Doctor in Gaza: "The wards are overflowing"

Doctor Graeme Groom is a British orthopaedic surgeon, who's been travelling to Gaza for many years - and is currently volunteering at The European Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis. We got through to him just before he went into surgery.

Also in the programme: US aviation regulators have ordered the grounding of 171 Boeing planes worldwide after an Alaska Airlines aircraft lost part of its fuselage mid-air; and one day before Bangladesh goes to the polls, at least 14 polling stations have been set on fire.

(Photo: A Palestinian girl who was wounded in an Israeli strike in which her parents and three of her siblings were killed, is comforted by her grandmother at The European Hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 6, 2024. Reuters/Arafat Barbakh)