Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has called for an immediate and lasting ceasefire, as healing psychological wounds without it “will be impossible”, Al Jazeera reports.

MSF psychologist Davide Musardo, who recently left Gaza, explained his experience in a statement: “In some sessions we even had to shout to be heard, to overcome the sound of drones and bombs.

“And when there was no fighting outside, the background sound was the cries of children in the hospital. Children maimed, with burns or without parents. Children having panic attacks, because physical pain triggers psychological wounds when pain reminds you of the bomb that changed your life forever.

“Calmer children draw drones and military jets. War is everywhere in the hospital; the smell of blood is unbearable. This is the image I bring back from Gaza.”