Nurse Bilal Abo-Saada and psychologist Amira Al-Farra, Doctors Without Borders staff, try to cope with constant displacements

Doctors Without Borders has posted a short video of reports from Bilal Abo-Saada, a nurse and Amira Al-Farra, a psychologist, about their repeated displacements during the war. 

Al-Farra tells about one time when a person started running down the street in the middle of the night screaming, “Evacuate!” He had just received a phone call from the Israeli army saying they were about to start bombing and everyone must get out of the area immediately. But it was not clear where to go.

Abo-Saada says he has evacuated 11 times during the war. He has an old father who has trouble moving. Now, they are homeless.

Al-Farra thinks, for her, it’s almost eight evacuations. When you leave your home, she says, you leave many memories behind.

AboSaada is trying to save his memories despite so many displacements. “I have a hard drive,” he says, and he takes it out to show it. “It contains all my data, all my documents, all the memories with my friends, with the places we miss at the moment, they are on it. When I am alone, I open these videos and go back to my past and remember how I used to live. It keeps me going in life. It gives me positive energy.”

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