Dr Khaled Dawas is a British surgeon, whose parents are Palestinian. He was part of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) emergency medical team deployment to Gaza. (Photo: Photo by Palm Media for the IRC)

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'On death's door': British surgeon on working at Gaza hospital

EU & the World

by Nikolaj Nielsen, Brussels,

Khaled Dawas, a British surgeon at University College London, places a small coloured diary on the table.

Last month, he had returned from a two-week rotation treating patients at the Al-Aqsa Hospital, in central Gaza.

"Each day I would record their names, what I did until the day I left...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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