31 Days in Gaza: A Doctor's Story of Care, Grief, and Stubborn Love

In March 2024, Amara Lumen entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing to serve as a volunteer doctor for 31 days.
She arrived with medical supplies, fear, and the hope of being useful. Inside a hospital surrounded by ruin, she found overwhelming need, exhausted staff, dwindling supplies, and patients whose stories would stay with her long after she left.
But 31 Days in Gaza is not a book about war.
It is a book about people: the patients she served, the families who loved them, the nurses who kept working, the drivers who protected and guided, and the kitchen aunties who asked whether she had eaten.
A tender and deeply human memoir from One More Day: Memoirs of a Humanitarian Doctor, this is a story of care, grief, memory, and stubborn love.