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'I want to go back': A New York nurse's journey to Gaza and back

 "The whole point of me pursuing a career is to use my skills to help our people," Rohan Gill, a 28-year-old registered nurse based in Brooklyn, New York, told Middle East Eye. "If I can't even do that, then what is the point?"

Gill was part of a medical team of volunteers with an organisation called Gila. He spent a month in Rafah volunteering in a primary care clinic. Here he tells us what he saw and why he desperately wants to go back.

Israeli forces have killed more than 36,000 Palestinians since 7 October, according to Gaza's health ministry. Over 80,000 have been wounded since the start of the war, and they are mostly women and children.

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