In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, Palestinian clown doctor, 24-year-old Majed Kaloub, entertains children at the Al-Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza City. Kaloub visits three medical centers in the Gaza Strip a week and spends two days at Al-Rantisi, a specialized hospital for children with chronic illnesses. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, Palestinian clown doctors, 24-year-old Majed Kaloub, top center, and 33-year-old Alaa Miqdad, bottom center, perform for children during their visit at the Al-Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza City. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, 33-year-old Palestinian clown doctor Alaa Miqdad, left, entertains children at Al-Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza City. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, Palestinian clown doctors 24-year-old Majed Kaloub, top right, and 33-year-old Alaa Miqdad, right, perform for children during their visit at the waiting room at Al-Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza City. Majed and Alaa were not trained in hospital clowning, but they grew up in a place that saw three large-scale military conflicts between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers in the past decade, let alone dozens of smaller rounds of violence. Both visit three medical centers in the Gaza Strip a week and spend two days at Al-Rantisi, a specialized hospital for children with chronic illnesses. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, 33-year-old Palestinian clown doctor Alaa Miqdad, prepares himself before performing for children at Al-Rantisi hospital in Gaza City. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, Palestinian clown doctor Alaa Miqdad, left, entertains 13-year-old Mohammed Al-Qunfod who suffers from dialysis, in the department of kidney diseases at Al-Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza City. Miqdad and his partner visit three medical centers in the Gaza Strip a week and spend two days at Al-Rantisi, a specialized hospital for children with chronic illnesses. “As much as we can, we try to let the child respond to us to reach his heart; his insides”. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, Palestinian clown doctors, 24-year-old Majed Kaloub, right, and 33-year-old Alaa Miqdad, center, entertain children at Al-Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza City. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, a child laughs during the visit of Palestinian clown doctors, Majed Kaloub, and Alaa Miqdad, at the Al-Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza Cit. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, 33-year-old Palestinian clown doctor Alaa Miqdad, bottom center, and 24-year-old Majed Kaloub, left, entertain Shahed Mohammed, who suffers from gland disorders, in the department of kidney diseases at Al-Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza City. After and even during the war, Majed and Alaa worked on relieving children who suffered trauma due to the airstrikes. They performed in damaged neighborhoods and temporary shelters. From here, they say, the idea of medical clowning came to target children groaning on hospital beds in a Gaza starved of counseling techniques.The clowns visit three medical centers in the Gaza Strip a week and spend two days at Al-Rantisi, a specialized hospital for children with chronic illnesses. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, Palestinian clown doctors entertain children in the department of kidney diseases at Al-Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza City. Clown doctors Majed Kaloub, 24, and Alaa Miqdad, a 33-year-old dwarf, are employed by an international NGO into unusual places: hospitals, especially the pediatric ones; a game-changing shift that granted them steady work at best, but rendered them in need for psychosocial support as a side effect of the job. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, Palestinian clown doctor Alaa Miqdad, center, gives 3-year-old Abdallah Saleem a balloon, in the department of kidney diseases at Al-Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza City. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, 33-year-old Palestinian clown doctor Alaa Miqdad, left, entertains 3-year-old patient Yaqin Shawaf, who suffers from dialysis, in the department of kidney diseases at Al-Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza City. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, March 17, 2016 photo, 33-year-old Palestinian clown doctor Alaa Miqdad, left, entertains 3-year-old patient Yaqin Shawaf, who suffers from dialysis, in the department of kidney diseases at Al-Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza City. (Photo by Adel Hana/AP Photo)