A British surgeon visiting a Gaza hospital said she had “never seen so many blast injuries” as Israel ramps up operations in the coastal Palestinian territory ravaged by 20 months of conflict, AFP reports.

“I’ve never seen so many blast injuries in my life and I’ve never seen so many injuries in Gaza in my life,” said Victoria Rose, a part of a British medical delegation to Nasser Hospital in south Gaza’s Khan Younis.

“We’re seeing these injuries in really small children as well”, Rose said from Nasser Hospital’s paediatric wing.

The surgeon added that the large burns she had witnessed during her visit “are very difficult to survive from even in the Western countries where there is no war, and we have functioning hospitals and all the medical supplies at our fingertips.”

“So, here, most of these burns are going to be unsurvivable.”