Kids Under Fire in Gaza
Reveal
The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
4.7 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes and came to a shocking conclusion: In one month, the ER physician had treated at least 18 children with gunshots to the head or chest. And that’s only the patients she had time to make a note of.
“They were children under the age of 12,” she says. “That's something I saw every single day, multiple times a day, for the whole four weeks that I was there.”
Syed’s not the only one. Other physicians who’ve worked in Gaza report seeing similar cases on a regular basis, suggesting a disturbing pattern. The doctors allege that members of the Israeli military may be deliberately targeting children.
This week on Reveal, in partnership with Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines, we follow Syed from Gaza to the halls of Congress and the United Nations, as she joins a movement of doctors appealing to US and international policymakers to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal. I'm Al-Letzin. |
| 0:10.0 | Like many Americans, Mimi Syed followed Israel's response to the October 7th Hamas attacks through videos on Instagram and TikTok. |
| 0:23.9 | This part of the world was foreign to her. |
| 0:26.5 | Shamefully, I didn't know anything about the history. |
| 0:28.8 | I didn't know anything about the occupation and things going on there. |
| 0:32.7 | But she became glued to her phone. |
| 0:35.3 | Mimi kept scrolling, watching post after post. |
| 0:38.4 | Then, in the summer of last year, she saw one image too many. |
| 0:43.2 | There was a child that was pulled out of rubble and just like a rag doll and was completely |
| 0:47.4 | dead. |
| 0:48.4 | I remember driving in the morning to work and I said to my husband, hey, babe, I got to talk |
| 0:52.5 | to you about something. |
| 0:53.5 | I texted him and he messaged me back. He goes,, I got to talk to you about something. I texted him. |
| 0:54.7 | And he messaged me back. |
| 0:56.2 | He goes, you're going to Gaza, aren't you? |
| 0:59.8 | I have these skills that this population needs. |
| 1:02.4 | I need to show up. |
| 1:04.0 | Mimi is a board-certified emergency room doctor |
| 1:06.9 | who knows how to help in a very practical way. |
| 1:10.2 | There was a medical obligation on my part |
| 1:12.3 | just as a physician, you know, there is a need. At the time, doctors were one of the only groups |
| 1:18.5 | consistently let into Gaza. Israel wasn't allowing outside observers from groups like human rights |
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