Wounded Palestinians lie on the floor of Al-Shifa Hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Mohammad Abu Elsebah/dpa
The head of paediatrics at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza warned on Thursday that most of the health facilities in Gaza will soon become "graveyards" if medical supplies are not brought in. "We are lacking essential medical needs to treat the wounded. Imagine today I had to clean wounds for little children using chlorine and mixed it with water," Hussam Abu Safiya told dpa.
He said that most of the injured are children and that they are doing their best to save them. "We are using primitive means. Some operations are being done without anaesthesia. Doctors are even carrying out some...
