As Faisal al-Aswad watched videos of Israeli warplanes and drones unloading their bombs on the Gaza Strip, he was reminded of scenes from his war-torn home in Syria. The indiscriminate bombing of civilians, mass forced displacement and Israel’s razing of hospitals and schools was a grim reminder of how the Assad regime brutally suppressed the 2011 Syrian uprising. Al-Aswad did not want the same brutality and horrors that his people endured to repeat in Gaza, or at least not while he stood idly by. With that feeling of urgency, he and his team at Molham, a Syrian NGO which provides relief aid a…