Dr Andy Ferguson spent two weeks working as a doctor in Gaza, at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, helping treat people with severe trauma wounds from bombing, shrapnel and gunfire.

As Israel's forces pushed further south into Gaza over Christmas and New Year, supplies of medicine, anaesthetic and crucial equipment began to run low - and eventually run out entirely in some places.

This is what Dr Ferguson saw.

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