US EditionBriton tells of ‘heartbreaking’ moment he put children into body bags in Gaza
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE, AUG 9 – British medic Sam Sears witnessed mass casualties and treated over 600,000 patients during a three-week deployment amid Gaza's ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis, UK-Med said.
- Amid front-line chaos in Gaza, Sam Sears, 44, said `I’m sorry` as he zipped up a body bag for a nine-year-old, days into his Gaza deployment.
- Amid Gaza’s battered health system he encountered, UK-Med has carried out over 600,000 consultations since January 2024, just days into his deployment, amid a mass casualty incident.
- Tasked with moving the two deceased children into body bags, local medics in Gaza faced terrible conditions with drones and gunfire providing a chilling soundtrack.
- Amid the tragedy, one boy, aged about eight, survived after surgery and is expected to make a full recovery, according to Sam Sears.
- Looking ahead, calls for a lasting ceasefire, with Sears urging a sustained halt, while Keir Starmer highlights the `terrible suffering` Palestinians have endured.
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The Independent (US)Heartbroken paramedic recalls moment he put children into body bags
Paramedic Sam Sears spent three weeks in Gaza with frontline medical charity UK-Med
British medic's heartbreaking two words to dead Gaza child, 9, while zipping up their body bag
NHS paramedic Sam Sears recently returned from a three-week stint in the stricken Gaza enclave working at a charity’s field hospitals, and now shares his harrowing tale
‘Heartbreaking’: UK paramedic recounts horrors inside Gaza hospitals
Press TV – August 10, 2025 A British paramedic has described “heartbreaking” scenes inside Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals, where children arrive with life-threatening injuries and entire families are wiped out by Israel’s genocidal war. Sam Sears, who spent three weeks in Gaza with the UK-based medical charity UK-Med, said the field hospitals were a “conveyor belt of carnage,” packed with patients suffering blast, shrapnel, and gunshot wounds. Jus…
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