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Today, will a famine declaration change anything in Gaza?

It is a famine openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war.

Palestinians await assistance as Israel continues its relentless assault.

I'm Kevin Horton, and this is the take.

I'm Dr. Mimi Syed. I'm a board-certified emergency medicine physician out of the U.S., and I'm here in Olympia, Washington.

Dr. Mimi, before we talk about the famine, journalists and others have been killed in a double-tap strike at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunus. And from what I understand it happened on the fourth floor of the hospital building

where the international doctors actually sleep. And what's amazing is that it was captured

live on television.

Now, now, now, now, let me. Yeah, Allah, go headlines are focused on the factable, but they're less focused on the journalists and the other civilians killed, which is understandable,

but they're less focused on the fact that the target here was a hospital.

I guess that's just baked in at this

point. As a doctor who's worked in Gaza, what was your initial reaction to this strike?

I mean, it's horrific. The footage coming out, the things that my medical student and some

other colleagues have sent me is, I just, I have no words for it.

I woke up this morning to dozens of phone calls and messages from there.

And I'm looking at the footage and I recognize every part of that hospital and where they hit.

And it is where we used to stand, where we used to make our phone calls.

That was our common area where we all lived on the fourth floor of Nasser Hospital.

What's even more horrific is some of the footage of the civil defense workers being killed, being targeted while they were rescuing casualties.

And I don't know anything more criminal than that.

It's live footage on camera.

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