For several days, the fighting between the Israeli army and Hamas in the Palestinian enclave has crystallized around the hospital complexes. In the north of the enclave, RFI was able to reach a doctor by telephone.

He talks about how, even to treat patients, he only has system D left. “Some died before our eyes, sometimes because all that was missing was a simple medical tool to save them,” Dr Mahmoud al-Shurafa tells RFI. He adds that he never would have imagined working one day in such conditions.