Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis — reportedly already “reduced to little more than shattered concrete and rubble” — has been the target of a new Israeli military operation over the past fortnight.
The city is also home to Nasser Hospital, one of Gaza’s few semi-functioning health facilities and the temporary workplace of Australian psychologist Malcolm Hugo, who is managing a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mental health and psychosocial team at the facility.
In the past two weeks, “we’ve had to respond to mass casualty influxes of injured patients on a couple of occasions … A lot of people turn up at the emergency department and you can imagine some of the injuries,” Hugo told Crikey on July 29.
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