Khalid, physical therapist and dad

Khalid, 36, is a physical therapist practicing in northern Gaza and raising five children.

Khalid’s family is one of four that kept video diaries during the first year of the Gaza war for use in a BBC documentary, “One year of war in Gaza: Life, Death, and Hope.”

When the Israeli army orders everyone to relocate to the south, Khalid refuses to go. But he and his family are soon engulfed by the war. No doctors are available, so Khalid sews up wounds — without painkillers since there are none of those, either.

The house next door is destroyed. His children are terrified. They start playing games pretending they are rescuing bomb victims: “He’s bleeding everywhere! Call an ambulance!”

“I washed her so we can operate on her,” says a child, playing with a doll. These are games children should not be playing says Khalid.

“Every night before we go to sleep, we say goodbye to our children in case we don’t wake up, or they don’t,” he says.

Food is cut off and his children chew on weeds. His clinic is demolished — all but two stationary bikes — but Khalid says he will rebuild.

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