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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 30 hours GMT on Wednesday 11th of October.

Garza's electricity goes off as the only power plant runs out of fuel. Israel continues its

bombardment of the Palestinian territory and masses' troops following the Hamas attacks

at the weekend. In other news, Western Afghanistan's been hit by another strong earthquake

the second in days. Also in the podcast, NATO says it will take strong action if investigators

find a gas pipeline in the Baltic was sabotaged. And the once uncool German Birkenstock brand

that is now worth billions. Just before we began recording this podcast, we got news from

Garza that means electricity had gone out there after the only power station in the Palestinian

territory ran out of fuel. Israel has cut off electricity, fuel, water and food following

the Hamas assault at the weekend. Air strikes have continued with 1555 people dead according

to Palestinian officials. Doctors have warned that hospitals could soon run out of supplies.

Professor Hassan Abu-Sita is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon usually based in London.

He's been working in Garza's main hospital over the past few days and he spoke to Martha

Kani.

The hospital grounds have turned into a refugee camp. People are afraid and so they're

bringing their families to stay in the compound of the hospital as a safe space. And there's

just a continuous stream of wounded. The hospital is at capacity beds and most of the other

hospitals already in Garza are at capacity. Garza has around 2,200 to 2,500 beds and we've

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