hamawy i so much appreciate your taking the time.now the power situation is obviously very volatile where you are your income on eunice working at a hospital, they're bordering rafah. i know you've been in gaza now for nearly three weeks. what are you seeing i'm seeing the patients at this point are getting a little bit less because they're moving farther and farther away from us. >> we're still getting trauma from the people that are getting hurt where we're at. so like location close to the hospital, which there's still bombings, there's one that just happened right when we started talking and besides that, like the people in rafat themselves of a primarily moved to the shore there find to get away. >> and it's difficult for them to get to us because of the roads and the danger zones they had to travel through so we're taking your trauma, but people are shifting away and the trauma patients that you see what can you tell us about them? i mean are you seeing children who is coming in so it is primarily children is still the majority

hamawy: the bombings at night are consistent.n from sundown and intensify just before dawn. usually in the morning get a rush of people, shortly after daylight, as they are pulled out of the rubble and make it to the hospital. many of them have died before they come here. we spend most of the day trying to save what we can. some of them don't make it out of the emergency room. and those that do and make it up to the operang room, we have to kind of rash the resources we have -- ration the resources we have. once we make it to the icu, we don't have the antibiotics, the staff, this applies to perp -- thus applies to provide -- of the supplies to provide them with the type of care we are used to providing. we are having to make tough choices, who do we continue to care for, who do we say that this is basically a hopeless case and we should be able to -- ben: and many of them are children. dr. hamawy: most of them are children. my average patient is around 12 or 13 years old. my youngest one has been four. they range up into their 7

adam hamawy from new jersey, and nurse monica johnston from portland, oregon. >> there's no bed sheets, there's no hand sanitizers, there's no soap. we have almost a 100% infection rate because of the conditions we're in. >> reporter: tonight, israel tells abc news any accredited aid worker can leave or enter gaza, but the u.s. and aid workers fear there is no guarantee for safe passage. aid continues to be a flash point. our marcus moore in israel, where protesters continue to swarm gaza-bound aid trucks. >> these people believe that this aid, this critical aid for those who are starving, is falling into the wrong hands. they say they hands of hamas. >> reporter: and with casualties mounting, the u.s. says nearly half a million have fled rafah. only increasing the need for those crucial supplies. david, last week, the biden administration suspended a shipment of bombs to israel that it feared might be used in rafah. but just moments ago, the white house has alerted congress it is moving forward with a new weapons deal for israel, worth over $1.2 billion. david

let's speak to dr adam hamawy, a plastic surgeon and army veteran from newjersey who joins us from theo in these last two weeks?— these last two weeks? thank you for havin: these last two weeks? thank you for having me- — these last two weeks? thank you for having me- i— these last two weeks? thank you for having me- i am _ these last two weeks? thank you for having me. i am basically— these last two weeks? thank you for having me. i am basically here - these last two weeks? thank you for having me. i am basically here for i having me. i am basically here for two weeks. i've been taking care of patients the best that we can with a limited resources for that we came in basically with suitcases to hopefully supply our mission and be able to provide the care that we needed. we found out that these two cases that we carried were basically supplying an entire hospital, which is basically not even touching the resources that they need. we have limited bed sheets, dressing, breathing tubes are patients that are reusing. it's completely and utterly disheartening the condition that these people

in gaza, palestinian-american doctor adam hamawi says aid of all kinds is urgently needed in rafah, in> when we talk about civilian population, specifically the children, who are really innocent of anything that is going on, i see little kids running around that are basically skin and bones, the food becomes an issue where everyone is having a minimal meal a day if any. >> reporter: the u.n. says more than 630,000 palestinians have been forced to flee from rafah, since israel intensified military operations in the city a week ago. despite warnings from president biden of the risk of civilian casualties. israel's defense minister said more troops are heading into rafah, and that they're, quote, wearing hamas down. the u.s. military expects to deliver about 90 trucks of aid per day from the pier, with the number growing to 150 as operations move forward. >> richard engel, thank you for that. >>> that's going to do it for us this busy week. have a wonderful weekend, thank you for joining us. i'll see you back here monday. you can catch our show online, around the clock, on youtube, and ot