Veteran war doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah treats the wounded in Lebanon amid Israeli air strikes and its ground campaign against militant group Hezbollah. The Palestinian-British reconstructive surgeon, who last year spent the first 43 days of the war treating patients in Gaza, see parallels between the two conflicts. Hamas's attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures. Israel's retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 41,870 people in Gaza, the majority of them civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry. The United Nations has said the figures are reliable.
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00:00It's blast injuries, kids, families whose houses have been targeted, kids with blast
00:20injuries to the face, to the torso, amputated limbs.
00:25There's over 2,000 children who have been wounded so far, and so that's the kind of
00:29work that we've been doing.
00:32I mean, for me, treating children, especially children with blast injuries, is the most
00:37difficult.
00:38And I have a girl upstairs who's 13 who had a blast injury to the face, needed reconstruction
00:43of her jaw, will need several surgeries.
00:46You know, children who are injured in war need between eight and 12 surgeries by the
00:51time they're adult age.
00:53It's just so reminiscent of what was happening in Gaza, and I think that's the heartbreaking
00:59thing is that this could all have been stopped if they stopped the war in Gaza.