‘It’s mostly women and children’: Hong Kong surgeon speaks of treating wounded Palestinians in Gaza
Gaza is unlike other war zones across the world and the wounded from the ongoing Israel-Hamas war – now approaching its fifth month – are mostly civilian women and children, a Hong Kong doctor who just returned from a humanitarian mission in the region has said. Over a million Palestinians are now concentrated around the southern city of Rafah which Israel bombed over the weekend after previously declaring it a “safe zone.” Israel’s military advance has killed at least 27,200 people in Gaza, according to its health ministry, with the International Court of Justice ruling last month that it is ...