Some kids were intact & dead others ripped apart but alive

Full horrors of war in Gaza laid bare by Irish surgeon

- BY SEAN MURPHY

AN IRISH trauma surgeon in Gaza has revealed the horrors of the ongoing onslaught by Israel and detailed how he has witnessed children's bodies ripped apart.

The top medic has seen them eating grass and knows some kids lick salt at night to try prevent hunger pains in their sleep.

Dr Morgan McMonagle is based at University Hospital Waterford but has worked in the world’s most active warzones, including Ukraine.

He said: “Working as a surgeon in University Hospital Waterford, I never had any use for the phrase, ‘Wounded child, no surviving family’.

“But [in Gaza], it quickly became part of my medical vocabulary.

“Four months on, and now back home in Ireland, I still struggle to come to terms with the sheer numbers of children who arrived at our hospital every night.