In early December, Ahmed recalls, “we heard tanks advancing from the edge of the yellow line.” Soon, a 14-year-old girl was rushed into the ICU with a shrapnel wound to the abdomen. The girl needed 250 milliliters of blood, “a precious resource” at Al-Shifa, and a splenectomy. Even with minimal supplies, even amid an attack that was not supposed to happen, the doctors at Al-Shifa saved her life. By the time Ahmed left, the girl was discharged, “smiling.” Her wounds were so severe that the doctors used some of their gauze allotment on her. But the girl had no choice but to return to her family’s tent, hardly a stable environment for recovery. Even before she was admitted to Al-Shifa, she was “so malnourished.” The return of some amounts of food to the shelves has been little help to her family, who cannot afford to pay inflationary prices. Ahmed, full of worry for the girl, remains in touch. On December 11, Ahmed recorded a four-minute voice note to memorialize her thoughts on her last day …