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Caught between two wars: Palestinian doctor in Ukraine feels weight of family’s pain in Gaza Strip | AP News

Caught between two wars: Palestinian doctor in Ukraine feels weight of family’s pain in Gaza Strip | AP News

In war-torn Ukraine, he is Alya Shabaanovich Gali, a popular doctor with a line of patients waiting to see him. To his family thousands of kilometers (miles) away in the besieged Gaza Strip, he is Alaa Shabaan Abu Ghali, the one who left. For the past 30 years, these identities rarely had cause to merge. (AP video by Vasilisa Stepanenko)

In war-torn Ukraine, he is Alya Shabaanovich Gali, a popular doctor with a line of patients waiting to see him. To his family thousands of kilometers (miles) away in the besieged Gaza Strip, he is Alaa Shabaan Abu Ghali, the one who left. For the past 30 years, these identities rarely had cause to merge. (AP video by Vasilisa Stepanenko)