‘I’m crying thinking about it every day’: Doctor returns to Dublin after weeks in Gaza hospital

Dr Mohamed Shaalan: 'I never saw anything similar to this and I have worked in other war zones. The kids come to us with over 40 per cent of their skin burned. You see horrible things every day.' Photograph Nick Bradshaw

“I used to travel to parts of Africa since 2010 to do charity work. After the war started in Gaza in October, I applied through different organisations to go there and volunteer as a surgeon,” explains the doctor, who is based at a Dublin hospital. “I worked from 9am until 6pm each day. Then I took a rest and worked again until 3am. It’s horrifying there. The families are living behind bed sheets, in the corridors, on the stairs. There’s no privacy.

As the hospital was the only place in the area with an internet connection, people were constantly flocking there to contact family and charge their phones. Most of Shalaan’s patients were children and middle-aged women, many of whom come into the hospital “in groups” from the same bombing.

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