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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the dire situation in Northern Gaza, stating no functioning hospitals remain. Aid workers witnessed devastating scenes at damaged medical facilities, with rows of bodies outside Al-Ahli hospital and injured civilians inside Al-Shifa hospital. A video showed injured patients lacking proper treatment. The mission, only the third since hostilities paused on December 1, aimed to deliver aid. Israel has accused Hamas of using hospitals as co...

Earlier. the world health organization reports there are now no functioning hospitals in the rebel-held section of the city. others say some are functioning, but difficult to reach in the shelling. speaking from the apec summit in peru, president obama held some choice words for syrian president bashar al assad. >> this is a man who has decided that destroying his country, turning it to rubble and seeing its population scattered or killed was worth it for him to cling to power. thats his mentali...

And grappling with ways to coordinate better and less suspicion of military responders such as steve is referring to having the u.s. military go in. and hopefully all of this is going to mean well have less errors made by the responders. the problem now is just simply logistics. you dont have functioning hospitals. you dont have electricity for your operating rooms. you dont have the ability to purify water supplies. all of the basics have been devastated. >> thank you both very much. the point ...

Find the international community trying, gapling with ways to coordinate better. and less suspicion, for example, of military responders, such as steve is referring to, having the u.s. military go in. and hopefully all of this is going to mean well have less errors made by the responders. the problem now is just simply logistics. and you dont have functioning hospitals. you dont have electricity for your operating rooms. you dont have the ability to purify water supplies. all the basics have bee...

Rain and hailstorm which made everything difficult to hear. the bottom line is we did have that initial warning, but it was really hard to hear with the size, strength and breath of the storm. >> sounds like it hit in one of the worst possible places. >> it absolutely hit in the worst possible place in that town that you could, especially with the hospital being knocked out. its a town that has two functioning hospitals. when you knock one of them out you have to move the people out there. its b...

many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> thats right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state o...

We saw tanks being fired. we also saw artillery fire that hit the port area, also hit some residential areas, as well. it is a really bloody battle. the humanitarian situation, of course, on the heels of that is a devastating one. we went to one of the only functioning hospitals in misurata. and its clear that the doctors there are absolutely overwhelmed by the situation. and one of the things they told us is that normally when someone would get a gunshot wound or something, you could treat the ...

More of misurata than the pro-gadhafi forces are, although of course the pro-gadhafi forces have much more sophisticated and heavy weaponry. we saw tanks being fired. we also saw artillery fire that hit the port area, also hit some residential areas, as well. it is a really bloody battle. the humanitarian situation, of course, on the heels of that is a devastating one. we went to one of the only functioning hospitals in misurata. and its clear that the doctors there are absolutely overwhelmed by...

Man actually got off lightly he survived a booby trap left behind by retreating i asked troops german trauma surgeon michelle vilks treats the wounded he set up an operating room in a kitchen in an apartment building close to the front. yard with. no incidents of this was clearly caused by an exploding mines the man was hit by many small pieces of shrapnel in the lower body and has several larger ones on his shoulder and head but if you consider that he set off on mine and hes actually doing wel...

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