Heba: Hi, my name is Heba, I am a midwife. I was in Gaza for six weeks on a medical mission, and I’m an eyewitness to genocide. Saturday June 8 was my first day at Al-Awda Hospital. It began with an orientation. Then bombs went off around the hospital and the building began shaking. IDF was conducting a daytime raid on the Nusseirat refugee camp next door during which it rescued four hostages at the expense of killing 274 Palestinians. During that first night a pregnant woman came into the hospital to have her baby. She was crying and crying in horror. Her cries didn’t seem like the usual cries of pain during labour. It turned out that her husband and five children all had been murdered in front of her during that raid. I want you to imagine having to give birth under these circumstances. After she had her baby, we had to sedate her in order for her to cope with her pain and trauma. As a healthcare worker, I demand a permanent ceasefire and to enact two-way arms embargo immediately. Canada’s complicity in this genocide must stop.