Welcome back to Decontructed for 2024. I'm Ryan Grimm and unfortunately

we're kicking this year off with a close look at the deteriorating

humanitarian situation in Gaza caused by Israel's strategy of

restricting food, fuel, water, and medicine.

Hincoudry, a Palestinian journalist who wrote for us recently recently reports that grocery stores are now effectively

barren and pharmacists are telling her that drugstores will be empty very soon.

She just posted on social media that she woke up with an extreme sore throat, it has no way of getting antibiotics.

Those types of infections, if not treated, can be deadly in otherwise healthy people.

There were around 2.3 million people in Gaza at the start of this war and a shocking 1% of

them have now been killed with the rest at serious risk. We're joined again

today by humanitarian relief activist Ahmed Khan who last year joined us from the

front lines in Ukraine. After the Gaza war broke out he traveled to Rafa to help

organize relief efforts and also tried to help evacuate dual citizens from Gaza.

He's also been a major donor to Biden and to Democrats over the years

and recently made news by announcing he's splitting from Biden's finance team

over Biden's And so can you set the context for people with regard to what you've seen throughout your career?

Can you talk a little bit about the different hot spots, different crisis situations that you've been on the ground

for over the years so that people have an idea

when you talk about what you've seen in this crisis how that compares? Well I've seen a few

people have spoken about their experiences and generally I think all of us don't like to talk about them because they bring up a lot of bad memories but for context I started in the international humanitarian relief

and through Rwandan refugee camps where we had a million refugees in my

early 20s and I had left a job in DC in the Clinton administration to essentially work and

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