Dr. Thaer Ahmad, an emergency physician who traveled to Gaza earlier this year, walked out of a meeting with President Biden and other Muslim and Arab leaders and activists.
A Palestinian American doctor who walked out of a meeting with President Biden and other Arab and Muslim leaders and activists on Wednesday said he left 'out of respect for my community.'Dr. Thaer Ahmad, an emergency physician from Chicago who traveled to Gaza earlier this year, told 'Face the Nation' moderator Margaret Brennan the White House meeting was the first time Mr. Biden heard directly from people who had been on the ground in Gaza since Oct. 7.
He said he wasn't initially sure he was going to walk out of the meeting, but that 'when the president didn't even really mention Gaza or Palestine in his first initial comments to me, I felt that I needed to get out and I needed to at least express the hurt and the pain that the entire Palestinian American community is feeling.''I don't speak on their behalf, I'm just one Palestinian American,' Ahmad continued.
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