Israel bombs, children die and this British surgeon keeps working
F irst there is the six-year-old girl whose left cheek and shoulder were blown off. Then the two-year-old. The baby girl of one. The three-year-old orphaned boy. The four year old. And the 11-year-old boy who lost all nine of his siblings.
'We always start with the children,' Dr Victoria Rose, 53, says. It is a typical morning in Gaza and, over a makeshift breakfast of peanut butter on digestive biscuits (everything in Gaza is makeshift), the British plastic surgeon is thinking about the day ahead at Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis.
She will operate on 12 cases. 'Most of my list is blast injuries to small children, including amputation of arms, legs and hands,' she says with a sigh. 'It makes me feel really angry but I can't stop and think about it or I won't be able to work.'
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