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00:00Gaza is unique in a few ways. The most obvious way is just the number of children that are injured now. Obviously, Gaza is a half-child population. Half of the people in Gaza are under 18. But nevertheless, the injuries to children are widespread, and it's extremely difficult to deal with them. That's one major way.
00:25The second way is that the health care system itself is just under direct attack. And like I said, there's no close parallel to that in history that I can think of. Every hospital in Gaza has been attacked. Every hospital in Gaza has been forcibly emptied. Every hospital in Gaza is starved of supplies. Something like 5% of the health care workforce has been killed, maybe more than that. It's hard to know exact numbers.
00:53The largest hospital in most third-world countries have one large hospital that provides all of the advanced, the really first-world-level health care. In Gaza, that was Shifa Hospital, which basically doesn't exist anymore.
01:11It used to be a 750-bed medical complex. So it would have been the seventh biggest hospital in the state of California. It's a huge place. It had all sorts of advanced modalities of care, all sorts of international subspecialists walking around. It's just rubble now.
01:26There's a small emergency room that's functioning, and I think there's one operating room that they set up in a dentist's office.
01:33So it basically doesn't exist anymore, which means the biggest hospital now is Nasser.
01:38And Nasser is now basically the only functional hospital of any significance in the Gaza Strip, as far as I can tell.
01:45These things change day-to-day, unfortunately.
01:48But, you know, European hospital, where I was last year, is now in Israeli troop barracks.
01:52They're digging up the entire place, trying to find some tunnel that they can claim was under the hospital.
01:57Okay.
01:59And so, yes, that's another way.
02:01A third way is that the entire population is seriously malnourished, which makes surgery pretty difficult.
02:06You know, I can cut anybody open, but if their body has no protein, if they don't have any access to nutrition,
02:10then it makes it very hard for them to heal anything.
02:15Fourthly, Gaza's entire population is homeless, like virtually all of it.
02:20The not only homeless, but displaced and often displaced 10, 15, 20 times.
02:26So, again, you know, when you combine a child population that was half refugees,
02:30there were actually more than half refugees, about 70 percent refugees before October 7th.
02:35All of them are now homeless and displaced.
02:37All of them are hungry to the point that people are actually dying of starvation.
02:40And it's also one of the most wounded populations in the world with one of the most degraded health care systems in the world.
02:48You can see how it's a unique place.
02:50You can see how this backfield may be used.
02:58You can see how it's fine.
03:03It's fine, but that's fine.
03:06You can see how it's full.
03:06You can see how it's a template.
03:10I mean, I want to muggy, but wait until you get 30 seconds time.