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Warning: This episode contains descriptions of injuries and death.

As Israel’s war on Hamas enters its sixth week, hospitals in Gaza have found themselves on the front lines. Hospitals have become a refuge for the growing number of civilians fleeing the violence, but one that has become increasingly dangerous as Israel’s military targets what it says are Hamas fighters hiding inside and beneath them.

Today, three doctors working in the Gaza Strip describe what the war looks like from inside their hospitals and what they are doing to keep up with the flood of patients.

Guests: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Dr. Suhaib Alhamss and Dr. Ebraheem Matar, three doctors working in the Gaza Strip.

Background reading: 

• Gazans under bombardment have described a surge of severely injured children entering hospitals, doctors operating without anesthesia and morgues overflowing with bodies.
• Israeli officials say that Hamas has built a complex under Al Shifa, a major Gaza hospital. Hamas denies that it is operating from beneath the hospital, whose patients face dire conditions amid power cuts.

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When Hamas terrorists attacked on October 7th, Kfar Aza suffered some of the worst casualties. The kibbutz is less than two miles from the border with Gaza. Daily Wire correspondent Kassy Dillon returns to Kfar Aza to report on the atrocities. Get the facts first on Morning Wire.

Warning: this episode contains descriptions of death.

In the week since Israel suffered the deadliest day in its modern history, fresh accounts have emerged in village after village of just how extreme and widespread the violence was.

Today we hear the story of one man at the epicenter of that violence: Golan Abitbul, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, where more than 100 civilians were killed.

Guest: Golan Abitbul, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, in southern Israel.

Background reading: 

• Video: a son’s conversation with his mother as gunmen attacked her kibbutz.
• The long wait for help as massacres unfolded in Israel.
• Follow the latest updates on the Israel-Hamas war.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.