Inside a Gaza hospital as U.S. doctors help carry out "a small miracle" to save a young life shattered by war

Jerusalem — As the U.S. and its regional allies continue pushing for a new cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, thousands of civilians in the war-torn Palestinian territory have sought shelter in the few hospitals still standing. They crowd in among the severely wounded, as overworked doctors with scant resources try to mend the broken bodies that pour in daily amid the ongoing shelling and street clashes.

Some of those doctors are Americans, treating the war-wounded less than a mile from the front line, and often performing complex surgeries without the appropriate tools, anaesthesia or medicines.

Food is also in incredibly short supply. Aid agencies have struggled to keep feeding the thousands of civilians who have fled the decimated northern half of Gaza to the southern city and surrounding region of Rafah. More than half of a million Palestinians are facing catastrophic hunger, according to the United Nations.