for traces of a life shattered. his aunt and three children were crushed to death when a bomb slammed into her home. because the bombing around us was so intense doors and windows were falling on us. we ran to be in a room, she recalls. the last bomb was on this house. she was able to crawl free. the people in this area are mostly farmers but their land often used by militants to fire rockets into israel. in the hospital plastic and reconstruction surgeon is conducting one of eight operations on this day. he first travelled to gaza as a young medical student in the 1980s and has come back regularly every since his task here never ending.