In this episode of The Human Refuge, we talk to Dr. Mark Brauner about his experience volunteering at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza, Palestine, where he treated victims of mass casualty events during the ongoing genocide in June 2025. Dr. Mark Brauner is a board-certified emergency physician with over 20 years of clinical experience. We also discuss his activism, primarily in his effort to start a national campaign urging Congress to enforce the bipartisan Leahy Law and suspend U.S. military aid to units credibly implicated in gross human rights abuses (visit LeahyReviewNow.org). Follow Dr. Brauner on Instagram @doctormarkbrauner, TikTok @dr.markbrauner, and x @drmarkbrauner.

We discuss life and loss in Gaza with Mohammed Sirdah, a Palestinian pharmacist in Gaza, Palestine, before and after October 2023, the use of social media to spread awareness, and its role in creating communities. We also talk about Sirdah's new book, "A Journey from Misery to Hell," available on Lulu.com: https://www.lulu.com/search?page=1&sortBy=RELEVANCE&q=sirdah&adult_audience_rating=00&project_type=PRINTED_BOOK Follow Mohammed Sirdah on TikTok @sirdah & @sirdah2 Chapters: 00:00 Opening 07:19 Growing up in Gaza 14:00 Gaza before October 7th 15:35 Living with restrictions on daily life 24:00 Israeli control over Gaza & Palestinian ingenuity 30:25 Separation of Gaza from the West Bank 33:30 Book, "A Journey from Misery to Hell" 39:30 Tiktok & raising awareness 44:45 Creating community with the outside world 54:40 This didn't start on October 7th 56:00 Palestinian existence and rights 57:40 Growing up with regular Israeli airstrikes 1:02:30 Emotional & psychological effects of Israeli attacks 1:12:20 Everyone in Gaza has lost someone to the genocide 1:21:42 Sirdah names his family's martyrs 1:26:40 Palestinian journalists in Gaza 1:39:00 Dreams destroyed 1:44:20 Free Palestine, and you free the world 1:55:45 Closing remarks