Escaped from Al Shifa, a Palestinian surgeon recalls impossible choices

Escaped from Al Shifa, a Palestinian surgeon recalls impossible choices

BERLIN — With the power out, the water off, medical supplies short and hundreds of war injured and sheltering Palestinians crowding the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Ahmed Abunada was faced with impossible choices. "Who do I let die, this woman or that man?... I do not have the time to do reconstructive surgery on this child, I will have to amputate," said the 47-year-old surgeon, who left Gaza earlier this month to escape the fighting between…