BEIRUT — For British Palestinian surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah and his colleagues at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, the wounds he is treating on children are an all-too-familiar sight.
The number of pediatric casualties is mounting from Israeli strikes across Lebanon, targeting the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah, after military operations resumed when the United States and Israel began their war with Iran and its proxies in the Middle East.
At least 687 people, including 98 children, have been killed between March 2 and 12, the Lebanese Health Ministry said Thursday.
Abu Sittah told NBC News on Tuesday that he was treating young patients in the pediatric ward with “blast injuries, shrapnel, rubble, really devastating injuries.”
Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah at a hospital in Beirut, on Tuesday.NBC NewsOne boy “was a throwback to my time in Gaza, who was the sole survivor of his family,” said Abu Sittah,
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