California doctor travels to Gaza to treat children injured in Israel-Hamas war
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For Dr. Mohammad Subeh, family and faith are everything, but this Ramadan looks different than previous years.
The emergency physician, 39, recently returned home from five weeks in Gaza, where he treats the youngest victims of the war between Israel and Hamas. The coastal territory has been under assault by Israel since a brutal Hamas attack left 1,200 people dead in southern Israel. Dozens of hostages are believed to still be held in Gaza.
The war has left more than 33,000 Palestinians dead, according to international aid agencies, and displaced nearly all of the two million people who live in Gaza. Subeh, a Palestinian refugee who was born in Kuwait and raised in the United States, said that he had never visited Gaza before the war, but felt that he couldn't watch the devastation and do nothing.
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