin Peaks, MD, DMD

Oral and maxillofacial surgery

Marine Corps Veteran

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, July 19-August 8, 2025

Chico, CA

Andee Vaughn, RN, BSN

Trauma and emergency nurse

Served at Quds Hospital, July 1-25, 2025

Seattle, WA

Ambereen Sleemi, MD, MPH, FACOG, FURPS

Urogynecologist

Executive director and co-founder, International Medical Response Foundation

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, July 1-28, 2025

Brooklyn, NY

Seema Jilani, MD, FAAP

Pediatric hospitalist

Council on Foreign Relations Truman National Security Fellow

Served at Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, December 25, 2023-January 8, 2024

Houston, TX

Clayton Dalton, MD

Emergency medicine physician

Served at Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, January 29-February 6, 2025

Santa Fe, NM

Travis Melin, DO, MS

Anesthesiologist and critical care intensivist

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Served at Awda Hospital and Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, June 5-July 31, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, July 8-August 26, 2025

Portland, OR

Victoria Aveson, MD

General surgeon

Served at Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, September 3-29, 2024

New York City, NY

Vanita Gupta, MD

Critical care intensivist

Served at European Hospital, January 29-February 8, 2024

White Plains, NY

Robert Myles Dickason, MD, MPH

Disaster and emergency medicine physician

Served at Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, August 1-7, 2024

Ridgefield, WA

Monica Johnston, RN, BSN, CCRN

Adult and pediatric critical care, burn, and wound care nurse

Served at European Hospital, May 1-17, 2024

Portland, OR

Merril Tydings, BSN, RN, CEN

Flight, emergency, and critical care nurse

Served at European Hospital, January 24-February 7, 2024

Santa Fe, NM

Margaret Ogden, MPH, RN, CCRN

Critical care, emergency, and trauma nurse

Prior humanitarian work in Haiti, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Kenya

Served at European Hospital, February 19-March 4, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, July 16-August 13, 2024

Seattle, WA

Laura Swoboda, DNP, APNP, FNP-C, FNP-BC, CWOCN-AP, WOCNF

Wound care nurse practitioner

Served at European Hospital, April 29-May 17, 2024

Milwaukee, WI

Jennifer Arriaga, BSN, RN, CCRN

Neonatal and pediatric ICU nurse

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, January 29-February 6, 2025

Fort Worth, TX

Amanda Nasser, FNP-BC

Emergency medicine nurse practitioner

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, August 9-September 4, 2025

San Diego, CA

Gamal Marey, MD, FACS, FACC

General and cardiothoracic surgeon

Lt. Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve

Served at European Hospital, March 25-April 8, 2024

Stockton, CA

Deborah Weidner, MD, MBA

General, child, and adolescent psychiatrist

American Red Cross volunteer

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, August 15-September 13, 2024

Hartford, CT

Bridget Rochios, RN, MSN, CNM, WHNP

Midwife and reproductive health nurse

Served at Emirati Hospital for Women and Children, May 1-28, 2024

San Francisco, CA

Brenda J. Maldonado, RN

Emergency nurse

Prior humanitarian work in Ukraine, Iraq, and Bangladesh

Served at Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, April 15-28, 2024

Vancouver, WA

Bing Li, MD

Emergency medicine physician

U.S. Army Veteran

Served at European Hospital, Nasser Medical Complex, and Indonesian Hospital, June 6-July 3, 2024

Peridot, AZ

Gregory F. Shay, MD

Pediatric pulmonologist

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, September 28-October 31, 2024

San Francisco, CA

Wilhelmi Massay, BSN, BA-Ed, TNCC

Critical care and trauma nurse

Served at Indonesian Hospital and Nasser Medical Complex, July 24-August 15, 2024

Omaha, NE

Elidalis Burgos, MSN, APRN, AGACNP-BC

Acute care nurse practitioner

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, July 8-August 5, 2025

Orlando, FL

Alia Kattan, MD

Anesthesiologist and critical care intensivist

Served at European Hospital, April 29-May 17, 2024

Newport Beach, CA

Sameer Khan

Cardiac anesthesiologist and critical care intensivist

Served at European Hospital, April 29-May 17, 2024

Newport Beach, CA

Ayaz Pathan, MD, MBA, FACEP

Emergency medicine physician

Divisional President, ApolloMD

Served at Indonesian Hospital and Nasser Medical Complex, July 25-August 15, 2024

Raleigh, NC

Shiraz Saleem, DO, MS

Internal medicine, nephrology, and critical care medicine

Served at Nasser Medical Complex and Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, January 29-February 6, 2025

Oakland, CA

Hina Cheema, MD

Obstetrician and gynecologist

Served at Emirati Hospital for Women and Children, March 6-20, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, June 18-July 11, 2024

Dallas, TX

Irfan Galaria, MD, MBA

Plastic and reconstructive surgeon

Served at European Hospital, January 29-February 7, 2024

Chantilly, VA

Ayesha Saliha Khan, MD, MPH

Emergency medicine physician

Associate professor of emergency medicine, Stanford School of Medicine

Served at Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, November 28-December 26, 2024

Stanford, CA

Mahmooda Syed, DO, MBA, FACEP

Emergency medicine physician

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, August 8-September 5, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex and Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, December 1-30, 2024

Seattle, WA

Mohamed S. Kuzeiz, MD, FAAP

Pediatrician

Seved at Patient Friends Benevolent Society Hospital, January 9-30, 2025

Denver, CO

Mohammed Abdul Alshareef, MD

Neurosurgeon

Served at European Hospital, February 8-19, 2025

Denver, CO

Adil Husain, MD

Emergency medicine physician

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, June 12-26, 2025

Dallas, TX

Abdul Basit Khan, MD

Neurosurgeon

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, June 26-July 10, 2025

Oklahoma City, OK

Anas Ahmed, MD

Internal medicine physician

Served at Aqsa Martyr's Hospital and Nasser Medical Complex, April 28-May 27, 2025

Columbus, OH

Syed Azizur Rahman, MD

Interventional radiologist

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, June 12-26, 2025

Milwaukee, WI

Norhan Sharaf, DO

Emergency medicine physician

Served at Shifa Hospital and Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, July 15-31, 2025

Dallas, TX

Mihir Chaudhary, MD, MPH

Trauma, acute care, critical care, and general surgeon

Serving at Nasser Medical Complex, September 9, 2025-present

Atlanta, GA

Aqsa Durrani, MD, MPH

Pediatric critical care intensivist

Served at Zawaida Trauma Field Hospital, February 24-April 24, 2025

New York City, NY

Alliya Qazi, MD

Trauma, acute care, critical care, and general surgeon

Served at European Hospital, March 7-15, 2024

Served at Shifa Hospital and Ahli Baptist Hospital, December 5-19, 2024

Irvine, CA

Ahmad Abdulhadi, RN

Critical care nursing

Served at Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, June 5-July 3, 2025

Tampa, FL

Farhan Azeez, DO

Emergency medicine physician

Served at Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, July 27-August 12, 2025

Dallas, TX

Syed Ahmed, DPM, FACFAS

Foot and ankle surgeon, and reconstructive surgery and limb salvage specialist

Served at European Hospital, April 29-May 17, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, April 29-May 19, 2025

Chicago, IL

Ahmed Farhat, MD

Emergency medicine physician

Served at Shifa Hospital, Ahli Baptist Hospital, and Nasser Medical Complex, July 24-August 8, 2025

Los Angeles, CA

Yahya Shaikh, MD, MPH

Primary care physician

Served at Kamal Adwan Hospital, June 27-July 27, 2024

Baltimore, MD

Waqas Ali, DO

Emergency medicine physician

Served at Shifa Hospital, Ahli Baptist Hospital, and Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, August 7-21, 2025

Dallas, TX

Tarik Elmohd, DMD

Oral and maxillofacial surgeon

Served at Shifa Hospital, Ahli Baptist Hospital, and Asdiqaa Al-Mareed Hospital, January 9-29, 2025

Tampa, FL

Khaled Al-Hreish, MD

Internal medicine physician

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, June 26-July 10, 2025

Dallas, TX

Aslam Akhtar, MD, PhD

Emergency medicine physician

Served at Shifa Hospital, Ahli Baptist Hospital, and Nasser Medical Complex, January 9-28, 2025

Served at Shifa Hospital, Ahli Baptist Hospital, and Nasser Medical Complex, July 24-August 5, 2025

Los Angeles, CA

Razan Al-Nahhas, DO

Emergency medicine physician

Served at Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, October 15-November 19, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, Ahli Baptist Hospital, Shifa Hospital, and Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, February 27-April 27, 2025

Washington, DC

Sameer Ahmad, MD

Otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, Ahli Baptist Hospital, Sahaba Hospital, Friends of the Patient Society Hospital, and Khidma Hospital, January 9-29, 2025

Los Angeles, CA

Arshad Kaleem, MD, DMD, FACS

Maxillofacial and head and neck surgeon

Served at Shifa Hospital, Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, and Quds Hospital, September 4-25, 2025

El Paso, TX

Javeria Shaheen Qureshi, MD, MPH, FACS

Trauma, acute care, critical care, and general surgeon

Served at Shifa Hospital and Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, September 4-28, 2025

Chicago, IL

Ammar Ghanem, MD, FCCP

Pulmonary and critical care intensivist

Clinical Assistant Professor, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Served at European Hospital, May 1-17, 2024

Lansing, MI

Hamza AbdulQader, BSN, RN

Emergency and critical care nursing

Founder, Humanity Above All

Served at European Hospital, March 4-18, 2024

Chicago, IL

Talal Khan, MD, FACP, FASN, FRCP

Nephrologist

Clinical Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, July 16-August 13, 2024

Oklahoma City, OK

Bilal Hussain Piracha, MD, MS

Emergency medicine physician

Assistant professor, Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Served at Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, March 7-19, 2024

Served at Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital and Ahli Baptist Hospital, July 18-August 1, 2024

Dallas, TX

Chandra Hassan, MD, FACS, FRCS

General, bariatric, minimally invasive, and robotic surgeon

Board Member, MedGlobal

Prior humanitarian work in Ukraine and Syria

Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Illinois College of Medicine

Served at Nasser Medical Complex and Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, January 9-23, 2024

Chicago, IL

Ayman Abdul-Ghani, MD, FACS, FRCS

Cardiothoracic surgeon

Clinical Associate Professor, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

Served at European Hospital, March 25-April 8, 2024

Honolulu, HI

Hani El-Omrani, MD

Obstetric and regional anesthesiologist

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Served at European Hospital, March 4-18, 2024

Seattle, WA

Hisham Qandeel, MD

Cardiothoracic surgeon

Clinical Assistant Professor, Michigan State University Medical Schools

Served at European Hospital, March 18-April 1, 2024

Lansing, MI

Imad Tamimi, DMD

Oral and maxillofacial surgeon

Clinical Associate Professor, Rutgers New Jersey School of Dental Medicine

President, Palestine Children’s Relief Fund Medical Advisory Board

Served at European Hospital, February 8-20, 2024

Clifton, NJ

Karim Fikry, MD

Anesthesiologist and critical care intensivist

Division Director, Anesthesia Critical Care, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

Served at European Hospital, April 8-15, 2024

Burlington, MA

Khaled J. Saleh, MD, MPH, MHCM, FRCS, CPE, FAAOS

Orthopedic surgeon

Clinical professor, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, & Wayne State University School of Medicine

President, Fajr Scientific

Served at European Hospital, April 2-10, 2024

Detroit, MI

Mohamed Elfar, MD, MSc, FACS, FCCM

Plastic and reconstructive surgeon

Assistant Professor of Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University

Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Touro University New York College of Osteopathic Medicine

Served at European Hospital, February 8-20, 2024

New York City, NY

Nahreen Ahmed, MD, MPH

Pulmonary and critical care intensivist

Former medial director, MedGlobal

Previous humanitarian work in Yemen, Syria, Ukraine, and Sudan

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, January 8-21, 2024

Served at the MedGlobal/WHO Rafah Nutrition Center, Awda Hospital, and Kamal Adwan Hospital, March 4-18, 2024

Philadelphia, PA

Thaer Daifallah, DDS, FACS

Oral and maxillofacial surgeon

Program director, Oral and maxillofacial residency, and Associate Professor, University of Missouri Kansas City

Served at European Hospital, January 22-February 5, 2024

Kansas City, MO

Yassar Arain, MD, FAAP

Neonatologist

Fulbright Scholar

Served at Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital and European Hospital, April 15-24, 2024

Dallas, TX

Zaher Sahloul, MD, FCCP

Pulmonary and critical care intensivist

President, MedGlobal

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

2020 Gandhi Peace Award recipient

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, January 9-25, 2024

Chicago, IL

Lana Abugharbieh, BSN, RN, CEN

Trauma, operating room, and emergency nurse

Served at European Hospital and Rafah Primary Care Clinics, January 24-February 7, 2024

Served at European Hospital, Feb 18-March 6, 2025

Ashburn, VA

Nabeel Rana, MD

General and vascular surgeon

Served at Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, June 20-July 9, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex and Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, October 1-29. 2024

Charlotte, NC

Nor Rizek, BSN, RN

Trauma and emergency nurse

Served at Shifa Hospital, Ahli Baptist Hospital, and Nasser Medical Complex, January 9-28, 2025

Phoenix, AZ

Rammie Ashkar, BSN, RN, EMT-B

Critical care nursing

Served at European Hospital, March 4-18, 2024

Chicago, IL

Salman Dasti, MD

Anesthesiologist and interventional pain specialist

Served at European Hospital and Nasser Medical Complex, June 20-July 4, 2024

San Francisco, CA

Sarah Badran, MD, MACM, FPICCS, FSCAI

Pediatric cardiologist

Served at European Hospital, April 29-May 22, 2024

Grand Rapids, MI

Shehzad Batliwala, DO, MGM, WCRVS

Ophthalmologist

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, Ahli Baptist Hospital, and Patient Friends Benevolent Society, January 9-29, 2025

Dallas, TX

Tammy Abughnaim, MD

Emergency medicine physician

Served at al-Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, March 6-20, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, July 24-August 15, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, March 6-April 1, 2025

Chicago, IL

Tarek Gouda, RN, AACN

Critical care nurse

Served at European Hospital, March 5-13, 2024

San Diego, CA

Mark Brauner, DO, FACEP

Emergency medicine physician

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, June 12-26, 2025

Eugene, OR

Mirza Shadman Baig, MD

Vascular surgeon

Served at Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, April 1-10, 2024

Served at Indonesian Hospital and Nasser Medical Complex, July 23-August 13, 2024

Served at Aqsa Martyr's Hospital and Ahli Baptist Hospital, July 26-August 12, 2025

Dallas, TX

Aman Odeh, MBBS, FAAP

Pediatrician

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School

Served at Emirati Hospital for Women and Children, March 20-April 1, 2024

Austin, TX

Owais Nadeem, MD

Pulmonary and critical care medicine

Clinical assistant professor, Michigan State University

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, May 29-June 12, 2025

Detroit, MI

Uzer Khan, MBBS, MD, FACS

Trauma, acute care, critical care, and general surgeon

Associate professor of surgery, Texas Christian University

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, July 28-August 11, 2025

Fort Worth, TX

Aasif Kazi, MD

Otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon

Served at European Hospital, April 3-8, 2024

Loma Linda, CA

Abdallah Abusalah, RN, BSN

Critical care and trauma nurse

Served at European Hospital, March 18-April 1, 2024

Detroit, MI

Abdalrahman Algendy, MD

Anesthesiologist

Served at European Hospital, February 19-March 5, 2024

Toledo, OH

Abdullah Brown, MD

Anesthesiologist

Served at European Hospital, February 8-20, 2024

Herndon, VA

Abdullah Ghali, MD

Orthopedic surgery resident

Served at European Hospital, April 3-8, 2024

Houston, TX

Abeerah Muhammad, MSN, RN, CEN

Emergency and critical care nurse

Served at European Hospital, May 1-17, 2024

Dallas, TX

Adnan Zaidi, MD

Orthopedic surgeon

Served at European Hospital, February 4-20, 2024

Served at Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, July 16-30, 2025

Milwaukee, WI

Ahmad Hussain, MD, FACS

Vascular surgeon

Served at European Hospital, May 1-17

Los Angeles, CA

Ahmad Yousaf, MD, MBA

Internal medicine physician and pediatrician

Served at Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, June 24-July 16, 2024

Served at Shifa Hospital and Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, July 27-August 12, 2025

Little Rock, AK

Ahmed Ebeid, MD

Anesthesiologist and pain specialist

Served at Kamal Adwan Hospital, March 25-April 13, 2024

Portland, OR

Ahmed Hassabelnaby, DO

Emergency medicine physician

Served at European Hospital, March 18-April 1, 2024

Served at Indonesian Hospital, June 20-July 3, 2024

Orlando, FL

Ahram Ali, MD, MS

Pediatric critical care intensivist

Served at Emirati Hospital for Women and Children, February 16-28, 2024

Los Angeles, CA

Ali Elaydi, MD

Orthopedic and spine surgeon

Served at European Hospital, April 3-10, 2024

Dallas, TX

Amer Afaneh, MD, FACS

Trauma, acute care, critical care, and general surgeon

Served at European Hospital, March 25-April 8, 2024

Toledo, OH

Amr Abdelgawad, MD, MBA

Pediatric and trauma orthopedic surgeon

Served at European Hospital, April 3-15, 2024

Brooklyn, NY

Asma A. Taha, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC/AC, FAAN

Pediatric nurse practitioner

President, Association of Faculties of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

Professor of Nursing, Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing

Served at Emirati Hospital for Women and Children, February 15-March 1, 2024

Portland, OR

Azeem Elahi, MD

Pulmonary and critical care intensivist

Served at European Hospital and Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, April 15-24, 2024

Charlotte, NC

Bara Zuhaili, MD, MPH, FACS, DFSVS, RPVI

Vascular surgeon

Served at Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, January 22-February 6, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, July 23-August 4, 2024

Flint, MI

Bashar Alzghoul, MD, FCCP

Pulmonary and critical care intensivist

Served at European Hospital, March 25-April 8, 2024

Gainesville, FL

Dhiaa Daoud, MD, MSC, FACEP

Emergency medicine physician

President and founder, Doctors for Hope Foundation

Served at European Hospital, March 15-April 1, 2024

Indian River, FL

Haleh Sheikholeslami, MD, FAAFP

Family medicine physician and integrative medicine specialist

Served at Tal al-Sultan Outpatient Clinic, May 1-24, 2024

Mountain View, CA

Haseeb Khawaja, MD

Internal medicine physician

Served at European Hospital, April 1-14, 2024

Served at European Hospital and Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, June 12-July 11, 2024

Detroit, MI

Hina Syed, MD

Internal medicine and geriatric medicine physician

Served at Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, April 1-10, 2024

College Park, MD

Iman Ismail, PA-C

Internal and emergency medicine physician assistant

Served at European Hospital, April 1-10, 2024

West Bloomfield, MI

Jawad A. Khan, MD, MPH

Hand and upper extremity surgeon

Served at Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, April 1-11, 2024

Lake Forrest, CA

Jiab Suleiman, DO, MS

Orthopedic surgeon

Served at European Hospital and Kuwaiti Specialty Hospital, February 19-March 5, 2024

Served at European Hospital and Kuwaiti Specialty Hospital, April 1-15, 2024

Detroit, MI

Jomana Al-Hinti, MD

Neurologist and movement disorders specialist

Served at European Hospital, May 1-21, 2024

Toledo, OH

Kanwal Chaudhry, MD

Emergency medicine physician

Served at European Hospital, April 14-24, 2024

New York City, NY

Khaled Eissa, MD

Pulmonary, critical care, neurocritical care

Served at European Hospital and Aqsa Martyr's Hospital, March 25-April 3, 2024

Sharon, MA

Khawaja Nimr Ikram, DO

Orthopedic surgeon

Served at European Hospital, January 26-February 8, 2024

Served at Nasser Medical Complex and Ahli Baptist Hospital, January 9-27, 2025

Dallas, TX

M. Umar Burney, MD, MBA, FAAOS

Orthopedic surgeon

Founder and Chair, Gift of Disability Alleviation

Served at European Hospital, April 2-9, 2024

Dallas, TX

Mahmoud G. Sabha, MD

Family medicine and wound care physician

Served at Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, March 25-April 3, 2024

Served at European Hospital, May 1-17, 2024

Dallas, TX

Mohamad Abdelfattah, MD

Pulmonary and critical care intensivist

Served at European Hospital, May 1-17, 2024

Los Angeles, CA

Mohammad Subeh, MD, MS

Emergency medicine physician and ultrasound specialist

Served at the International Medical Corps Rafah Field Hospital, February 14-March 13, 2024

Served at the International Medical Corps Deir el-Balah Field Hospital, June 25-July 18, 2024

Mountain View, CA

Mohammed Z. Rahman, RN

Critical care nurse

Served at European Hospital, March 4-18, 2024

Longwood, FL

Mohammed J. al-Jaghbeer, MD, FCCP

Pulmonary and critical care intensivist

Served at European Hospital, March 25-April 8, 2024

Cleveland, OH

Mohammed Hisham Naji, MD, FACS

Anesthesiologist

President, DC Chapter, Syrian American Medical Association

Served at European Hospital, January 22-February 6, 2024

Vienna, VA

Mohammed Khaleel, MD, MS

Orthopedic and spine surgeon

Served at European Hospital, April 3-10, 2024

Fort Worth, TX

Nadia Yousef, MD

Nephrologist

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, June 18-July 3, 2024

Modesto, CA

Ndal Farah, MD

Anesthesiologist

Served at European Hospital, February 8-20, 2024

Toledo, OH

Omer Ismail, MD, FACS

Trauma, acute care, critical care, and general surgeon

Served at European Hospital, May 1-21, 2024

Des Moines, IA

Raed Otoom, MSN, BSN, RN, CES-A

ECMO and vascular access nurse specialist

Served at European Hospital, April 29-May 22, 2024

Washington, DC

Ramin Pirouz, MD, JD

Pulmonary and critical care intensivist

Chair of Medicine and Director of Critical Care Medicine, Calvert Health Medical Center

Served at Nasser Medical Complex, August 8-22, 2024

Prince Frederick, MD

Rana Mahmoud, RN, BSN

Emergency and critical care nurse

Served at European Hospital, January 22-February 6, 2024

Served at European Hospital, March 25-April 8, 2024

Wesley Chapel, FL

Rassoul Abu-Nuwar, MD, FACS, FASMBS

General, advanced GI, bariatric, foregut surgeon, and surgical endoscopist

Founder and President, Jordanian-American Physicians Association

Served at European Hospital, January 12-February 4, 2024

Boston, MA

Riad Abdelkarim, MD, MHCM, FACP

Internal medicine physician

Chief Medical Officer, Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation

Served at European Hospital, April 29-May 17, 2024

Corona, CA

Sohiub Nizar Assaf, MD, MS

Internal medicine physician

Served at Najjar Hospital Rafah Clinics, March 18-April 1, 2024

Chicago, IL

Syed Irfan Qasim Ali, MD

Anesthesiologist and interventional pain specialist

Served at European Hospital, April 1-10, 2024

Served at Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital and Ahli Baptist Hospital, August 5-21, 2025

Dallas, TX

Syed M. Sayeed, MD, FACS

Plastic and reconstructive surgeon

Served at European Hospital, April 16-May 1, 2024

Served at European Hospital, Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital, and Tal al-Sultan Outpatient Clinic, September 4-25, 2025

New York City, NY

Zena Saleh, MD

General surgery resident

Served at Najjar Hospital, April 15-May 2, 2024

Camden, NJ

Tamer Hassen, BSN

Trauma and emergency nurse

Served at European Hospital, April 29-May 22, 2024

Bedford, MA

Usman Shah, MD

Pulmonary and critical care intensivist

Medical Director of Crescent Free Clinic, Fullerton, CA

Served at European Hospital, April 29-May 17, 2024

Orange County, CA

Waleed Sayedahmad, MD, PhD

Anesthesiologist

Served at European Hospital, March 25-April 8, 2024

Parkland, FL

Yousef Khelfa, MD, FACP

Hematologist and oncologist

Medical Director, Diana J. White Cancer Institute

Served at European Hospital, January 22-February 5, 2024

Sonora, CA