An American nurse, who fled the besieged city and returned to the safety of the USA, describes the horror she experienced and what she saw in the hospitals of Gaza.

Emily Callahan, director of humanitarian aid for Doctors Without Borders (MSF), told CNN that her team saw “children with massive facial burns, in the neck, in all their limbs.’

“Because hospitals are overwhelmed with injured people, they are discharged immediately afterwards”he said, adding that the children were then sent to refugee camps without access to running water.

“It is given to them water for two hours every 12 hours”, he said, adding that “There were only four toilets» at the UNRWA-run Khan Younis Training Center in southern Gaza.

Callahan added that there were children with “fresh open burns and wounds and some amputations just walking around in these conditions.” “Parents bring their children to us and say, ‘can you please help?’ and we have no supplies.”

Callahan said she and her team had to “ask favors and beg friends” for food and water and he believed that they were in danger of starving if they did not get help.

“When I say we would have starved to death without them, I am not exaggerating”he said.

“And in the moments of absolute despair of the citizens, they were firm and calm and just talked to them and told them that they too were in the same ‘boat’, they didn’t have supplies, they also didn’t have food and water, they were also sleeping outside on the cement” he concluded.