Out of the Ashes of Gaza Rises the ‘Class of the Phoenix’ as Medical Students Miraculously Celebrate Graduation

On December 25, something remarkable happened in Gaza. Against the backdrop of the rubble that is the almost entirely destroyed Al-Shifa Hospital, 230 Palestinian medical students celebrated graduation. Like other graduates around the world, they smiled and waved and threw their mortar boards joyfully into the air. Except that not one of them was like any other graduate anywhere else in the world. For more than two years they had studied under bombardment, displacement, starvation, a drastic lack of supplies and constant electricity cuts. They had treated not only strangers but members of their own families and even each other. And yet, it was the largest medical graduation ceremony held in Gaza during the genocide.

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