By many accounts, Gaza it is currently one of the most dangerous places in the world. But that's not stopping Dr. Haleh Sheikholeslami from going there on a medical mission.
ByA Bay Area doctor is on her way to Gaza's Rafah border for a volunteer medical mission amid reports of hospitals being attacked and doctors killed.By many accounts, Gaza it is currently one of the most dangerous places in the world. But that's not stopping Dr. Haleh Sheikholeslami from going there on a medical mission.
Dr. Sheikholeslami is a family physician at Sutter Health in San Carlos. On Saturday, she headed out on a two week medical mission to Gaza. She lands in Cairo and then heads to the Rafah boarder, where the group of medical volunteers will cross into the town of Rafah. Sheikholeslami says know she is entering a war zone. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of an imminent ground invasion of Rafah. But she says that is not her focus right now.
"I think we are all really concerned for her safety. We know that so many lives in the region have been brutally taken. thousands of Palestinians, humanitarian aid workers, journalists, doctors, so I think we are all really concerned, but also really, really proud of her," says Sana.
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