Humanity have been trapped and floundering under significant pressure. An overwhelming sense of confinement worldwide is now an undeniable truth. The idea of our world being governed by madmen, ‘an elite group’ devastating the world and the humanity, goes far beyond ‘a conspiracy theory’. Countries and cities are now becoming huge prisons controlled by advanced artificial intelligence technologies. All that humanity has accumulated in terms of virtue are getting meaningless. Over all those painful circumstances, there is also the severe letdown caused by Gaza genocide that has been going on for two years. Child bodies covered in blood, hopeless fathers, dead women robbed of all their dignity and people hunted by oppressors in a real battue…

Human is virtually being created again in Gaza. Mother is being redefined. Innocence of children is being recollected in a painful way. And manhood, reaching out to the fallen, helping the poor, running to the wounded and the broken. Manhood is being reborn in Gaza. The manhood who helps risking his life, is devoted, runs to death for saving his family, city, country and humanity while on the other hand people are charged not to look even when a child is butchered right in front of them. Here it is the devotion oppressors have not been able to defeat for two years.

Without a doubt, there comes doctors at the top of this magnificent dedication which almost every profession in Gaza is a part of. Dr. Adnan Al- Bursh, Dr. Omar Ferwana, Dr. Sufyan Tayeh and more than 1400[1] dedicated and brilliant healthcare workers whose names we couldn’t fit here —each of them becoming a legend. In this writing, brief excerpts in Dr. Ahmed Mehanna, one of those dedicated and magnificent people, are presented with respects to his memory. It will hopefully become a beacon of hope regarding the issues ‘becoming human and remaining as one’ to our world which becomes more and more confined and stifled.

Dr. Ahmed Mehanna was born in Gaza on August 19, 1974. Like the majority of Gaza’s population, Ahmed was born into a poor refugee family. As the eldest of six siblings, he never had the chance to simply be a child and always bore responsibilities. While supporting his family in the Al-Rimal Al-Shamali neighborhood of Gaza, he continued his education. He completed his primary education at Deir Latin School, his preparatory studies at Salah Al-Din School, and his secondary education at Palestine School.

His high school years corresponded to the First Intifada which seriously effected his educational life. His family faced financial hardship due to political situations and their effects on his father’s work life. However, his family insisted on his pursuit of education. Despite those hardships Ahmed acquired good academic achievements. Life in university was harder due to the high cost. His mother had always envisioned him as a doctor. The family really pushed the limits to make this dream come true and Ahmed, after many sacrifices, got into Saint Petersburg University in Russia. After a rather successful academic life he graduated with honors.

After returned to Gaza, he started his career as a doctor in Shifa Hospital. Nevertheless, one year into his mission his father passed away and this made his responsibilities intensify. He became the only provider of his family. He provided a family of 6 children and their education for a long time until their marriage. In this........

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