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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Croft

Bombed, starving and orphaned: The horrific plight of children arriving in Gaza’s hospitals alone

At the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, trauma nurse Elidalis Burgos is sitting with the lifeless body of one-year-old Khaled.

As medics around her rush to treat their next victim, she asks who will take the baby boy to the morgue. “No one,” she is told. Doctors have named him Khaled as he has no known family.

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