Doctors forced to ration baby formula in Gaza

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Israel's blockade of aid into Gaza has forced doctors to ration vital baby formula.  Dr Younis Al-Khatib, the Head of Gaza's Red Crescent says the situation means they cannot save lives. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This morning I said that we have reached as humanitarians to an iron wall with regard to being able to do anything.

00:14We are out of choices, we are out of corridors, we are out of everything that a humanitarian agency should be able to do.

00:25The situation in Gaza is indescribable, it cannot be described.

00:33When you are talking about total failure of the health system, as a system,

00:41now what we have in Gaza are sporadic services here and there, of medical and health services.

00:48But we don't have a system anymore.

00:50I know it is a desperate situation, at least when it comes to kids and babies.

01:01To know that they are losing lives, and nobody can say how many.

01:05You know, we only count, we only see the ones who are able to get to the hospital.

01:11How many others are there who are not able to get to hospital or try to get some service?

01:18And hospitals are becoming useless.

01:21They are becoming, they don't have the means to address the problem.

01:31Our hospitals are becoming a place where you just go and throw injured people.

01:36And the means in Nasser Hospital, the European is closed, in our hospital, in Khanyuni, Salamel Hospital.

01:46You are there to save lives.

01:49The first thing we train our people is how to save their lives to save others.

01:54You don't go to die, you go to save people.

01:57And if you cannot save people, we are useless.

02:02Unfortunately, we are losing children.

02:08You

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