British-Palestinian surgeon travels to Gaza to aid hospitals

Ghassan Abu Sitta, a British-Palestinian doctor, travelled to Gaza on Monday in order to aid the besieged enclave's medical facilities.

Abu Sitta, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, said that he was among the last group of people that was able to make it in via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, before the area around it was bombed by an Israeli air strike.

"Thirty to forty percent of the wounded are children," Abu Sitta said in an interview with CNN. "The devastating thing is with children, this is a lifetime worth of reconstructive surgery as that scarred body tries to grow in the future."