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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Maira Butt

‘Forty per cent of the people here are kids’: British doctor in Gaza hospital says system ‘will collapse very soon’

Medical Aid Palestine

“It’s like a tsunami of wounded people,” says Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a British surgeon who flew out from London yesterday to join humanitarian efforts in the Gaza strip.

Speaking from Al-Shifa, the largest medical hospital and complex in the region, he says he has seen “nothing like the absolute devastation” he has witnessed in the last 72 hours.

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