Dr. Adam Hamawy, a retired Lt. Colonel who served in Iraq, discusses what it's like working in Gaza's hosptials. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs in Iraq when a rocket-propelled grenade struck the helicopter she was piloting has credited Dr. Adam Hamawy with saving her life. Hamawy points out in normal warfare the patients are predominantly soldiers, but in Gaza it's overwhelmingly civilians and children being shot, bombed and injured.

• Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.
• Emailing Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.

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