court s previous orders. detailing inter alia. south africa then rushed to submit another request for provisional measures, it s forth, for fear that hamas s last significant stronghold would fall. hamas itself has repeatedly rejected every offer for a ceasefire. on the 25th of april 2024, 18 states called upon hamas to release immediately the hostages still being held in gaza. they said, and i quote, we emphasise that the deal on the table to release the hostages would bring an immediate and prolonged ceasefire in gaza that would facilitate a surge of additional necessary humanitarian assistance to be delivered throughout gaza and lead to the credible end of hostilities. wattle days ago, on the 13th of may 2020 for the united states national security adviser noted in the same vein that, and i quote, there could be a ceasefire tomorrow if hamas simply released women, wounded and elderly hostages. israel put a forward leaning proposal on the table. the world should be calli
it was very different to the first trip we had to al aqsa. we didn t see a huge amount of trauma. we did some trauma cases, but the amount of trauma was much, much worse before. but what we did see were the most appalling effects of the malnutrition that we re seeing across gaza. severe malnutrition prevents wound healing and will prevent these patients from recovering from injuries that otherwise they would recover easily from. and you get this vicious cycle where they really rapidly deteriorate in their health. they will then die of that if they re not treated. but these are often very young people who under normal circumstances, would recover fairly well from their operations. but because they have such severe malnutrition, their wounds will not heal properly at all. one of my patients, lhama, was an 18 year old girl who had significant explosive injuries. there s no doubt in my mind she would have survived these injuries if she had not been malnourished. very sadly, she d