>> THE PROBLEM IS THE SHEER SIZE OF THE CALAMITY THAT HAS BEEN FALLEN GAZA.

6500 WOUNDED, AND SIX DAYS PUT IN PLACE WITH A TOTAL OF THAT CAPACITY IS 2500.

THIS IS COMPLETELY OVERWHELMING THE HEALTH SYSTEM.

WHICH IS ALREADY ON ITS KNEES AT THE END OF 15 YEARS OF SIEGE.

THE HEALTH SYSTEM IS UNABLE TO COPE .

WE ARE DOWN ON CONSUMABLES , ON THE VERY MATERIAL THAT WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO TREAT PATIENTS WHETHER THEY ARE DRESSINGS, OR ANESTHETICS EQUIPMENT .

OR DISPOSABLE.

AND THE CAPACITY , THE OPERATING ROOM CAPACITY OF MOST HOSPITALS IN GAZA IS UNABLE TO COPE WITH THE SHEER NUMBER OF PATIENTS WHO NEED TO BE TAKEN TO THE OPERATING ROOMS, AND THE PATIENTS WHO NOW ARE CRITICALLY ILL AND NEED INTENSIVE CARE UNITS.

>> DR. , CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT IS THE EFFECT, AND ARE YOU FEELING IT YET?

OF THE BLOCKADE AS DEFENSE MINISTER ANNOUNCED A FEW DAYS AGO AS I WAS JUST TALKING TO A SENIOR GOVERNMENT ADVISER ABOUT.

YOU KNOW, THE FOOD, THE FUEL, THE WATER.

DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH WATER?

DO PEOPLE HAVE FOOD?

IS IT GOING TO RUN OUT?

>> SO, THE THING THAT YOU LOOK AT MOST WHEN YOU'RE IN THE HOSPITAL IS THE ABSENCE OF BASIC MEDICAL NEEDS.

EQUIPMENT THAT YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO TREAT THE PATIENT.

ALSO ALL OF THE HOSPITALS NOW ARE COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON GENERATORS FOR ELECTRICITY.

AND DIESEL IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT IS NOW NOT COMING IN AS A RESULT OF THIS TOTAL BLOCKADE.

YOU SEE THESE WATER TANKS THAT ARE BEING DELIVERED TO HOMES AND TO HOSPITALS , AND ALL AROUND THE CLOCK EVEN THOUGH THERE IS CONTINUOUS BOMBING.

THE MOMENT IS NOT SHORT, BUT THERE IS OVER 200,000 PEOPLE DISPLACED .

A LOT OF THEM, OF THE HOSPITAL .

GAZA'S MAIN HOSPITAL OR WITH RELATIVE, THIS PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR HOMES, HAVE LOST THEIR ABILITY TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES AND FEED FOR THEMSELVES.

AND SO, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS A CATASTROPHE , A MAN-MADE CATASTROPHE THAT IS ALMOST LIKE A PERFECT STORM .

PEOPLE ARE DISPLACED, THEIR HOMES ARE DESTROYED.

A CRIPPLED HEALTH SYSTEM AS A RESULT OF THE SIEGE, AND NUMBERS BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM TO DEAL WITH.

>> DR. HASSAN, I CAN ASK YOU SOMETHING?

YOU CAME IN SOMEHOW INTO GAZA FROM THE UK, I'M ASSUMING FROM THE EGYPTIAN SIDE , THE RIGHT BORDER.

AND YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW ISRAEL HAS TOLD PEOPLE TO LEAVE, JUST LEAVE , SEEK SHELTER, LEAVE.

IS THERE TWO WAY TRAFFIC?

ARE PEOPLE ABLE TO LEAVE WITH YOU ABLE TO COME IN.

>> SO, I WAS PART OF ALASKA PEOPLE THAT KIND OF GOT IN ON MONDAY MORNING.

EARLY HOURS OF MONDAY MORNING.

AND I THINK SOON AFTER THEY BOMBED THE AREA AROUND AND FORTH IT SHUT.

THAT HAS NOT BEEN ANYBODY IN, AND CERTAINLY NO ONE HAS BEEN OUT SINCE THEN.

I THINK THE CROSSING HAS BEEN SHOT SINCE THEN.

>> AND TELL ME , WHAT MOTIVATED YOU TO GO THERE?

AND HAVE YOU DONE THIS BEFORE IN OTHER WAR ZONES?

>> SO , I HAVE BEEN TO GAZA'S WARS IN THE 2009 ATTACK ON GAZA , 2012 AND 14 , AND 2021 .

AND I HAVE WORKED IN THE MN, WORKED IN DAMASCUS .

I AM A PLASTIC AND OVER THE YEARS DEVELOPED A EXPERTISE IN WAR SURGERY .

AND AS A PALESTINIAN I AM DRIVEN TO, YOU KNOW, CONTINUALLY COME BACK AND HELP MY PEOPLE HERE.

WHO ARE UNDER CONTINUOUS ATTACK.

AND AS SOMEONE WHO HAS WORKED IN THE HEALTH SYSTEM IN GAZA , I'M COMPLETELY AWARE OF THE SHORT FULL IN TERMS OF EQUIPMENT AND EXPERTISE AND MATERIAL THAT EXIST IN THE SYSTEM.

>> AND CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT KIND OF INJURIES YOU ARE SEEING MOST OF?

IS IT COME I KNOW YOU TALK ABOUT BURNS, NOT HAVING THE RIGHT DISINFECTANT TO RUBDOWN BURNS BEFORE TREATMENT.

BUT WHAT OTHER INJURIES ARE YOU TREATING?

>> SO, THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE WOUNDED ARE COMING FROM THE RUBBLE OF THEIR OWN HOME.

AND 40% OF THE WOUNDED ARE CHILDREN.

AND THEY ARE INJURED BY THE BLAST, SHRAPNEL , MASONRY THAT FLIES IN AND DAMAGES THEIR BODIES , OR THEY ARE CRUSHED UNDER THE RUBBLE OF THEIR OWN HOME.

SO, ALL OF THESE INJURIES ARE EXTREMELY CONTAMINATED , AND REQUIRE SURGERIES.

AND REPEATED SURGERIES.

THE DEVASTATING THING IS WITH CHILDREN THIS IS A LIFETIME WORTH OF RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY AS THAT BODY , THAT CHILD'S BODY TRICYCLE IN THE FUTURE, THESE KIDS WILL NEED SURGERY AFTER SURGERY , AS WE HAVE SEEN WITH