Gaza doctors are starving while fighting to save lives, evacuated medic tells BBC

Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, who worked in hospitals in Gaza for two years, says Israeli strikes have made conditions "indescribable" for colleagues still there.

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So, when he could no longer even look after himself, and the hunger was too much to bear, he took a rare chance to leave Gaza.

"I would never have imagined starving," the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medic said.

"But my head hurt and I had pain in my stomach from starvation."

After working non-stop at hospitals throughout Gaza over the past two years, Dr Abu Mughaisib was evacuated to Ireland in mid-September, along with a group of students taking up scholarships.