UK surgeon’s account of month working in Gaza hospital

The surgeon, who has previously worked in other conflict zones, said it was “unlike anything that I’ve ever seen before”.

He recalled: “It was a complete shock. The moment you cross the border into Gaza it’s as if an atomic bomb has dropped.

“All you see is rubble for miles around. You’re driving for 30 minutes through this landscape, there’s hardly anybody around, just a few armed looters.

“And then you come to the central area of Gaza where you’ve got a million and a half people just crammed together in a very, very small area, with so-called tents on every piece of land available.

“We were dealing mainly with trauma victims… people who were missing their arms, their legs.

“I think one of the things that shocked me most was the fact that this just continued day after day and has been going on like this for a year now.

“There was no real let-up. Pretty much every day we’d be dealing with these casualties.”