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It’s been three months since Fozia Alvi got back from her medical aid mission in Gaza, but what she witnessed there continues to haunt her.

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“Every space was overcrowded [and] we were rationing medical supplies,” Alvi told The Tyee in an interview. “A mile away, thousands of humanitarian aid trucks were and still are being obstructed from entering Gaza.”

The Pakistan-born, Calgary-based physician has been vocal about what she and many international scholars have referred to as a genocide in Gaza.

Last December, she published an op-ed in The Tyee about the health crisis in Gaza. “I must make it clear that I am not pro-Hamas,” she wrote. “As a medical professional, I value all human life. And I mourn all the lives lost in Israel.”