Over 195 days after the launch of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, Mahmoud Saad al-Din, a Palestinian doctor, used to move between local hospitals in the Gaza Strip to provide essential treatment to the injured and sick and doing what he could to keep them alive. Often, Saad al-Din, along with other doctors, is forced to work long shifts without sleep to deal with significant mass casualty events from each of Israel’s strikes. But the most challenging thing for him, he expresses, is trying to balance his professional and humanitarian duty with his private life and securing the safety of his fam…