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Dr. Adam Hamawy, a U.S. doctor and former U.S. Army combat surgeon who is currently in Gaza, says he has "never in my career witnessed the level of atrocities and targeting of my medical colleagues as I have in Gaza."
Hamawy told NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben that he and his colleagues were supposed to depart from Gaza earlier this week but were prevented from leaving. "We were told that our safe corridor had not been cleared, and that we were not supposed to leave the compound. If we did, it would be at our own risk, and we would be legitimate targets" for Israel's military.
Hamawy was part of a team of health care professionals from the Palestinian American Medical Association who traveled to the Gaza Strip on May 1 to assist at one of the few functioning hospitals left in the area, the European Hospital near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.