![Ammar Ghanem Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society at one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals, left, poses with his family in Orlando, Fla., late Feb. 2024. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/1f583fde98204202a7c2e44f4982a933/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society at one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals, left, poses with his family in Orlando, Fla., late Feb. 2024. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.
![Uncredited An American volunteer burn nurse with the Palestinian American Medical Association, monitors a patient who sustained major burns on May 8, 2024, Khan Younis, Gaza. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/77fa6dc826df4f44882530a0582e8383/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
An American volunteer burn nurse with the Palestinian American Medical Association, monitors a patient who sustained major burns on May 8, 2024, Khan Younis, Gaza. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.
![Uncredited Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society, third from left, poses with a local team of ICU nurses and staff at the European General Hospital on May 6, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza, where he has been volunteering since early May. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/9c02290798b54c43aa832d9cc2dbd541/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society, third from left, poses with a local team of ICU nurses and staff at the European General Hospital on May 6, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza, where he has been volunteering since early May. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.
![Uncredited Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society at one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals, second from right, poses on May 7, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza, with a Palestinian doctor and two other American doctors volunteering at the European General Hospital where they have been since early May. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/c93bf48437a64986ba9820c96d6daa05/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society at one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals, second from right, poses on May 7, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza, with a Palestinian doctor and two other American doctors volunteering at the European General Hospital where they have been since early May. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.
![Uncredited Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering in one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals, stands by a young patient recovering from pneumonia on May 9, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/a191b15c0ea640329acc00031d8413a2/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering in one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals, stands by a young patient recovering from pneumonia on May 9, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.