The chief surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross has given a harrowing account of an amputation his team performed at a hospital in southern Gaza in a video diary shared with Sky News.
Dr Tom Potokar said his team had to amputate the hand of a six-year-old child with “very deep burn injuries”.
He said the boy’s hand had been “charred” and was the cause of ongoing infection which was making him very unwell.
The child remains in a critical condition.
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Dr Potokar sent the eyewitness account from the European Gaza Hospital in southern Gaza.
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He described “another very busy day” in theatre where his team were dealing with “very limited resources, very limited monitoring and really far from ideal circumstances anesthetising patients”.
They are, nevertheless, able to get patients in a position where they can operate on them, thanks to the “amazing” work of his anaesthetist, he said.
Israel has been urging civilians in northern Gaza to travel to the south as it continues to push forward with its ground operations following the 7 October attacks.
However, bombardments have continued in the south.