Nurse from Canada who worked at Gaza hospital under siege describes difficult decision to leave [Video]

Looking for a moment’s refuge inside the staff room at the overcrowded European Hospital near Rafah, Ahmed Kouta throws himself on a paltry mattress in the corner and props himself up on a pack of cotton balls. It’s been a week since Kouta, a trained nurse, walked down the perilous Salah el Din road from Gaza’s north to the south.

He stopped at the hospital to lend a hand where he could. The carnage inside the medical centre reminds him of the fighting he witnessed in the north, the sieges on Al-Shifa Hospital and how the war has affected the thousands of Palestinians struggling without meaningful access to food or water.

Kouta documented the hardship to his 400,000 followers on Instagram, where the Palestinian Canadian is known as Prince Kouta. 

“Everybody’s life has changed,” said Kouta, 23. “Everyone in Gaza has either lost their home, lost their family member, lost …