federica lezzi is a pediatric surgeon for the international medical charity, msf, based in deir al balahilometres from nuseirat. she explained what the situation is like there. at this moment in time i am in the field hospital and we hope, with strict collaboration with the ministry of gaza, just after the evacuation of the area, that was also near the area of the hospital. last week, we started to open the services in the hospital. we now are supporting the emergency department, the inpatient and outpatient departments and in a few days, we will start activities in the operating theatres, so surgical activities, and in the intensive care unit. we have heard that teams have had to leave 14 medical sites in the gaza strip and we have heard that the world health organization says 20 out of 36 hospitals in gaza are now non—functional. how can a teams there, like yourself, actually serve patients, how possible is it in the conditions you're facing? yes, we are facing very critical times. we have a shortage of materials, shortage of drugs. we are fighting with few resources. what happened is