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_Beyond anything I_ve ever seen before__ Doctor details devastation in Gaza(MP3_160K) · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: And now I want to turn to the humanitarian crisis
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  Speaker 1: in Gaza, where chaos continues to swirl around newly opened
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  Speaker 1: distribution centers following months of an Israeli blockade. This new
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  Speaker 1: video highlights the desperation for these Palestinians clamoring for basic
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  Speaker 1: food and supplies at this World Food Program warehouse, the
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  Speaker 1: UN saying it was broken into by quote hordes of
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  Speaker 1: hungry people before the blockade. Of course, others were able
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  Speaker 1: to get in and see this damage in the desperation
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  Speaker 1: in first hand. Doctor Clayton Dalton among them. He's an
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  Speaker 1: emergency physician. He traveled into Gaza as part of the
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  Speaker 1: UN's medical aid team. His experiences were documented in a
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  Speaker 1: video diary and calling for The New Yorker entitled Hospitals
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  Speaker 1: in Ruin and doctor Clayton Dalton is joining us now.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for taking the time, Doctor Dalton.
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  Speaker 1: You describe the devastation you saw in Gaza like nothing
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  Speaker 1: you've ever seen before, given your background as an emergency physician,
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  Speaker 1: and walk us through what that means for you.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to agree with you, and I thank you.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to describe, and I mean every aspect of
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  Speaker 2: the healthcare delivery system was touched by destruction in some way.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't the question of whether or not components had
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  Speaker 2: been damaged or facilities had been damaged. It was just
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  Speaker 2: a matter of degree. Some of them were functional in
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  Speaker 2: the midst of the rubbles, some of them had been
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  Speaker 2: completely destroyed, absolutely beyond repair. Supplies were limited. Gods was
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  Speaker 2: in short supply, Antibiotics were in short supply. Everything that
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  Speaker 2: you would need to take care of patients in this
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  Speaker 2: environment towards in short supply. And this was during the ceasefires,
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  Speaker 2: this was when medical aid was actually coming in, and
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  Speaker 2: still it wasn't enough. So I've been in touch with
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  Speaker 2: people that I worked alongside who are Palatain healthcare workers
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  Speaker 2: who are still there, and they say that it's just
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  Speaker 2: so much worse, which is hard for me to imagine.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this was already beyond anything that I'd ever
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  Speaker 2: ever seen before. The circumstances they're working in are just
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  Speaker 2: so difficult.
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  Speaker 1: What brought you to Goza? What inspired you to go there?
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  Speaker 2: A sense of being able to make some contribution, to
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  Speaker 2: be able to support them medically, to be able to
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  Speaker 2: tell their story. That was actually the thing that people
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  Speaker 2: asked me to do. When I was there, the healthcare
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  Speaker 2: workers I worked alongside, they were so glad to have
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  Speaker 2: us there just to help medically. But so many people,
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  Speaker 2: dozens of people, said, please just tell the world about
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  Speaker 2: what is happening here. Tell them what you see, tell
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  Speaker 2: them what's happening here. And that's what I've tried to do.
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  Speaker 1: In your New Yorker video diary, there was a doctor
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  Speaker 1: who was giving you an inside tour of the damage ICU,
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  Speaker 1: who points out medical equipment that had appeared to have
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  Speaker 1: been systematically disabled with bullet holes. I want to play
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  Speaker 1: a portion of that.
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  Speaker 3: He took me up into the ICU and showed me
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  Speaker 3: a number of different pieces of medical equipment, and all
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  Speaker 3: of them seemed to have a.
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  Speaker 4: Bullet hole in the screen. He was like, I don't understand,
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  Speaker 4: and I get that. I'm also was struggling to understand.
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  Speaker 4: This didn't seem like collateral damage to me. You know,
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  Speaker 4: these were specific pieces of medical equipment that seemed to
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  Speaker 4: have been systematically disabled.
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  Speaker 1: The IDF denies that they specifically targeted medical equipment, But
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  Speaker 1: what was your takeaway from this?
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  Speaker 2: This is horrible. I mean, I wasn't there when these
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  Speaker 2: machines were destroyed. I don't know exactly what happened. I
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  Speaker 2: can say that the implication that was shared with me
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  Speaker 2: by doctor Moronswulton, who you can see in the video,
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  Speaker 2: who's the director of the hospital, was that he discovered
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  Speaker 2: he discovered this damage after soldiers had been active in
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  Speaker 2: hospital facility, and the Idea did deny that they destroy
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  Speaker 2: medical equipment in this way, but it was extremely disturbing.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard for me to understand any sort of justification
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  Speaker 2: for this kind of targeted destruction.
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  Speaker 1: So much destruction and chaos that I know you witness
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  Speaker 1: firsthand that we've seen in the images, but you also
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  Speaker 1: describe witnessing moments of normalcy, seeing a family congregate over tea,
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  Speaker 1: children laughing and playing and even flying kites. These have
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  Speaker 1: to be incredibly dark times for them. And yet what resilience,
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  Speaker 1: what perseverance, What did you learn about the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the people there? What do our viewers need to know?
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  Speaker 2: It was extremely humbling. I saw this in the healthcare
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  Speaker 2: workers that I worked alongside and the civilians who were
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  Speaker 2: still trying to make the life in this place. They
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  Speaker 2: were kind, they were welcoming, they were generous. They would
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  Speaker 2: always be sure that we ate first, which made me
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  Speaker 2: extremely uncomfortable, but there was no negotiating that. And there's
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  Speaker 2: there's so many children. Nearly half the population of Gaza,
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  Speaker 2: which is about two million people, is children, and they're
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  Speaker 2: just finding a way to live as children in the rubble.
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  Speaker 2: They're finding ways to play and to laugh. It's what
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  Speaker 2: children do. I think it's it was so important to
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  Speaker 2: me to remember that. You know, we're exposed to these
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  Speaker 2: scenes of destruction of famine, and it's so important that
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  Speaker 2: we stay aware and conscious of what's happening there. But
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  Speaker 2: we also have to remember that these are people just
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  Speaker 2: like us and they're trying to live their lives here.
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  Speaker 2: I think we have to remember the humanity of the
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  Speaker 2: people who were here.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Clayton Dalton, thank you so much for sharing what
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  Speaker 1: you witnessed, sharing your reporting and first hand accounts of
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  Speaker 1: what you saw. It's so important and we really value
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  Speaker 1: your time today. Thank you, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: An good to be with you.