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Even as Israel is intensifying air strikes in Gaza, the first trucks carrying medical

personnel and supplies entered Gaza today, nearly three weeks after the war began.

That's going to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

It is a welcome step, but doctors in Gaza say they're still overwhelmed in an ocean

of need.

NPR is already here.

Dr. Mohammad Mutar is a radiologist at Ashifat Hospital in Northern Gaza.

He says there are so many seriously wounded from Israeli air strikes that the medical staff

are forced to make life and death decisions.

The surgeon are leaving the patient without completing the surgery to save another patient.

Sometimes we find that we lost the patient.

You have to do things that you never imagine that you will do in your medical career.

Mutar says at night, more than 30,000 people crowd into the hospital's rooms and corridors

where they hope they'll be safe from the bombardments.

Yesterday morning, Mutar says his own father died in one such strike.

R.A. Daniel, NPR News.

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