The paediatric war wounds Dr Abu Sittah tries to heal in Lebanon

The paediatric war wounds Dr Abu Sittah tries to heal in Lebanon In his Beirut office, Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah is going over his operating list for the weekend: 11 children in total, with life-altering injuries from Israel’s wars on Lebanon and Gaza. “There are two siblings who have shrapnel from the 2024 war that is now causing medical problems,” the prominent British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon told Middle East Eye. “A boy with a partial amputation of his foot that needs reconstruction, from this war, and another boy with an amputation.