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As Secretary Lincoln inbox on this shift trip to the Middle East, what we need to be watching

for is how much Arab and Israeli officials taken seriously.

The Biden administration hasn't been able to negotiate an end to the war or even a

bath rate to ending the wars.

Secretary of State Tony Blincken is back in the Middle East as Israel threatens to

launch a ground invasion of Rafa where over half of all residents of Gaza have sought refuge.

While the United States has rejected calls for a permanent ceasefire, Blinken is pushing for a new truce and hostage deal.

We'll speak to Huffpost Akbar Shahid Ahmed.

Then we speak to an American doctor who recently returned from Gaza.

What really gets me is not the ones who are, you know, that on arrival unfortunately because

there's nothing me that could have been done for them except to stop the bombing, but

it's the ones that we could have saved. It's that 15-year-old

that had he just gotten to the operating room quick enough, you know, had we not been completely overwhelmed with the overflow of 500 patients in the ER overnight.

We'll speak to Dr. C. Magellani and air recordings she made from inside Al-A-Lofsa Hospital, one of the last functioning hospitals in Central Gaza.

All that and more coming up. up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.

The War and Peace Report.

I'm Neremeen Shech.

As Gazen's brace for an expected Israeli ground invasion of Rafa,

unrelenting attacks across the besieged territory continue as the death toll tops 27,500 people with another 67,000 wounded

after nearly four months of daily attacks. Israeli strikes hit residential

areas, elementary schools, hospitals, and aid distribution sites all within recent days.

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