Dr. Mimi Syed is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Washington and Washington State University. In 2024, she completed multiple medical missions to Gaza, treating critically wounded civilians at al-Aqsa and Nasser Hospitals during mass-casualty events.

In this episode, Dr. Syed joins PalTalk to talk about what she witnessed on the ground - including a documented pattern of children arriving with single gunshot wounds attributed to IDF-operated "quadcopter" drones. She's a co-author of the Costs of War report Lethal Precision Without Accountability: Israeli Government "Quadcopter" Use in Gaza, alongside Wes J. Bryant, Charles O. Blaha, and Stephanie Savell - an interdisciplinary analysis combining medical, forensic, tactical, and legal evidence.

Dr. Syed is also the author of the new memoir The Blood on My Hands: A Memoir of a Moral Catastrophe, co-written with Dr. Helen Hwaihi, a Palestinian physician she served alongside in Gaza - a raw, firsthand account of bearing witness to a humanitarian catastrophe.

This is a conversation about medicine, morality, and the cost of silence.

📖 Get the book: The Blood on My Hands: A Memoir of a Moral Catastrophe by Mimi Syed & Helen Hwaihi https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHL1F5RG?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback

📄 Read the report: Lethal Precision Without Accountability (Costs of War, Brown University) https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/Quadcopter