Doctor calls Gaza aid sites 'hell on Earth'

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

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Dr. Adil Husain, an American emergency medicine physician, talks about what sorts of injuries he treated while volunteering in Gaza. He described the scenes he witnessed as "apocalyptic." Then, the U.S. is in the middle of hurricane season, but key data used to track the intensity of these storms may soon go offline. We hear from climate scientist Daniel Swain. And, as the Supreme Court finishes up its term, we look at the expected lasting implications of the court's decision to limit the power of lower courts, with law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center Stephen Vladeck.

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0:00.0	Support for here and now anytime comes from MathWorks, creator of MATLAB and Simulink software for technical computing and model-based design.
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0:17.0	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:23.1	Their weaponizing starvation to only lure them in and kill them.
0:28.4	An American doctor who has been treating people in Gaza says he's seen Israeli soldiers shooting people seeking food at AIDS sites.
0:36.9	It's Tuesday, July 1st, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBOR.
0:41.8	I'm Chris Bentley.
0:49.5	Today on the show, the Trump administration delayed plans to stop collecting satellite data
0:55.0	that forecasters used to track storms. But budget cuts could still complicate hurricane season.
1:02.4	Also, we'll look back on another momentous Supreme Court term that saw the justices consolidate
1:09.5	power by overruling lower federal courts
1:12.7	that tried to check the president.
1:14.4	I think the Supreme Court is walking a very, very risky tightrope where it's expecting
1:19.9	people to be able to differentiate between the lower federal courts that the Supreme
1:24.1	Court keeps throwing under the bus and the Supreme Court and its ability
1:28.3	to stand up against the president if and when it chooses to do so.
1:31.4	That's coming up in about 15 minutes.
1:32.9	But first, while much of the world turned away to focus on Israel's war with Iran, Gaza has
1:40.8	continued to suffer. Yesterday, the Israeli military bombed a beachfront cafe, killing
1:47.2	at least 30 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. It was one of the few businesses
1:52.4	still going, 20 months into the war. Israeli forces also shot at people seeking food from a
1:59.5	U.N. aid warehouse in northern Gaza, according to
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