coming up, we will speak to the palestinian-american poet and physician fady joudah.israel has killed dozens of his family members in gaza in the past month. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: as we continue to look at israel's bombardment of gaza, we are joint in houston, texas, by fady joudah. he is an award-winning palestinian-american writer and poet as well as a physician. he has translated several collections of poetry from arabic into english, including work by the renowned palestinian poet mahmoud darwish. dozens of his family members have been killed in gaza since october 7. his recent piece for lithub is titled "a palestinian meditation in a time of annihilation." welcome to democracy now! first of all, our condolences on the loss of your family members. if you could say a little bit about those family members and how you and your family here in the u.s. are keeping in touch with people who remain in gaza? >> thank you. we have had more than 50 o