A woman reacts while holding a pillow as she stands amidst debris outside the site of the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City on October 18, 2023 in the aftermath of an overnight strike there.
A woman reacts while holding a pillow as she stands amidst debris outside the site of the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City. Emily Callahan not pictured.
  • An American nurse working with Doctors Without Borders has returned home after working in Gaza.
  • Emily Callahan told CNN some of her colleagues chose to stay behind, knowing they may die there.
  • "We're going to die saving as many people as we can," Callahan said her colleagues told her.

An American nurse who returned to the US last week after working in Gaza told CNN on Monday that some of her colleagues chose to stay in the region despite knowing they could be killed.