Content warning: mentions of suicide and self-harm.

On Jan. 29, 2024, an emergency registered nurse (R.N.), Lana Abugharbieh, volunteered on a medical mission with an American-based Medical NGO in Rafah, Gaza. She was a part of the first group of medical mission volunteers with this NGO since the genocide began. Just before they arrived in Cairo, the mission team learned that Nasser Hospital medical center, where they were originally planned to be stationed, was under siege.