Basma Al-Aïdi, prosthetics maker

Basma Al-Aïdi, 30, is one of the last nine prosthetics specialists still working in the Gaza Strip, where nearly 4,000 amputations have taken place since the start of the war.

She and the other eight can’t keep up. "I don't even have time to take a five-minute break,” she says. “The number of cases far exceeds our capacity."

The French newspaper Le Monde interviewed her via WhatsApp because Israel does not allow foreign journalists into Gaza.

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