An ER nurse's eight days reporting from Gaza

DETROIT —

Anya Hassan, an emergency department nurse at Henry Ford Detroit, returned last week from an eight-day clinical mission with a U.S. medical NGO to Khan Younis in southern Gaza. She kept a diary throughout. Edited excerpts run below, with her permission.

The diary documents the daily logistics of triage in a half-functional emergency room, the absence of routine supplies most American nurses take for granted, and the moral injury of conducting triage decisions she would not have to make in any U.S. emergency department.