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I think the first thing you notice when you go into Gaza is the sheer devastation of the land,

the mass destruction of all the building, the sort of dystopian, completely destroyed land.

The pictures you have all seen can't possibly do it justice.

Nick Maynard is a surgeon who's just come back

from a month working at the NASA Hospital in southern Gaza. The striking thing about going into

any of these hospitals over the last 22 months is the overwhelming crowding of the hospitals.

Of course we know they're not safe places but people assume they're going to be safe. So as you approach the hospital, the grounds are full of people living there.

Patients and relatives lying on the floor on mattresses, sometimes no mattresses, on the stairwells.

Sometimes people have created beds on the stairwells in the lifts. There's mass overcrowding.

It was Nick's third stint in Gaza since the war began. This time he noticed a change.

But I guess the thing that really struck me the most was how thin everyone was, how malnourish they were,

catching up with friends who I haven't seen for the best part of a year

and barely recognising some of them because they had lost so much weight.

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