\u2018Situation is dire\u2019
\n LONDON
\nThere is no excitement as the camera passes. The children barely glance. What can surprise a child who lives among the dead, the dying, the waiting to die? Hunger has worn them down.
\nThey wait in queues for scant rations or for none at all. They have grown used to my colleague and his camera,\u00e1filming for the BBC. He witnesses their hunger, their dying, and to the gentle wrapping of their bodies – or fragments of their bodies – in white shrouds upon which their names, if known, are written.
\nFor 19 months of war, and now under a renewed Israeli offensive,\u00e1this local cameraman – who I do not name, for his safety -\u00e1has listened to the anguished cries of the survivors in hospital courtyards.
\nHis physical distance is respectful, but they are on his mind, day and night. He is one of them, trapped in the same claustrophobic hell.
\nThis morning he is setting out to find Siwar Ashour, a five-month-old girl whose emaciated frame and exhausted cry\u00e1at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis affected him so much,\u00e1when he was filming there earlier this month, that he wrote to tell me something had broken inside him.
\nShe weighed just over 2kg (4lb 6oz). A baby girl of five months should be about 6kg or over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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