AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus:
Doctors from the U.S., who rushed to the Gaza Strip after the war, quickly learn that their challenge goes beyond treating shrapnel injuries. The Americans find themselves operating on patients who fell victim to a 20-month-border closure that crippled the health care system.
A joint team of American and Palestinian doctors operated on Palestinian boy Abdullah Shawwa, 4, in the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Abdullah suffers from a kidney tumor the size of a watermelon and would not have made it without the quick intervention from the American surgery team.
Photographs of Abdullah's surgery
Additional Associated Press Photographs from Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, Gaza on Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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