Since Gaza was cut off from all imports, and its civilian population was targeted by constant bombardment, painkillers ran out quickly. Early on, harrowing reports of women undergoing c-sections without anesthesia made it to our screens. Soon after, the reports of children undergoing medical interventions, including the amputation of their limbs, without any medication became standard. Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta who was in Gaza for 43 days with Doctors Without Borders said: “I had never experienced this in any war zone before, running out of anesthetics and being forced to operate on people without anesthesia. I had never imagined such a thing in my life. I had been in Yemen, Iraq, and Syria [as a war doctor], but I had never thought that I would inflict pain on people by doing surgery without anesthesia.”