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Opinion: Remembering Lives Lost In The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

NPR's Scott Simon remembers some of the more than 200 people killed during the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Palestinian people walk past a destroyed tower. (Photo by Ahmed Zakot/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dr. Ayman Abu al-Ouf worked into the small hours last Sunday at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where he was chief of internal medicine, trained medical students and supervised a ward for COVID-19 patients.

A former colleague the BBC, "I would say

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