Australian health worker in Gaza says conditions ‘worse than you can imagine’ a year into war

Sally Stevenson, who is on assignment with MSF, tells of appalling living conditions', with no water or sewerage system and loss of hope'

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An Australian health worker who is helping to manage emergency care in Gaza is blunt when asked what her fellow Australians need to know about the situation in the besieged territory after a year of war.

That it is worse than you can imagine," Sally Stevenson tells Guardian Australia. The destruction is everywhere, as far as the eye can see, it is in the air we breathe. There is no safe place in Gaza. For anyone, especially children."

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