Chicago-area emergency room doctor Thaer Ahmad will never forget one of the first times he had to declare a patient dead in Gaza’s Nasser Hospital.

A father carried in his three daughters after their house was bombed in the middle of the night.

“I remember the father basically asking us, telling us, ‘Hey, it’s only been five minutes. Please, it’s only been five minutes. I brought them right over, do something,’” Ahmad recounted in an interview with WBEZ. “And you know just by looking at them that there’s nothing you can do, and that they’re gone.”

Ahmad took out his stethoscope and searched for their heartbeats anyway. The girls lay on the floor, Ahmad on his knees, with their father standing over them.

“I know there’s no heartbeat… And I’m not looking up because I can’t look at him. I

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