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With relentless energy, Mohamed Tawfiq, an Egyptian surgeon, moves between the corridors of the European Gaza Hospital to check on his patients. Tawfiq, a consultant in retinal surgery, performed 33 cataract surgeries at the Gaza European Hospital in the span of 13 hours. “It was a great achievement, amid the current difficult conditions, to reach this level of our work inside the war-torn Gaza as we used to perform ten surgeries a day,” Tawfiq said to The New Arab. “Starting from 1 October, we have been working on operations to remove shrapnel from eyes, eye and retina, which means that they …

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