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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A doctor from Little Rock is back home from a medical mission in Gaza.
Dr. Ahmad Yousaf is a pediatrician and internal medicine doctor in Arkansas. For the last month, he's volunteered at a Gaza hospital trying to save lives in the war between Hamas and Israel.
"I wasn't prepared for that emotionally, mentally or from a medical skills perspective," Yousaf said.
He said he landed back in Arkansas Thursday night and was met with a warm welcome from family and friends with hugs and signs.
He is happy to be reunited with his wife and three kids, but he said there are two feelings he felt when leaving Gaza: guilt and that he has to go back.
He said the guilt comes from a feeling of "betrayal" because he got to leave but those there didn't have that option.
Yousaf said he's "been on many other medical missions but never one where the population we were treating was trapped."
In Gaza, Yousaf said he was faced with the constant sound of bombs, and drones and the sight of injured and lifeless people, describing it as a "zombie apocalypse."
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