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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Annie Kelly and Hoda Osman

Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens

A view through a porthole style window in a door showing a chaotic scene with patients lying on the floor
The scale of malnutrition in patients is putting a huge strain on an already depleted and exhausted workforce, say doctors. Photograph: Mariam Dagga/AP

Doctors and medical staff in Gaza say their increasing hunger and the lack of available food is beginning to leave them too weak to provide urgent medical care to patients inside hospitals full of malnourished and injured civilians.

Almost a dozen medical staff across the territory have told the Guardian and the Arabic Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) of their increasingly desperate search for food and declining physical health due to hunger.

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