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'Khan Younis looks like Stalingrad': British doctor in Gaza describes horror - and has message for world leaders
- On May 19, 2025, Israeli forces initiated an operation and directed the evacuation of nearly all residents in the Khan Younis area of the Gaza Strip amid ongoing hostilities.
- The operation followed intensified Israeli airstrikes and a special forces raid targeting Ahmed Sarhan, a paramilitary commander in Khan Younis, amid prior displacement orders.
- The Israeli military launched over 40 airstrikes causing over 60 Palestinian deaths, mostly women and children, while hospitals faced bombardment and medical teams struggled under evacuation pressures.
- British surgeon Dr. Tomo Potokar and colleagues reported dire medical conditions with severe wounds worsened by malnutrition, describing Gaza as a "slaughterhouse" amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.
- The scale of destruction, repeated displacements, and blockade-induced shortages suggest a deepening emergency with calls from medical staff for urgent aid and political action to open borders.
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The suffering in the Gaza Strip was brought closer in a "today's journal" interview. A British doctor tells how dramatic the situation is.
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We speak with Dr. Victoria Rose, a British plastic and reconstructive surgeon who has been on three medical missions to Gaza since the start of Israel’s war on the territory. She joins us from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where she’s been treating patients for over a week, and describes horrific injuries amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment, limited medical supplies and widespread malnutrition making it harder for people to heal. “Children are pa
British surgeon Victoria Rose treats injured children in southern Gaza. In ZDF, she reports a lack of medicine, amputated limbs and malnutrition.
Israel Expands Ethnic Cleansing Operations in Khan Younis
Palestinians carry their belongings following Israeli displacement orders for Khan Yunis on May 19, 2025. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP—On May 19, a wave of sorrow swept through the city of Khan Younis. Residents were awakened at 6:30 a.m. to the sounds of low-flying warplanes and explosions nearby. My younger brothers—Kareem, 18, and Salman, 14—had gone out a few minutes earlier to gather firewood to boil water for our …
British surgeon working in Gaza to ‘slaughterhouse’ as Israel intensifies its attacks
A British doctor working in Gaza has described it as a "slaughterhouse" as Israel intensifies its attacks on the enclave. Surgeon Tom Potokar compared the situation in Khan Younis to Stalingrad due to the "massive extent of destruction." "Because of the blockade, there's so little stuff getting in. There's no food getting in, so people are starving. There's very little medical supplies coming in," he added. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said…
The heavy bombings of the Israeli army on Gaza of the night between 18 and 19 May also put at risk the work that Emergency doctors carry out in the Khan Younis area, south of the Strip. The same governorate in which our clinic is also located. The Nasser hospital tells the medical coordinator Giorgio Monti is closed because it is hit. Many other centers have remained closed for security issues. Even some of our nurses called to warn that they co…
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