From Gaza to Lebanon: Volunteer doctors on the front lines of war

“I was focused on the operation,” said Dr. Adam Fahs. “When I walked out of the operating room, I saw the boy’s mother sitting on the floor by the door. She had heard everything.”It was April 2026, one month after the war between Hezbollah and Israel had reignited on March 2. Fahs, a Lebanese-American orthopedic trauma surgeon, recalled his experience treating a 17-year-old boy at the Turkish Hospital in Saida after he had been critically injured by a double Israeli airstrike on their neighborhood in Sour.After an initial Israeli strike destroyed the apartment a floor above his family's home, the teenager heard his uncle calling for help from under the rubble and rushed upstairs. His father followed. Moments later, Israel launched a second strike on the building, killing the father and seriously injuring his son. The teenager was...