A Grassroots Group in Tucson Is 3D-Printing Tourniquets to Send to Lebanon

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A Grassroots Group in Tucson Is 3D-Printing Tourniquets to Send to Lebanon

A small non-hierarchical collective in Arizona is using an open-source design to create life-saving tourniquets.

By Ella Fassler , TRUTHOUT
Published May 29, 2026

In late April, the humanitarian aid organization Anera received a peculiar donation of 250 3D-printed tourniquets. Even more unusual was the fact they were manufactured by a small non-hierarchical collective using an open-source design on the other end of the world, in Tucson, Arizona.

The shipment arrived in Lebanon after more than 100 Israeli strikes wounded at least 1,000 people in less than 10 minutes on April 8. The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that Lebanon’s hospitals may run out of life-saving supplies within days.

“The day after [these strikes], the hospitals and ministry launched a call for support because items were out of stock already,” Rima Kamal, a Lebanon-based medical donations program coordinator working for Anera, told Truthout. “Items that were supposed to last for one or two months were directly depleted because the hospitals weren’t expecting to support that many patients.”

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