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"Five hospitals in Aleppo have been bombed."
“五家阿勒波的醫院受到炸彈襲擊。”
That was a text message that I received on a dark winter night in November 2016.
這是我在2016年11月的一個冬季的夜晚收到的信息。
One of them was a children's hospital run by my Syrian colleagues at the Independent Doctors Association, IDA.
其中有一家兒童醫院，是由我在敘利亞的獨立醫學學會(IDA)的同事運營的。
It was the sixth time it had been bombed.
這已經是它第六次遭受到炸彈襲擊了。
I watched in horror heartbreaking footage of the head nurse, Malak, in the aftermath of the bombing,
我看了一段在炸彈襲擊過后令人心碎的驚人片段，護士長馬拉克
grabbing premature babies out of their incubators,
抱起還在保溫箱里的早產兒，
desperate to get them to safety, before she broke down in tears. And I felt devastated.
在她痛哭之前，不顧一切的帶著他們逃到安全的地方。我非常震驚。
Fellow humanitarians and I have spent blood, sweat and tears rebuilding hospitals so that our patients may live, not die.
我和一些人道主義人士投入大量的血、汗、淚，去重建醫院，讓我們的病人活下來，而并不是死去。
And through this work, I made a discovery.
通過這項工作，我有了一個發現。
The reason that people survive in crisis is because of the remarkable work of the people in crisis themselves.
人們在災難中生存的原因，是因為那些身在災難中的人們都做了許多了不起的貢獻。
People survive because of the local doctors, nurses and aid workers who are from the very heart of the affected community,
人們得救是因為那些受影響地區中心地帶的當地的醫生、護士還有救援人員，
the people who dare to work where others can't or won't.
他們敢在一般人不敢的地方工作。
People survive because of people like Malak, who, despite sustaining a severe burns injury in the line of duty,
人們得救是因為有像馬拉克的人，即使在工作中受到嚴重的傷，
the first thing she did when discharged from hospital was to go back caring for small children.
她出院之后做的第一件事是回去照顧孩子們。
From the rubble of death and devastation arise the most gallant and noble human beings.
在死亡的廢墟中，誕生了最勇敢最高尚的人們。
Local humanitarians are the beacons of light in the darkness of war.
當地的人道主義人士，是戰爭黑暗中的燈塔。
