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Zac de Silva

Gaza in a 'race against time,' Australian doctors say

Doctors providing aid in Gaza are helping people living in tents and other makeshift shelters. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

Australian doctors in Gaza say it could take decades to fully resolve the health impacts of Israel's war on the Palestinian enclave, but are hopeful a shaky ceasefire will allow crucial supplies to enter the strip.

Thienminh Dinh, an emergency physician from Brisbane who works with Doctors Without Borders, said while the war had driven up rates of malnutrition and amputations among Palestinians, the mental and emotional trauma stemming from the conflict was "intergenerational."

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