Dr. Mohamed Kuziez, 35, is bragging about one of his favorite patients. “She is fierce,” the Denver pediatrician says, fishing out his phone like a proud dad.

He volunteered in Gaza for three weeks earlier this year, which is why his phone also contains images of decaying corpses in the wreckage of a building, a lineup of torched Palestinian ambulances, and human organs, red and incongruous on surgical sheeting, outside of the bodies they once served. He also photographed a message he scrawled in the dust left on a wall, after a missile struck al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza: “With love from Colorado,” it says.

Finally, Kuziez locates the photo of his 7-year-old patient Habiba, her hair glossy, a smile lighting up her face, and “Hello Kitty” earrings in both ears. Her name means “the little on

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