My name is Saira Hussein, I’m a doctor volunteering at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in Gaza. I’ve been here for the last three weeks. I was last here in October 2024 for a month, and one of the first things I noticed when I came back this time was how thin my colleagues have become. The other thing that was also very stark to me was the state of the patients that we were seeing. Men and women are just skin and bones. The children that we’re seeing are not healing well because they’re incredibly malnourished. In fact, they are not malnourished, they’re starving. And it’s an enforced starvation due to the Israeli blockade of food. The staff are continuing to turn up to work. They are hungry. They are fainting on the job. I had to put up IV drips on my colleagues because they’re so dehydrated. Israel has taken out of action one of the last desalination plants in the area, further limiting clean water for the population. I honestly don’t know how these people are going to survive – generally; survive the illnesses that they have, for which they don’t have appropriate medication; and survive the cruel cruel injuries that have been inflicted upon them by missile strikes, gunshot wounds or shooting.