Dr Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon with MedGlobal, says civilians returning to their damaged homes to retrieve items or clean up are sustaining severe injuries from structures crashing down. “The buildings are so damaged they’re collapsing on them. Just two days ago, we had a young man – a wall fell on him, broke his spine, and tore his left kidney off his aorta,” he told Al Jazeera outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

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