A British doctor of Palestinian origin said medical teams in the Gaza Strip are exhausted, dealing with large numbers of patients, Anadolu Agency reports.

“The medical staff (at the European Gaza Hospital in the city of Khan Younis) is very exhausted, and the emergency department always receives patients with difficult and complex cases,” Basil Badir, an orthopedic specialist from the team IDEALS, affiliated with the Islamic Aid charity organization in the UK, told Anadolu in an exclusive interview.

Badir, who arrived in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec 25 with four doctors, stressed that health teams in Gaza are exhausted, especially those working in hospital emergency departments.

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