Gaza doctors use head lamps to perform surgery amid power outages

Health facilities in the Palestinian territory are overwhelmed and medical stocks are in short supply.

Doctors are using head lamps to perform surgery due to power outages, says Ahmad Mhanna, a doctor at the Al Awda hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.

After more than a month of intense bombardment, hundreds of thousands of people remain trapped in urban battle zones without enough food and water, the United Nations said.

The utter devastation came as Israel pressed an offensive launched in response to the Hamas attacks on October 7 that killed 1,400 people in Israel, mainly civilians. The militants also held about 240 people hostage.