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Hey, everyone, I'm Rie Makhreys.

Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.

And I'm Kimberly Adams, still hanging out in Aspen in a conference room.

Thank you, everybody, for joining us.

It's Wednesday, July 30th.

But before we get into today's show, we want to give you a heads up that we're going to be talking about a sensitive topic, what's happening in Gaza, specifically the severe humanitarian crisis. The UN said this week that in Gaza, two out of three of the

official famine thresholds have been reached according to their integrated food security

phase classification platform, and that there's

mounting evidence that, quote, widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a rise

in hunger-related deaths, which is the third famine indicator. Now, this story obviously strikes close to home for us here, because as many of you will know,

Rima on her podcast, this is uncomfortable, has talked about Gaza and her family there.

So, Rima, first of all, how are you?

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