Since the latest “ceasefire” began in October 2025, Israel has continued to bombard Gaza and has killed more than 1,200 people, United Nations experts reported earlier this month.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more recently rejected President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace agreement with Hamas for Israeli troops to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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“The burden has really continued to devastate the healthcare system in general.
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So you’re hearing from colleagues every day.
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They don’t have the materials that they need to serve their patients,” Dr. Thaer Ahmad tells The Intercept Briefing.
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“They don’t have even the basic sort of guarantee that there is a cloak of security allowing them to operate in the traditional ways that they would like to.”
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This week on the podcast, Intercept reporter Jonah Valdez speaks to Ahmad, an emergency medicine physician and humanitarian who has provided medical relief in conflict zones including Gaza, and director Poh Si Teng about their new documentary “American Doctor.”
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It follows three U.S. physicians from three different states who volunteer to enter Gaza to provide emergency medical care as best they can, with the insufficient supplies they have, to save lives — under the threat, as healthcare workers and hospitals have repeatedly been the target of strikes, of losing theirs.
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The American doctors were not just targeted by the Israeli military, however.
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Upon returning home and trying to share the atrocities they had witnessed in Gaza, they were “pummeled,” says Teng, in interviews with mainstream media outlets and ignored by lawmakers in Congress.
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“There’s this refusal to acknowledge what most American people are interested in — and that is money out of the Middle East in terms of military and wars, and into our communities here, into healthcare, and into some of the services that we are deprived of, that, for example, Israeli society is able to provide for their citizens: free education, free healthcare,” says Ahmad.
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“We don’t even have that here, and yet we’re still providing a significant amount of aid.”
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Teng says, “For everybody who’s trying to do something in this moment, it’s not like as individuals we have no agency.
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We do.
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But it’s also important to remind people of the systems in place that make it very hard for us to do the right thing.
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If there was any path forward or a glimmer of inspiration, I felt, follow these doctors.”
For more, listen to the full conversation of The Intercept Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.
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I’m Jonah Valdez, a reporter at The Intercept who covers politics and foreign policy.
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A senior Hamas official tells the BBC it has agreed to disarm in Gaza.
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President Trump says he’s doing something long considered impossible: disarming Hamas, forging a stable peace, and beginning a withdrawal of Israeli forces.
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Let’s go back to July.
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President Donald Trump announces that his so-called Board of Peace has reached a deal with Hamas to disarm, a primary goal of the ceasefire agreement.
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Donald Trump: Most people said that would be a deal that would be undoable.
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JV: By August, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the plan and the demand to withdraw troops from parts of Gaza.
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It’s worth reminding Israel controls nearly 70 percent of Gaza’s territory.
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President Trump’s Board of Peace says it’s in ongoing discussions with Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Mr. Trump’s new Gaza peace plan in yet another public break with the White House.
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BBC: Saying it won’t withdraw from the territory until Hamas gives up all its weapons.
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Israel rejects the 15-point plan.
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The IDF will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is disarmed.
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Since the latest ceasefire began in October 2025, Israel has continued to bombard Gaza and has killed more than 1,200 people, according to U.N. experts.
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In all, since the start of the war in October 2023, at least 70,000 people have been killed in Gaza and 171,000 wounded.
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That doesn’t count the untold numbers buried under rubble.
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Still, the Israeli government has tight restrictions on who and what aid enters Gaza.
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A new documentary called “American Doctor” follows three American physicians who travel to Gaza to provide medical care and save lives where healthcare workers and hospitals have been targeted.
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When the three American doctors — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — enter Gaza, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
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[Clip from “American Doctor” plays]
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Dr. Thaer Ahmad: I want to take you through what Gaza looks like when a hospital is totally overwhelmed.
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As a Jewish physician, I knew nothing about Gaza.
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I thought everybody out here were nothing but terrorists.
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We’re just asking that hospitals not be targeted.
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We need a political solution.
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