ActionAid Australia 243d ago

Maisoon Abu Breik is a midwife and delivery room nurse at Al-Awda Hospital - ActionAid's partner in Gaza. She shares her story of two years spent working through unimaginable conditions. One of the few midwives who remained in northern Gaza, she stayed under siege—cut off from her family, who endured their own journey of displacement and fear. She speaks of the pain that fills every corner of the hospital: the bombing, the constant danger, and the heartbreak of losing colleagues—one of whom she watched collapse at the delivery room door. Inside the besieged hospital, staff survived on a single meal a day, often just rice or bread, and drank what little water they could find after tanks were destroyed. Maisoon’s own home was bombed while her family was still inside. She remembers the terror of not knowing if they were alive, and the pain of being separated as they were displaced again and again. Her plea is simple: to live in peace like the rest of the world—to end the bombing, and to let Gaza’s women, children, and families live in safety and dignity. What hurts most, she says, is the world’s silence - a silence that deepens the wounds of those who are still waiting to be seen, heard, and understood