U.S. Doctor Shares Messages She Got from Friend in Gaza Facing Starvation

Dr. Mimi Syed is an emergency medicine physician who's been on two medical missions in Gaza working in hospitals that were under Israeli siege and was just denied reentry into Gaza, mere hours before she was scheduled to travel there for a third medical mission. Syed was planning to bring in a small amount of aid to the besieged enclave. "As a doctor, I shouldn't have to smuggle in baby formula," she says. "I shouldn't have to smuggle in protein."

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