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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jason Burke in Jerusalem

‘We are overwhelmed’: southern Gaza’s exhausted doctors forced to leave children to die

Red Cross worker and woman holding small child with bandage round head and arm and burns on face and arm
A member of the Red Cross attempts to attend to an injured small child at the European hospital in Khan Younis on Tuesday. Photograph: Mohammed Talatene/Avalon

In the crowded corridors of the European hospital in Khan Younis, exhausted doctors decide who among the huge influx of patients arriving from the north of Gaza should live or die.

Hundreds of casualties have moved south in recent days after the evacuation of hospitals in Gaza City, overwhelming medical staff already struggling with an acute lack of medicine, diminishing food rations and intermittent power and communications.

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