Beirut (AFP) – Veteran war doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah treats the wounded in Lebanon amid Israeli air strikes and its ground campaign against militant group Hezbollah. The Palestinian-British reconstructive surgeon, who last year spent the first 43 days of the war treating patients in Gaza, see parallels between the two conflicts. Hamas’s attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures. Israel’s retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 41,870 people in Gaza, the majority of them civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry. The United Nations has said the figures are reliable.
