Desperately trying to save children at one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals.

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Dr Seema Jilani is a paediatrician who has just evacuated from al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza, where fighting has intensified. Tom Bennett hears her moving account of severe injuries, depleting supplies, and how she fought to let those she couldn’t save die with dignity. An 11-year-old girl with deep tissue burns so extensive that her extremities have stiffened, screaming from her hospital bed through lungs choked by smoke.
A one-year-old infant who endured a traumatic amputation of his leg still wearing his bloodstained nappy.

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