'Stuff of nightmares': UNICEF Spokesperson details Gaza first aid 'shortage'

Women and children in Gaza have had to have operations without anesthetic, says UNICEF Spokesperson Tess Ingram. “I heard of a 17-year-old girl in Shifa hospital in the north who had her leg amputated without any anesthetic,” Ms Ingram told Sky News Australia. “Also, today I spoke to a woman who had a cesarian without any anesthetic, so it is the stuff of absolute nightmares.” Ms Ingram said the tragedies were “due to a real shortage” of aid and supplies getting into the Gaza Strip. “We have been trying, the UN, to get in as much as we can but there are restrictions on what we can bring in, the process of examining the items in every truck is incredibly slow, so the trickle of aid getting across the border is barely enough.”